Mark Rossini

Mark Rossini is a former agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation who played an important role in trying to track Al Qaeda before its attacks on the United States and before September 11, 2001.^[1][2]

Role in tracking Osama bin Laden, and al Qaeda

The PBS show Nova included segments from interviews Rossini, who described his experience serving as one of the two FBI liaisons to an interagency team assigned to track Osama bin Laden, and his contacts. Rossini described being aware that two dangerous associates of bin Laden, Nawaf al-Hazmi and Khalid al-Mihdhar, had valid US visas, but that his CIA manager stopped him from passing the information to the FBI headquarters^[3]. He was advised that if he informed his FBI colleagues he would be breaking the law. The two men turned out to be hijackers of American Airlines flight 77 on 9/11.

Arrest and resignation from the FBI

Rossini resigned from the FBI after illegally downloading sensitive documents on a current FBI criminal investigation

References

1. ^ "The Spy Factory -- bios". PBS. 2009-02-03. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/spyfactory/bios.html. Retrieved 2009-02-03. 
2. ^ "The Spy Factory -- program notes". PBS. 2009-02-03. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/spyfactory/about.html. Retrieved 2009-02-03. 
3. ^ Who is Rich Blee? Ray Nowosielski, John Duffy, secrecykills.com, September 2011

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