Role in Tracking Osama Bin Laden and Al-Qaeda
The PBS show Nova included segments from interviews of Rossini, who described his experience serving as one of the two FBI liaisons to the Bin Laden Issue Station, an inter-agency team assigned to track Osama bin Laden and his associates. Rossini described being aware in early 2000 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. He knew 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.
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