Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - A shekara ta 1998, O'Neill ya mayar da hankali kan Osama bin Laden kuma ya kirkiro teburin al-Qaeda a cikin sashinsa. A watan Agusta 1998, an yi wa ofisoshin jakadancin Amirka biyu bam
cikin sauri a cikin hare-haren lokaci guda a Nairobi, Kenya, da Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. O'Neill yana fatan shiga cikin binciken saboda ya sami ilimi mai yawa game da cibiyar ta'addanci ta Osama bin Laden ta al-Qaeda. Ya shawo kan Daraktan FBI Freeh ya bar ofishinsa ya kula da lamarin, kuma mai gabatar da kara Mary Jo White daga baya ta ce, "John O'Neill, a binciken harin bam din na ofisoshin jakadancinmu a Gabashin Afirka, ya kirkiro samfurin don nasarar binciken ta'addanci na kasa da kasa a duniya. "