By Fabio Giuseppe Carlo Carisio
Versione originale in Italiano
“In the summer of 1998, Martin Schmidt headed Alec Station, the CIA unit that looked after bin Laden. Alec Station was a creature of Schmidt, his domain. He and his team have spent a lifetime chasing Al Qaeda. The operation was to be conducted with the collaboration of the FBI but it was not. The Bureau had two agents assigned to Alec Station: they had to be made aware of any information in order to report to our FBI boss, John O’Neil. That summer, Alec Station got hold of a hard drive from an Al Qaeda cell in Eastern Europe. Schmidt refused to share the information. On that hard disk were the lists of Al Qaeda operatives and over fifty potential targets. ”