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The Looming Tower Season 1 Episode 10

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00:00Chief of Security of the World Trade Center.
00:13It's got a pretty nice ring to it.
00:16John O'Neill, you will be missed.
00:18The Bureau didn't deserve you.
00:20We were the lucky ones.
00:22Cheers.
00:23Cheers.
00:24It appears we've lost our two Saudis, Al-Nidhar and Al-Hasmi.
00:27I thought responsible eyes were on them.
00:29I thought so too.
00:30These guys are on pace of craftier than we thought.
00:34I-49 just sent over a list of Arabs who attended or are enrolled in U.S. flight schools.
00:40And what does I-49 want us to do with this list?
00:42People inside Langley know about Mid-Hart.
00:44You need to understand something.
00:46If you reveal that intelligence to anyone outside this station,
00:50I will see to it that you are handcuffed,
00:52that you are escorted from this building,
00:54that you are imprisoned and tried for theft and treason.
00:58No, I didn't know who you are, Al-Hasmi.
01:02Abu Jandal.
01:03Is there something you need from me?
01:05I need to speak with Abu Jandal.
01:07I know Jandal knows something about the coal attack.
01:17George, tenant, please.
01:18Yes, George, we must speak.
01:28Durnega.
01:29Durnega.
01:29I have only a very brief opening statement.
01:34I have only a very brief opening statement.
01:59I welcome these hearings because of the opportunity that they provide to the American people to better understand why the tragedy of 9-11 happened and what we must do to prevent a reoccurrence.
02:15I also welcome the hearings because it is finally a forum where I can apologize to the loved ones of the victims of 9-11.
02:26To those who are watching on television, your government failed you.
02:40Those entrusted with protecting you failed you, and I failed you.
02:50We tried hard, but that doesn't matter because we failed.
03:01And for that failure, I would ask, once all the facts are out, for your understanding and for your forgiveness.
03:20Have a good one.
03:43You do the same.
03:43Thanks, bro.
03:44Next.
03:45Coffee line and a name is going to be good.
03:49Good morning, fellas.
04:17Hey, good morning, John.
04:18Another day in paradise.
04:20It's one bird for you.
04:48It's one bird for you.
04:50It's a blaze with thick smoke coming out of two sides of the building.
04:53It's a blaze with thick smoke coming out of two sides of the building.
05:05The result of a plane crash by what's thought to be a jet plane, possibly a 7-3.
05:25It's a blaze with thick smoke coming out of two sides of the building.
05:27It's a blaze with thick smoke coming out of two sides of the building.
05:30It's a blaze with thick smoke coming out of two sides of the building.
05:34It's a blaze with thick smoke coming out of two sides of the building.
05:37It's a blaze with thick smoke coming out of two sides of the building.
05:39It's a blaze with thick smoke coming out of two sides of the building.
05:40It's a blaze with thick smoke coming out of two sides of the building.
05:44No one's heard from John O'Neil?
05:50I'm still trying to reach my mom.
05:52New York's South Towers are jammed up.
05:54It was there, you know?
05:55I know.
05:56I know.
05:56The South Tower of the World Trade Center has just been hit into the plane.
06:01Let's go, people.
06:02You're not on the plane now.
06:04Let's go.
06:04Let's go.
06:05Let's go.
06:05Let's go.
06:05Yo! Yo! Yo!
06:07Come on!
06:13Sous-Fan! Engine Sous-Fan!
06:15Sous-Fan!
06:16Sous-Fan!
06:17Yeah!
06:18Behind cars, you need to return to the embassy.
06:21Why?
06:22It didn't say.
06:35A tremendous amount of smoke pouring out.
06:44It's the result of what appears to have been a deliberate terrorist attack.
06:48Around 9 o'clock this morning, two large passenger planes flew into each of the towers.
06:53North and South towers of the world.
06:56What are they saying out there?
07:06I don't know.
07:07They tend to confirm these reports, which have been growing in intensity,
07:11that a section of the World Trade Center has collapsed onto the street below.
07:15Do you see any confirmation of that in any direction?
07:18That's what we were all running from.
07:20We heard the building coming down, and that's what we were running from.
07:23Literally, people ran out of their shoes trying to get out of the way of this thing.
07:27Well, one can certainly understand that.
07:29So, Harold Dow, our man...
07:30To your point, where is he?
07:32...reports, uh, that he can confirm that a section,
07:35we do not know how large a section,
07:37a section of, uh, one of the World Trade Center towers has collapsed...
07:41Why am I not on that flight?
07:44Now, for those of Dr. Viewer...
07:48I need to show you something.
07:50What is this?
07:59This is the meeting in Malaysia.
08:05On the payphone.
08:06The number I've been asking about for months.
08:09Langley sent it this morning.
08:10And Washington needs to know immediately if this was an Al-Qaeda attack.
08:13They need confirmation, and you're the best man to get it.
08:15I asked you!
08:20You're reputedly above the meeting in Malaysia.
08:22Do you company men have any idea what we could have done with this if you'd shared it?
08:30John Onan was there this morning.
08:32I believe he could have donated and done-
08:42
08:45...
08:49...
08:51...
08:54The most chilling moment for me, Chris, as I walked the streets downtown was a fighter jet flying overtop and literally thousands of people looking up into the sky watching a fighter jet fly across the overtop.
09:22It's something you don't see. The Air Force obviously has been mobilized and is in the air now looking for any other aircraft. You know, we had reports earlier, both from ABC and Chris. Hold on one second. One second. Yes, John. The other World Trade Center building just collapsed. Oh, my God, it did. That is the ladies and gentlemen, the World Trade Center in New York is no more. Both of the towers have absolutely collapsed. Let me go back up to New York.
09:44I want Abu Jam now. Now.
10:04No, no reason for talk. You must leave here.
10:07I'm not asking. I'm telling you.
10:11A commercial jetliner crashed into the Pentagon earlier this morning, an approximately 60 foot
10:34section of this building, which is of course the headquarters of all the military for the
10:40United States, was on fire as a result of this crash, and then collapsed.
10:48All over Washington, federal buildings are being evacuated.
10:51The Capitol, Department of Justice, the White House.
10:59Mr. Clark, we need to leave right away.
11:00Have you reached John O'Neill?
11:02I have called repeatedly, sir.
11:03I just can't get through.
11:04Please, we need to get out.
11:05I'm not going anywhere.
11:07Please, sir.
11:08They're telling us.
11:09I'm staying.
11:10Sir, if you don't leave, then I don't leave.
11:14You have a child at home and a wife.
11:16I don't have either.
11:18I'm ordering you to walk out of here with the rest of them now.
11:21I don't know about a minute.
11:22So, someone let you know.
11:23All right, sir.
11:24We've been watching this here in the Washington Post.
11:37It's going to be a very hard day for U.S.-Saudi relations.
11:41Do you mind if we turn that down, please?
11:48You've given me flight manifests for four domestic flights.
11:52Yes.
11:53How do these tell me that we have a Saudi problem?
11:55I'm looking at names, not nationalities.
11:57We cross-referenced all passenger names
11:59against an agency database for known al-Qaeda.
12:02We came up with two. Both of them were Saudi.
12:04There seems to have been a number of other Saudis on the four planes,
12:08possibly as many as 15.
12:11And do we know that these two or these 15
12:15are responsible for what's happening today?
12:17That is the leading assumption, yes.
12:19But the immediate issue for the administration
12:21is going to be getting our Saudi friends out of the country.
12:25That includes the royal family, the ambassador, all associates.
12:28They're going to be in danger once this leaks out in the press.
12:32Dick, we have to preserve our relationship with Saudi Arabia
12:37for many reasons in the short term to help form a coalition
12:41and to host a staging ground for when we do retaliate in the region.
12:45We agree on that, George.
12:47But if I may, did you know that these two or these 15,
12:59but let's just concentrate on the two right now,
13:01did you know they were in the country?
13:02Dick, you know, as well as I do,
13:04that my hair has been on fire for the entire year over al-Qaeda,
13:08going back to when 43 was first in office.
13:10Before that, this has consumed me.
13:13Four of these flights were domestic,
13:15so these men had to enter the country at some point
13:17prior to this morning.
13:21How long had they been in the country?
13:25I don't have the answer.
13:29But I'll look into it and I'll get back to you.
13:33You do that.
13:35You'll look into it and get back to me.
13:37I'll go to Condi and discuss getting the Saudis out.
13:42But this conversation is not over.
13:44This conversation is not over.
14:14What have you done, Soufan?
14:31I need to talk to Abou Jandal.
14:34I mean, he's our top man.
14:36He needs to let me talk to him.
14:38I'm sure he would if for a reason.
14:40Then you gave me Abou Jandal.
14:43I'm tired of asking.
14:45This is not the way to ask.
14:52I think Brother John is dead.
14:55Today?
14:57In the attack?
15:05How do you know if this needs?
15:07Yes.
15:08I know.
15:09But he was there.
15:11In the building?
15:17I can't reach.
15:37I can't reach.
15:38I can't reach.
15:39I can't reach.
15:40I can't reach.
15:41Come.
15:42Come with me.
15:47Here.
15:48Right this way, man.
16:18Right this way.
16:48In the immediate aftermath of September 11, 2001, you were placed undercover. Is that correct?
16:56That is correct.
16:57The reason provided to us is that a decision was made to shift you from intelligence to operations. Is that correct?
17:06That is correct.
17:08And that's the reason you're now being shielded from public view and the view of this commission.
17:13It has nothing to do with protecting you from public questioning.
17:18Ma'am?
17:19Did you ask me a question? Because I didn't hear one.
17:25Well, let's move on.
17:31Well, the CIA's intelligence files on Khalid Al-Midhar and Nawaf Al-Hazmi, two of the hijackers, on September 11, 2001.
17:42It's our understanding that Alex Station knew of the presence of these two Al-Qaeda members in the United States at least as early as March 2000.
17:54Yet no one alerted the FBI for 17 months. And when the FBI was finally given the files on the two hijackers, those files were mixed in with a host of other files and never highlighted.
18:06Is that your recollection?
18:12No.
18:14Well, what is your recollection?
18:18I walked those two files over to the FBI myself.
18:22Yes, this was your response to our investigators in preliminary session.
18:25But there are physical sign-in logs at every FBI office in the country, including Washington, D.C. and New York City.
18:33Your name does not appear in any of those logs.
18:41I walked them over myself.
18:47Freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward.
18:52And freedom will be defended.
18:56I want to reassure the American people that the full resources of the federal government
19:03are working to assist local authorities
19:06to save lives
19:09and to help the victims
19:11of these attacks.
19:14Make no mistake.
19:17The United States
19:19will hunt down
19:21and punish
19:23those responsible
19:24for these cowardly acts.
19:26Leonard?
19:48Martin.
19:51Terrible, unforeseeable tragedy.
19:54The Pentagon's in...
19:55Unforeseeable.
19:58Some of us have been warning about the seriousness of this threat for a long time
20:02and begging the military to take action.
20:04If you saw these events coming, Martin, you should have spoken up.
20:07I didn't hear you say a word about a bunch of goddamn planes slamming into our skyscrapers,
20:11plunging into the Pentagon, or perhaps I was just out that day.
20:14So why did you summon me, Leonard?
20:16Surely not for this.
20:17You need to come back.
20:28Back?
20:28Where?
20:29Alec Station.
20:30In what capacity?
20:33Four planes were hijacked this morning.
20:35Can we not get hung up on titles right now?
20:36All right.
20:37We'll discuss it later, but I'll need more funding.
20:39I understand.
20:40And I want to double the station's size.
20:42Is that a yes?
20:43Yes.
20:44And I want recognition within the agency, and I hope this administration, that we're at war.
20:48The gloves are off.
20:49No more squeamishness about the use of force.
20:51I understand.
20:52Say it.
20:54We're at war.
20:58We're at war.
20:59I accept your offer.
21:03If we're agreed about the Saudi royal family and the intelligence community clears the names,
21:29please ask the president for a limited lifting of the flight, Ben, to allow one or two 747s in the air in the next day or so.
21:38And both CIA and FBI have agents on the ground trying to nail down concrete evidence linking these attacks to bin Laden and al-Qaeda in Afghanistan.
21:46I've heard from Yemen that we've finally been given access to certain individuals close to UBL.
21:50We hope to very soon be able to give the Taliban an ultimatum, give up bin Laden, or face the wrath of the United States military.
22:03Rumsfeld wants the attacks linked to Saddam Hussein in Iraq.
22:10What did you say?
22:11What did you say?
22:41How did this happen, Martin?
22:47How did this happen?
22:53How did this happen?
23:07We're going to fix things.
23:08We're going to make it all right.
23:11We're going to make it all right.
23:11We're going to make it all right.
23:11What their target was.
23:13We're going to make it all right.
23:14We're going to make it all right.
23:15We're going to make it all right.
23:16We're going to make it all right.
23:17We're going to make it all right.
23:18We're going to make it all right.
23:19We're going to make it all right.
23:20We're going to make it all right.
23:21We're going to make it all right.
23:22We're going to make it all right.
23:23We're going to make it all right.
23:24We're going to make it all right.
23:25We're going to make it all right.
23:26We're going to make it all right.
23:27We're going to make it all right.
23:28We're going to make it all right.
23:29We're going to make it all right.
23:30We're going to make it all right.
23:31We're going to make it all right.
23:32We're going to make it all right.
23:33Oh, my God.
24:03Oh, my God.
24:33Oh, my God.
25:03Oh, my God.
25:33Ali, it's Vince.
25:36I'm calling out.
25:38I haven't been able to get a hold of John.
25:44Ali, have you heard from John?
25:48No.
25:51The station chief handed me surveillance photos from Malaysia.
25:56I've been asking Alex's station about Malaysia for a year now, Vince.
26:00Did you know about any of this?
26:02Oh, my God.
26:04Oh, man.
26:04I didn't know what I knew.
26:12I, uh...
26:14Look, they were threatening me.
26:20They control all the information.
26:21Ali?
26:28Ali?
26:29Ali?
26:31Ali?
26:33Ali?
26:34Oh, my God.
26:43Yes, sir.
26:51Oh, my God.
27:26I don't trust myself.
27:56I don't trust myself.
28:26I don't trust myself.
28:56I don't trust myself.
29:26I don't trust myself.
29:28Hello?
29:29Liz.
29:30It's Bobby.
29:32Bob Ches...
29:34Bob Ches...
29:38Bob Ches...
29:40Bob Ches...
29:46Bob Ches...
29:48Bob Ches...
29:54Bob Ches...
29:56Bob Ches...
29:58Bob Ches...
30:04Bob Ches...
30:06Bob Ches...
30:08Bob Ches...
30:10Bob Ches...
30:16Bob Ches...
30:18Bob Ches...
30:20Bob Ches...
30:22Bob Ches...
30:32Bob Ches...
30:34Bob Ches...
30:36Bob Ches...
30:59Of course.
31:04Are you okay?
31:10I don't know.
31:19Liz, I've been trying to reach John all day.
31:25I never could.
31:28I mean, I gave up after the second tower.
31:33When it...
31:38Nobody's seen John.
31:45Nobody's seen him.
31:49Have you heard from him?
31:56Yeah.
32:03Hey baby, there's something going on down here.
32:10An explosion or something in tower one.
32:12There's just a massive hole up near the top.
32:14I gotta go get people out.
32:16God, I keep thinking of you at 18.
32:18Up there with your parents gazing out the window in New York Harbor.
32:22And listen, as soon as they fix this thing, you and me are gonna go back up there.
32:27We're gonna get ourselves a table right next...
32:29Hey, Petey!
32:30What are they telling you?
32:32I gotta go, sweetheart.
32:33I'll call you later.
32:34Pete!
32:35Let's try to...
33:05Please, why are you waiting for a moment?
33:15If I go, I could go see.
33:16Why do you think you were waiting for me?
33:18Why are you waiting for me?
33:19Why are you waiting for me?
33:20Why are you waiting for a moment?
33:21I'm waiting for you.
33:22They go, he will.
33:23.
33:27I'll be there.
33:35I'm sorry, in the FBI.
33:37I want to ask you how to tell you.
33:39I'm not going to talk about the Americans.
33:41That's the Israeli army.
33:43I'm going to talk about the Germans.
33:45I'll be there.
33:47I don't want to talk with you.
33:53No, we'll understand.
34:04It's okay.
34:08This is Ali Soufan from FBI.
34:10He wants to ask you a few questions.
34:12It's okay.
34:13You're welcome.
34:14Oh, hey, God.
34:20All you need is to ask your to answer,
34:23I am not yielding.
34:26I'm not yielding a few questions.
34:29I am yielding a few questions.
34:30This is the answer for me,
34:33I'm one more than any questions.
34:36Is it all about texts?
34:39I authentication.
34:41Which way?
34:42Why?
34:43I'm going to tell you why.
34:44I left you in the house without a reason.
34:47He left you in the house.
34:48Go!
34:49Go!
34:50Go!
34:51Go!
35:03You're a big fan of Ben Laden.
35:05He's a big fan, right?
35:09Go.
35:12He was with me in the house.
35:15He told me that if he was in the United States,
35:20he would be the first one.
35:22So you're going to tell me?
35:24Yes, of course.
35:26You were always with him.
35:28Yes.
35:29So, what did you say to him?
35:31What's your question?
35:33What's your question?
35:35This is your question.
35:37What's your question?
35:39What's your question?
35:41What's your question?
35:42Do you know the biggest question?
35:44I know everything.
35:46The question is, the equipment is not available in America.
35:51Yes, the equipment?
35:53The equipment is not available in America.
35:55The equipment is not available in America.
35:57It's not available in America without a ship or a ship or a pizza or a macaroni.
36:03What's your question?
36:04What's your question?
36:05What's your question?
36:06The Sheikh Hussein has a big fan.
36:08The big fan is...
36:09The big fan is...
36:10I mean...
36:11...
36:13...
36:14...
36:15...
36:16...
36:17...
36:18...
36:19...
36:20...
36:21...
36:22...
36:23No, it's not.
36:25The men are faithful to God, and they are faithful to their lives.
36:29If they are faithful to their lives,
36:31then why do people want to join them?
36:34You're saying,
36:36why do you want to join them?
36:39The Jews and the Nazis are from the Arab countries,
36:42even if they don't have the Muslims.
36:45Is this a sign?
36:47Is it a sign?
36:49Of course.
36:51Of course, the word is not in the Quran.
36:54Of course.
36:56Is this a sign?
36:58Are you reading?
37:01I read the Quran, right?
37:03So what do you read?
37:07Why do you send an American word?
37:13Do not turn on your preguntas,
37:15because the words are not in the Quran.
37:17Because the words are the same.
37:20It's not true, brother.
37:22It's a tradition.
37:23It's the same thing.
37:24What do you mean?
37:25I told you that the Messenger of Allah is not yet
37:28that he is not yet.
37:31Do you know that the Messenger of Allah is a Jewish man?
37:37You were saying...
37:39...Harouna Abiy...
37:41...and Moses' mother...
37:43...and Muhammad's wife.
37:48Let's get another one.
37:50Let's get another one.
37:53Of course.
37:54Do you know this man?
38:05Good.
38:14Look at another woman, if you are not yet.
38:16Let's get another woman.
38:18Let's get another woman.
38:19.
38:34.
38:38.
38:43.
38:48I don't think I'm afraid of it.
38:53I'm afraid of it.
38:57Yes, I know.
38:59Do you know what I'm saying?
39:01I'm not mistaken.
39:02Islam is the same thing.
39:06Peace.
39:07What's wrong with it?
39:09It's true.
39:10I said I'm not mistaken.
39:12You have to understand that every question I ask,
39:16I know that every question I ask.
39:29What's this?
39:33This is me.
39:35So it's one of them.
39:38And this is one of them.
39:40Hmm?
39:42That's right.
39:44So what's this?
39:48This is a plant.
39:50And this?
39:51This is also a plant.
39:53What's the plant?
39:55This is a plant and this is a plant.
39:57That's right.
39:59Yes.
40:00I got a plant in Afghanistan.
40:03What's the plant in Afghanistan?
40:05What's the plant in Afghanistan?
40:08What's the plant?
40:10No.
40:15Well, you're a plant-based source.
40:18You're a plant, you're not mistaken.
40:21It's three.
40:25If you're speaking to them.
40:27If you're speaking to them.
40:30And if you're talking to them.
40:31You are Muslim, and you are not Muslim.
40:55I met you in Afghanistan.
40:58His name is Nوافل حزمة.
41:01The Kaida.
41:04I didn't see him from the time.
41:07How are you?
41:11The Khalid Mahathor.
41:14The Kaida.
41:18The Kaida is responsible for this.
41:28America is responsible for this?
41:30Afghanistan is responsible for this.
41:32It's a good person.
41:33I'm a mother of God.
41:35It's not a problem.
41:37I know that this is a Kaida.
41:39How do you know?
41:42I'm telling you.
41:43Who?
41:44What?
41:47You?
41:53These guys are in the army.
41:5810,000 people died until now.
42:00The number of killed is the number of figures.
42:03They're all going to kill them.
42:05There's a trap.
42:07This is a trap.
42:08This is a trap.
42:09It's like you.
42:10You don't read the Quran.
42:14Yipe.
42:18Which is another trap.
42:20Line it at the Mole.
42:21The next is a trap.
42:22...
42:30You're the trap.
42:32You're the trap.
42:33So what?
42:36You're the trap.
42:37I'll read your name in the name of God who created you.
42:54He killed himself without himself.
42:57He killed himself in the earth.
42:59He killed all the people.
43:03He killed himself without him.
43:08He killed himself without him.
43:14This is the Quran.
43:21This is the word of Allah.
43:27This is Islam.
43:33This is godly.
43:41There is evidence of all.
43:44This is the word of Allah.
43:53All the害 is written on me.
43:57The person is terrified!
43:59I appreciate it.
44:29I appreciate it.
44:59I appreciate it.
45:29I appreciate it.
45:59I appreciate it.
46:29I appreciate it.
46:59I appreciate it.
47:29I appreciate it.
47:59I appreciate it.
48:29I appreciate it.
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