The Path to 9/11

Part One and Two

Two-part drama based on the findings of the 9/11 commission into the events leading up to the attack on the World Trade Center.

On the 26th February 1993 a truck bomb exploded in the car park of the South Tower of the World Trade Center. The FBI, CIA and other US enforcement agencies began a hunt for the perpetrators which spanned continents and concluded in the identification of Osama Bin Laden as the main figure behind this and other attacks on US targets throughout the world. A plan is drafted to capture Bin Laden and bring him to justice. The consequences of its failure would be realised years later in an event that would shake the world.

The Path to 9/11

Mon 11 Sep, 8:30 pm - 10:30 pm 120mins

Part Two

Muhammad Atta and his accomplices fine-tune their plans to hijack civilian aircraft and crash them into buildings in the US. The plan involves flight training at American flying schools. This arouses suspicions in US intelligence, but why are they powerless to prevent the forthcoming atrocity? [AD,S]

John O'Neill ...... Harvey Keitel
Richard Clarke ...... Stephen Root
John Miller ...... Barclay Hope
Kirk ...... Donnie Wahlberg
Martin Brody ...... Muhammad Atta
Massoud ...... Mido Hamada
Patricia Carver ...... Amy Madigan
Richard Tenet ...... Dan Lauri
Condoleezza Rice ...... Penny Johnson Jerald
Neil Herman ...... William Sadler

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