Sunday, September 10 @ 8/7c
Monday, September 11 @ 8/7c
V Posted on 09/09/2006 3:33:34 PM PDT by Libloather
"THE PATH TO 9/11"
Sunday, September 10 @ 8/7c
Monday, September 11 @ 8/7c V
Only available on ABC and ABC.com.
Shirley Douglas
Madeline Albright
NIGHT ONE
September 11, 2001. Teams of terrorist hijackers board four American airliners and take control of the cockpits. Passengers and flight controllers quickly learn something is terribly wrong....
February 1993. On a similarly ordinary day, New York is stunned by a deadly bombing at the World Trade Center. The discovery of a traceable van part at the site leads to the arrest of one of the conspirators, and he is linked to a mosque led by the Blind Sheikh, a radical cleric. A valuable FBI informant helps bring down the cleric and his cell. A manhunt for elusive WTC bomber Ramzi Yousef ensues, and he narrowly escapes capture in Pakistan, where he is linked to the attempted assassination of Benazir Bhutto. Yousef travels to the Philippines, where he tests an innovative small bomb that kills a flight passenger and comes close to bringing down the plane as well. He's almost captured again when a fire at his bomb-making lab exposes to Manila police his plot involving the simultaneous bombings of a dozen airliners.
Yousef is finally brought down when an informant in Pakistan tips off a team of agents working in coordination with FBI counterterrorism expert John O'Neill. Yousef's trail leads them to a rebel named Usama bin Laden.
In 1998, journalist John Miller's interview with bin Laden is broadcast, and O'Neill and others in Washington are alarmed by the al Qaeda leader's fatwa against the U.S. CIA field agent "Kirk" contacts bin Laden's primary opposition, General Massoud of Afghanistan's Northern Alliance, and they concoct a plan to capture bin Laden and bring him to the U.S. to face justice. The plan is never approved for action, but the simultaneous bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa push the Administration to respond with an ineffective missile strike that some think merely elevates bin Laden's stature in the Muslim world. Arrests of al Qaeda operatives at the Canadian-U.S. border and in New York on the eve of the millennium provide further evidence that Muslim extremists are bringing their holy war to America.
Stephen Root
Richard Clarke
NIGHT TWO
The October 2000 bombing of the USS Cole sends O'Neill and his team to Yemen, where he runs afoul of the U.S. Ambassador, who tries to have O'Neill recalled to the States. The investigation in Yemen stalls, but the White House, confident bin Laden is behind the attack, continues to debate how to stop him.
In 2001, counterterrorism czar Richard Clarke's warnings about bin Laden are downplayed, as is an FBI agent's warning to his superiors that some suspicious individuals are learning to fly jet aircraft. O'Neill butts heads with the CIA over their lack of shared information, and while intelligence agencies squabble, al Qaeda terrorists, under the radar, continue with their hijacking plot.
O'Neill, his career stalled by an incident wherein he lost his laptop, and tired of the bureaucracy, retires from the FBI in August and takes over security at the WTC. Shortly thereafter, the Northern Alliance's Massoud, who had pressed the U.S. for assistance against the Taliban and warned that bin Laden might strike, is assassinated by al Qaeda agents. Two days later comes September 11, and O'Neill dies bravely, along with thousands of others, in an attack by the enemy he had devoted his career to thwarting.
In the aftermath, the 9/11 Commission is formed to study the events leading up to that fateful day and to form recommendations to confront the threat of terrorism.
Well Shirley Douglas is the mother of Keifer Sutherland and a left wing loony so that casting probably fits. On the other hand I looked over the cast on IMDB and Patricia Heaton is in it so thats a plus.
ACTOR STEPHEN ROOT
LOL!
I'm picturing Richard Clarke at his desk, in the basement.
Drudge is reporting that Clinton's lawyers want this series removed completely. Has anyone else heard more to this??
Will the show this on internet at their website?
So who plays Monica?
Rosie O'Dnnell is the dumbest woman on the face of the earth.
ABC.com shows no change in schedule timing, meaning they plan to trim the showing by the length of the Presidential Address.
I believe so. Click that link above to check it out...
Do you know what time the President is speaking?
Wow, the Apocalypse IS here, Conservatives are Cheering for a Disney Production.
Next we're gonna hear thar the DUmmies are cheering for Fox News.
I just ate. Thanks a lot!
I don't trust anything *Bubba, his so-called wife, or their lawyers say - or want.
Yesterday, Sean Hannity chatted with the writer of this movie and, as far as the writer knows, this movie plays - as is.
I'll believe it when I see it. Hope you're right.
But these Rats are vicious. My guess is ABC will cave.
"Drudge is reporting that Clinton's lawyers want this series removed completely. Has anyone else heard more to this??"
Clinton's lawyers. That would include Bruce Lindsey, who was responsible for reviewing documents before they were sent to the 9/11 Commission. Remember Sandy Berger? It would also include Richard Ben-Veniste, who was on the 9/11 Commission, and was the first to complain about the accuracy of the film. Since he wasn't involved in any of the events, I don't know how he knew it was inaccurate.
Just remember this when you vote.........Clinton favors Censure - ABC will not be showing history as it happened, they will be showing history according to the Clinton Lawyers!
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