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.
LOLOLOLOLOLOL
Or, refuse his request to show his speech.
Here is the link to the letter from Slick's lawyers.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1698415/posts
Her press people somewhere along the line thought it would be a good idea to crown her 'the queen of nice'.
I've never seen a picture of her where I didn't think to myself, "She looks like the biggest b!tch on the face of the earth.."
Ewww!! My Eyes! My Eyes! What is it? It's awful! Please make it go away!
why would you subject all the fp readers to this pig?....as for playing monica...if rosie if under the table..she will only be there if she is munching the carpet!!!!
Maybe 9pm EST? I think ABC will air the speech. From what I've read, the movie will stop while the President speaks. The movie will resume when he's finished.
Or drinking beer in the alley.
Stephen Root is a heckuva an actor.
I already see one historical inaccuracy: Shirley Douglas isn't nearly as ugly as Madeleine Albright.
At least we can have a big laugh next time the Rats claim Censorship!
Pray for W and Our Freedom Fighters
Did anyone just see Michael Scheer on heartland? John asked him if he really felt Clinton could have gotten bin laden. Scheer LAUGHED! and said "his guts should have been laying everywhere but clinton and his staff didn't have the ..... that part i don't remember, i guess the nerve.
If as reported they show that loser Clark ( he of the great apology ) as some kind of semi-hero then it isn't all that accurate
I am not cheering! I am far to disgusted about ABC giving into Clinton and his regime of crooks.
I certainly hope you're right, Bob.
)y guess is that the Presidert's time will not be taken from the film
Humble advertisement...
For all the other TV shows on during the five annual observance of 9-11,
I've set up a thread over here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1698546/posts
I intended it to be the "other than 'The Path to 9-11'" thread...
seeing how "Path" is gonna' be the big dog and get its' own thread(s)
Internet Movie Database for the show:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0473404/
I'm glad to see Donnie Wahlberg is aboard as a CIA operative.
I really thought he was good as an "everyman hero" when he played
Sgt. Lipton in "Band of Brothers".
I wonder if he'll be that guy out there on the edge about to cap Osama...
when Clinton, Inc. gets cold feet.
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