THE PATH TO 9/11 - ABC - Sunday, September 10 @ 8/7c, Monday, September 11 @ 8/7c

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[Libloather]

"THE PATH TO 9/11"
Sunday, September 10 @ 8/7c
Monday, September 11 @ 8/7c
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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.

[I_dmc]

re: These are the clips that THE CLINTONS HAD CENSORED! The edited-out clips are posted here:
http://traditionalvalues.org/clinton_abc.html

Thank you for posting this. I couldn't get to site with the www in the address bar. Its difficult to say how much of the six clips is actually trimmed, but assuming someone has those, and pvr's the broadcast, it should be possible to restore it to the unedited version. Perhaps wave a chicken, recite a few incantations... ;-)

[I_dmc]

CBS is showing a 5-year update on the film by French filmakers Jules and Gedeon Naudet, entitled simply, "9/11". Apparently the filmakers followed several firefighters for the last five years. Their reflections, etc are shown.

[I_dmc]

By the way, stations owned by Sinclair Broadcasting (possibly others) are delaying the broadcast due to the amount of profanity in the show.

[ChadGore]

[AliVeritas]

Prepare for Abu G2... courtesy of who else, the NYT:

At a Secret Interrogation, Dispute Flared Over Tactics
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/10/washington/10detain.html?ex=1315540800&en=9d420aeaaa531eb7&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

[FreeKeys]

Thank you; I stand corrected.

[sonic109]

Savethesolders web site just emailed me the clips that WILL BE EDITED according to them.
I CANNOT believe that we allowed ABC to bend to Klinton..These clips really show what loosers Klinton and Co were . We should have PUSHED HARD to let America see the truth.Now they've CLEANED the broadcast and saved Klinton a big disgrace. We blew this one in my opinion .We had a chance to let the dumbded down TV population see the truth on the air for once. Shame on us for letting this happen.

[CyberAnt]

Yes, I saw the original - it was very good.

[Libloather]

A controversial television dramatization that alleges former president Bill Clinton, seen here in August 2006, did not try hard to capture Osama bin Laden has roiled emotions over who is to blame for the September 11, 2001 attacks.

BIG NIGHT FOR THE *CRINTOONS! Say, has anyone questioned Mrs. Bill *Clinton about any of this? She WAS there - wasn't she?

[Libloather]

Shame on us for letting this happen.

Tonight's THREE hours are all about the 'Toons. It's kinda hard to edit out eight years of history. Everything will work out for the best. (Just think what it looks like - AROUND THE WORLD - how the RATS are acting.)

[ALOHA RONNIE]

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The CLINTONS were actively on the side of our Terrorist Enemy, Communist North Vietnam, and against Freedom during the Vietnam War.

The CLINTONS remained on the side of our Terrorist Enemies, even now with our own Freedom directly at stake here at home.

The CLINTONS refused 3 Free Offers from the Sudan during the 1990's to give us our No. 1 Terrorist Enemy, OSAMA bin LADEN, on a silver platter before he could hit us real hard after they had already left the White House.


For,
...the Enemy is now Within,
...and always has been.

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NEVER FORGET

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[Libloather]

From RATS underground (too funny) -

rrasile (71 posts) Sun Sep-10-06 11:52 AM
Response to Reply #14
48. Boycott

Let's all get together and stop watching ABCs two biggest shows, Good Morning America and the Nightly News. When those ratings slip Disney will take note.
I don't watch either show but we need someone to post the sponsors names so we can write and bitch.

[ALOHA RONNIE]

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Sounds like the Left has finally appreciated our effectiveness over the years here on http://www.Freerepublic.com.

A http://www.Freerepublic.com that GEORGE SOROS' Shadow Party wants to shutdown in the last months of our National Elections, and then forever after them.


See:
The Shadow Party: FrontPage Interviews Co-Author RICHARD POE

http://www.Freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1692140/posts


For:
...the Enemy is now Within,
...and always has been.

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NEVER FORGET

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[I_dmc]

Of the clips posted on traditionalvalues.org, the only things trimmed were on-the-ground scenes, showing US operatives involved in the operation and a clip of Clinton saying, "...but that they did not include any activity that I've, that was within the definition of sexual relations that I was given in the deposition, I said that I did not do those things that were in that, within that deposition and I testified truthfully to that."

The clips do not include any scene showing Sec Albright phoning Pakistan or Washington hanging up on the DSS agent "Kirk".

Also, the timeline located at http://cnparm.home.texas.net/911/Backg/Backg3b.htm states the following:

May.29 (1998) > [•XX] CIA Director Tenet cancels a plan to abduct bin Laden, less than a month before it's scheduled to happen. The operation called for Afghan tribesmen to snatch him from his compound near Kandahar and to hold him until he could be spirited out of the country. This was the most solid and workable American plan to eliminate bin Laden before 9/11.