While investigating the assassination of a rabbi in 1990, agents discover a Brooklyn-based terrorist cell with connections to Osama bin Laden. In 1993, cell members succeed in setting off a bomb in the World Trade Center, killing six people.
The Clinton administration react to a rise in jihadi terror and operations are planned targeting Osama bin Laden, but result in near misses. A profile of bin Laden emerges through interview footage and commentary from people who knew him.
A portrait of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the mastermind of the September 11, 2011 attacks. A look at the men recruited to carry out the attacks and an examination of missed signals in Washington, DC, prior to the attacks.
F. Murray Abraham
Narrator
Stephen Hadley
Self
Leon Panetta
Ali Soufan
