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These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:01,073 --> 00:00:06,073 DOWNLOADED FROM WWW.AWAFIM.TV 2 00:00:06,073 --> 00:00:11,073 For latest movies and series with subtitles Visit WWW.AWAFIM.TV Today 3 00:00:11,073 --> 00:00:13,075 [suspenseful music playing] 4 00:00:16,037 --> 00:00:17,413 [helicopter whirring] 5 00:00:22,626 --> 00:00:27,922 [reporter 1] He has a personal fortune estimated at $250 million. 6 00:00:27,923 --> 00:00:31,468 He lives in a cave atop a range of mountains in Afghanistan. 7 00:00:31,469 --> 00:00:35,346 From there, he controls a web of financial, logistical, 8 00:00:35,347 --> 00:00:38,850 and strategic assistance to Sunni Islamic groups 9 00:00:38,851 --> 00:00:42,938 engaged in what they consider a jihad, or a holy war. 10 00:00:43,856 --> 00:00:48,818 ABC's John Miller recently traveled to Afghanistan for a rare interview 11 00:00:48,819 --> 00:00:50,112 with bin Laden. 12 00:00:52,364 --> 00:00:55,826 [Miller] The bin Laden interview was a calculated risk. 13 00:00:56,827 --> 00:00:59,288 Yes, we took chances. It was dangerous. 14 00:01:02,083 --> 00:01:04,584 Journalists put pressure on themselves. 15 00:01:04,585 --> 00:01:08,880 I have to get on the inside with one of these people, 16 00:01:08,881 --> 00:01:11,592 not just looking at another propaganda video. 17 00:01:17,056 --> 00:01:20,517 It was May 1998 in Islamabad. 18 00:01:20,518 --> 00:01:25,522 We were thrown onto a flight that led to buses, 19 00:01:25,523 --> 00:01:28,818 the back of pickup trucks, where there were no roads. 20 00:01:30,277 --> 00:01:33,613 Finally, we get to the top of this mountain. 21 00:01:33,614 --> 00:01:37,326 Everybody points their rifles in the air and starts shooting tracer rounds. 22 00:01:38,494 --> 00:01:40,078 There's a little boy next to me. 23 00:01:40,079 --> 00:01:43,916 He has an AK-47, and he's firing it this far from my ear. 24 00:01:44,583 --> 00:01:45,750 And I push the gun away, 25 00:01:45,751 --> 00:01:48,169 and he brings it back, and he finishes the magazine. 26 00:01:48,170 --> 00:01:50,256 That was Osama bin Laden's son. 27 00:01:53,509 --> 00:01:56,177 One of the fighters says, "I have good news for you." 28 00:01:56,178 --> 00:01:59,097 "Mr. bin Laden has agreed to answer each one of your questions, 29 00:01:59,098 --> 00:02:01,808 but we're not gonna translate the answers." 30 00:02:01,809 --> 00:02:04,144 And I said, "Well, how am I gonna ask follow-up questions?" 31 00:02:04,145 --> 00:02:06,438 He said, "There won't be follow-up questions." 32 00:02:08,482 --> 00:02:12,403 We begin our interview, and we go through the questions. 33 00:02:12,987 --> 00:02:16,739 "Did you finance plots to blow up airplanes over Pacific routes 34 00:02:16,740 --> 00:02:18,283 filled with passengers?" 35 00:02:18,284 --> 00:02:20,285 "Assassinate the Pope in Manila?" 36 00:02:20,286 --> 00:02:22,412 [speaking Arabic] 37 00:02:22,413 --> 00:02:24,497 "Was there a plot to kill President Clinton?" 38 00:02:24,498 --> 00:02:25,748 [speaking Arabic] 39 00:02:25,749 --> 00:02:29,461 [Miller] And I'm sitting there, kind of nodding along with it, 40 00:02:29,962 --> 00:02:33,048 wondering, "Well, what do we have?" 41 00:02:34,008 --> 00:02:35,675 At the end of the interview, 42 00:02:35,676 --> 00:02:38,803 I went back to our fixer in the back, 43 00:02:38,804 --> 00:02:41,389 and I said, "What did he say?" 44 00:02:41,390 --> 00:02:43,267 And he said, "He said a lot." 45 00:02:43,851 --> 00:02:46,519 "We need to get the tapes, and we need to get out." 46 00:02:46,520 --> 00:02:48,439 [tense music playing] 47 00:02:49,190 --> 00:02:52,859 [Miller] Once we got back to the hotel and we had the main translations done, 48 00:02:52,860 --> 00:02:55,613 it was groundbreaking, it was frightening. 49 00:02:56,322 --> 00:03:00,241 [interpreter] We do not differentiate between those dressed in military uniforms 50 00:03:00,242 --> 00:03:03,703 and civilians, they're all targets in this fatwa. 51 00:03:03,704 --> 00:03:07,373 Holy shit. He was inserting a message. 52 00:03:07,374 --> 00:03:12,170 He wanted the interview as his platform to publicly declare war on America. 53 00:03:12,171 --> 00:03:15,256 [interpreter] You will leave when the bodies of American soldiers and civilians 54 00:03:15,257 --> 00:03:17,550 are sent in the wooden boxes and coffins. 55 00:03:17,551 --> 00:03:19,385 That is when you will leave. 56 00:03:19,386 --> 00:03:21,888 This is a game-changer. 57 00:03:21,889 --> 00:03:23,557 [music intensifying] 58 00:03:37,905 --> 00:03:40,407 [clicking] 59 00:03:43,911 --> 00:03:48,373 The U.S. reportedly had the chance to capture Osama bin Laden but didn't. 60 00:03:48,374 --> 00:03:53,378 Captured al-Qaida fighters say bin Laden was at the Battle of Tora Bora. 61 00:03:53,379 --> 00:03:55,421 The Washington Post reports he escaped 62 00:03:55,422 --> 00:03:58,425 because the army failed to send troops after him. 63 00:03:59,218 --> 00:04:02,388 [Henry Crumpton] We had bin Laden in our sights. 64 00:04:04,974 --> 00:04:07,351 We needed to kill bin Laden in Tora Bora, and we didn't. 65 00:04:08,727 --> 00:04:12,815 And now we were pretty confident bin Laden had escaped into Pakistan. 66 00:04:14,525 --> 00:04:17,277 [Tracy Walder] I was a little angry with the administration, 67 00:04:17,278 --> 00:04:20,905 because you just let him go from a place where we had him 68 00:04:20,906 --> 00:04:24,242 relatively contained, and we knew where he was, 69 00:04:24,243 --> 00:04:29,330 to now basically the Wild Wild West of Pakistan, 70 00:04:29,331 --> 00:04:31,791 which is really impossible to find people in. 71 00:04:31,792 --> 00:04:33,126 And so... 72 00:04:33,127 --> 00:04:35,963 [laughing] A little angry, um, as well. 73 00:04:37,256 --> 00:04:39,383 [Cofer Black] Could have ended it and moved on. 74 00:04:40,884 --> 00:04:43,679 Would have given some closure to the survivors in New York. 75 00:04:44,263 --> 00:04:46,764 This one was the best shot we ever had, 76 00:04:46,765 --> 00:04:49,059 and, uh, I'm sorry we didn't take it. 77 00:04:52,521 --> 00:04:55,064 I thought I killed him. I thought I killed him. 78 00:04:55,065 --> 00:04:58,443 I thought, "Well, we're gonna have to get back at this." 79 00:04:58,444 --> 00:05:01,947 "Probably won't be me, but someone else is gonna have to get a shot at this." 80 00:05:03,198 --> 00:05:07,619 Another Osama bin Laden propaganda video surfaced today in the Arab world. 81 00:05:08,537 --> 00:05:13,167 [in Arabic] We are close to approximately 800 destroyed buildings and high-rises. 82 00:05:13,667 --> 00:05:16,627 [reporter 1] In this video, bin Laden does not look like a man under attack 83 00:05:16,628 --> 00:05:17,921 or running for his life. 84 00:05:18,505 --> 00:05:20,758 [George W. Bush] He is not escaping us. 85 00:05:21,258 --> 00:05:24,677 This is a guy who, three months ago, was in control of a country. 86 00:05:24,678 --> 00:05:27,264 Now he's in... maybe in control of a cave. 87 00:05:28,807 --> 00:05:30,476 He knows that we're on the hunt. 88 00:05:30,976 --> 00:05:33,437 And I like our position better than his. 89 00:05:34,063 --> 00:05:36,899 [reporter 1] With bin Laden still unaccounted for, the hunt continues. 90 00:05:37,483 --> 00:05:40,444 [reporter 2] The question remains, where is bin Laden? 91 00:05:44,573 --> 00:05:45,616 [tense music continues] 92 00:05:48,243 --> 00:05:51,329 [Cindy Storer] There was concern that, once bin Laden and other al-Qaida members 93 00:05:51,330 --> 00:05:52,623 left Afghanistan, 94 00:05:53,540 --> 00:05:55,000 he could go anywhere. 95 00:05:55,834 --> 00:06:00,588 They could disappear across the border into Pakistan, into Iran, 96 00:06:00,589 --> 00:06:03,133 take flight and go wherever they wanted. 97 00:06:03,634 --> 00:06:06,302 [woman] The problem is, those possibilities are infinite. 98 00:06:06,303 --> 00:06:10,348 He'd been evading our security for years, even before 9/11. 99 00:06:10,349 --> 00:06:13,643 We were tracking him since 1996. So he wasn't stupid. 100 00:06:13,644 --> 00:06:17,189 He understood what he needed to do to keep himself safe. 101 00:06:18,232 --> 00:06:20,608 So finally, we started thinking, 102 00:06:20,609 --> 00:06:22,403 "Is there another way we can look at this?" 103 00:06:23,946 --> 00:06:27,991 The question isn't, "Where is bin Laden?" It's, "Who might be with bin Laden?" 104 00:06:35,124 --> 00:06:37,333 [Soufan] I was an FBI agent tasked 105 00:06:37,334 --> 00:06:40,336 in investigating al-Qaida attacks around the world 106 00:06:40,337 --> 00:06:42,423 and interrogating its members. 107 00:06:43,841 --> 00:06:47,093 The mission was not only capturing Osama bin Laden, 108 00:06:47,094 --> 00:06:49,930 but also preventing further attacks. 109 00:06:55,477 --> 00:06:57,770 After bin Laden escaped Tora Bora, 110 00:06:57,771 --> 00:07:01,482 U.S. forces were searching for any clues that may lead us to him. 111 00:07:01,483 --> 00:07:03,484 And in al-Qaida safe house, 112 00:07:03,485 --> 00:07:06,071 there was a tape that they found 113 00:07:07,197 --> 00:07:10,117 where bin Laden was explaining the operation. 114 00:07:10,993 --> 00:07:15,079 And every time he's explaining 9/11, 115 00:07:15,080 --> 00:07:18,959 he points at the person who's holding the camera, 116 00:07:19,543 --> 00:07:21,377 and he says, "Mukhtar." 117 00:07:21,378 --> 00:07:23,421 [in Arabic] In the dream, he saw Mukhtar. 118 00:07:23,422 --> 00:07:25,882 [speaking Arabic] 119 00:07:25,883 --> 00:07:27,633 "God bless Mukhtar." 120 00:07:27,634 --> 00:07:29,720 [speaking Arabic] 121 00:07:31,221 --> 00:07:32,556 [Soufan] In the same tape, 122 00:07:33,557 --> 00:07:36,351 bin Laden's son, who was a little kid at the time, 123 00:07:36,852 --> 00:07:38,978 found a piece of a drone, 124 00:07:38,979 --> 00:07:41,772 and he starts yelling, "Mukhtar, Mukhtar, come and look at this one." 125 00:07:41,773 --> 00:07:44,150 [child speaking Arabic] 126 00:07:44,151 --> 00:07:47,196 The guy comes with the camera, take it, look at it. 127 00:07:48,697 --> 00:07:53,743 This tape made it clear that Mukhtar was part of bin Laden's inner circle, 128 00:07:53,744 --> 00:07:59,541 and he could be one of the few people who knew where bin Laden was hiding. 129 00:08:00,626 --> 00:08:03,670 So we're trying to figure out who Mukhtar was. 130 00:08:04,254 --> 00:08:08,509 We did not know what he looked like, because he was never shown on tape. 131 00:08:09,426 --> 00:08:12,596 We were only working off his alias, "Mukhtar." 132 00:08:17,684 --> 00:08:19,937 [Walder] We talk about "bin Laden, bin Laden, bin Laden," 133 00:08:21,146 --> 00:08:24,107 but I felt that, at this point in time, 134 00:08:24,733 --> 00:08:26,317 he was stationary, 135 00:08:26,318 --> 00:08:30,239 that a lot of this work was being delegated out to these henchmen. 136 00:08:30,948 --> 00:08:34,117 They are the ones who are doing all of his dirty work. 137 00:08:35,077 --> 00:08:38,663 He had all the faces of all his little lieutenants 138 00:08:38,664 --> 00:08:40,498 that were all over the place. 139 00:08:40,499 --> 00:08:42,584 Bin Laden was, of course, at the top. 140 00:08:43,752 --> 00:08:46,171 After him was his deputy, Zawahiri. 141 00:08:47,589 --> 00:08:49,840 Next in command were a handful of lieutenants 142 00:08:49,841 --> 00:08:51,969 that were also very close to bin Laden. 143 00:08:52,553 --> 00:08:54,011 {\an8}There was Abu Zubaydah, 144 00:08:54,012 --> 00:08:57,932 {\an8}who was suspected to be bin Laden's chief operations guy, 145 00:08:57,933 --> 00:09:01,936 {\an8}and a mysterious operative known only as "Mukhtar." 146 00:09:01,937 --> 00:09:03,813 {\an8}- [man calls out] - [group] Allahu Akbar! 147 00:09:03,814 --> 00:09:06,399 And so there was a lot of leads that we were pursuing, 148 00:09:06,400 --> 00:09:09,986 and in the midst of that, we thought another attack was coming. 149 00:09:09,987 --> 00:09:11,737 [speaking Arabic] 150 00:09:11,738 --> 00:09:14,282 - [gunfire] - [speaking Arabic] 151 00:09:14,283 --> 00:09:18,704 When al-Qaida escaped from Afghanistan, they didn't go into hiding. 152 00:09:19,746 --> 00:09:22,206 They continued to plot and to plan. 153 00:09:22,207 --> 00:09:24,083 [reporter] The country remains on high alert 154 00:09:24,084 --> 00:09:28,005 after U.S. intelligence heard what they called "suspicious chatter." 155 00:09:28,589 --> 00:09:29,839 [clicking] 156 00:09:29,840 --> 00:09:31,925 [tense music continues] 157 00:09:34,553 --> 00:09:36,345 [reporter 1] A disturbing incident on board 158 00:09:36,346 --> 00:09:38,764 an American Airlines jet this afternoon. 159 00:09:38,765 --> 00:09:41,309 Officials say a flight attendant discovered a passenger 160 00:09:41,310 --> 00:09:43,561 carrying a bomb on the jumbo jet. 161 00:09:43,562 --> 00:09:47,189 There is no doubt this man intended to commit suicide 162 00:09:47,190 --> 00:09:48,816 and take the plane down. 163 00:09:48,817 --> 00:09:52,362 Enough explosives in his shoes to trigger, quote, "a major disaster." 164 00:09:56,074 --> 00:09:58,117 [Miller] Richard Reid, the so-called shoe-bomber, 165 00:09:58,118 --> 00:10:01,579 was al-Qaida's first effort to rebound on another airplane 166 00:10:01,580 --> 00:10:03,248 with another terrible attack. 167 00:10:04,082 --> 00:10:07,918 Could you imagine if U.S. airliners fell out of the sky? 168 00:10:07,919 --> 00:10:10,963 [reporter 2] America is on guard tonight in a whole new way. 169 00:10:10,964 --> 00:10:13,591 [Storer] If you're talking about a major corporation, 170 00:10:13,592 --> 00:10:16,052 and one office gets wiped out in an earthquake, 171 00:10:16,053 --> 00:10:18,262 does that mean the organization doesn't work anymore? 172 00:10:18,263 --> 00:10:20,556 Does it mean they don't move their headquarters elsewhere? 173 00:10:20,557 --> 00:10:21,557 [bleeping] 174 00:10:21,558 --> 00:10:25,687 They had bases all over the world, and these plots were already in motion. 175 00:10:27,064 --> 00:10:29,566 [Soufan] We felt like we were at a dead end. 176 00:10:30,359 --> 00:10:34,112 {\an8}But then we got a lead on Abu Zubaydah. 177 00:10:34,613 --> 00:10:37,865 [John McLaughlin] Abu Zubaydah was someone who was in charge of logistics, 178 00:10:37,866 --> 00:10:40,994 recruiting, planning operations. 179 00:10:41,662 --> 00:10:45,082 [Walder] I view Abu Zubaydah as bin Laden's right-hand man. 180 00:10:45,832 --> 00:10:46,958 His operations guy. 181 00:10:47,584 --> 00:10:50,294 Through a series of intelligence breakthroughs, 182 00:10:50,295 --> 00:10:55,175 we started to develop a pattern of travel for Abu Zubaydah in Pakistan. 183 00:10:58,970 --> 00:11:03,808 We were able to narrow his travel down to, 184 00:11:03,809 --> 00:11:07,104 as I recall, about 17 locations. 185 00:11:08,397 --> 00:11:11,857 And so, we made an unprecedented decision. 186 00:11:11,858 --> 00:11:17,113 We decided we would try and go after 17 locations at once. 187 00:11:17,114 --> 00:11:18,824 [clicking] 188 00:11:20,450 --> 00:11:21,909 [men shouting in Arabic] 189 00:11:21,910 --> 00:11:24,328 [McLaughlin] When the raid occurred, he escaped, 190 00:11:24,329 --> 00:11:26,790 and was jumping from roof to roof, 191 00:11:27,290 --> 00:11:29,709 and was wounded quite severely. 192 00:11:29,710 --> 00:11:31,169 [man shouting in Arabic] 193 00:11:32,921 --> 00:11:34,547 [Soufan] He was taken to a hospital, 194 00:11:34,548 --> 00:11:37,426 and my partner and I were called in to interrogate him. 195 00:11:37,926 --> 00:11:39,553 Abu Zubaydah was badly injured. 196 00:11:40,721 --> 00:11:43,472 One of the medic came over, and he said, 197 00:11:43,473 --> 00:11:46,517 "If you wanna talk to him, you better talk tonight 'cause he's septic." 198 00:11:46,518 --> 00:11:48,227 "He's probably... he's dead in the morning." 199 00:11:48,228 --> 00:11:49,895 - [monitor bleeping] - [siren wailing] 200 00:11:49,896 --> 00:11:51,982 [steady bleep] 201 00:11:52,691 --> 00:11:57,195 I told him, "Death is not an option. Do anything you can to keep him alive." 202 00:11:59,489 --> 00:12:01,491 [high-pitched, steady bleep] 203 00:12:06,747 --> 00:12:08,749 [rhythmic bleeping] 204 00:12:09,958 --> 00:12:14,921 In the hospital, we continued to keep the interview going. 205 00:12:16,590 --> 00:12:19,550 Everybody was shocked that he was cooperating. 206 00:12:19,551 --> 00:12:24,180 And he named an al-Qaida operative who was planning an attack. 207 00:12:24,181 --> 00:12:27,933 I said, "Oh. If I showed you a picture of that guy, can you tell me if it's him?" 208 00:12:27,934 --> 00:12:29,477 He said, "Sure." 209 00:12:29,478 --> 00:12:33,648 My partner had a Sony device. It looks like the Palm Pilot. 210 00:12:34,566 --> 00:12:39,528 And on this device, he had photos of all the most wanted terrorists. 211 00:12:39,529 --> 00:12:43,825 And he went down there, like, you know, hitting the stylus. 212 00:12:44,326 --> 00:12:45,243 Passed it. 213 00:12:45,911 --> 00:12:47,537 So I said, "Is this the guy?" 214 00:12:48,747 --> 00:12:49,748 And he said, "No." 215 00:12:50,332 --> 00:12:55,294 What I did not realize was that my partner had zoomed in on the wrong photo. 216 00:12:55,295 --> 00:12:56,921 So I said, "Oh, sorry." 217 00:12:56,922 --> 00:12:59,507 I said, "Hey, Steve, you gave me the wrong photo, dude." 218 00:12:59,508 --> 00:13:02,302 He said, "By the way, who the hell is he? Tell me." 219 00:13:02,969 --> 00:13:04,596 He said, "This is Mukhtar." 220 00:13:08,225 --> 00:13:09,642 So I looked at the picture. 221 00:13:09,643 --> 00:13:12,771 Now, I'm very anxious. I wanna see who the hell this Mukhtar is. 222 00:13:13,271 --> 00:13:15,607 And it's a picture of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, 223 00:13:16,525 --> 00:13:18,109 also known as KSM. 224 00:13:18,944 --> 00:13:22,697 He was a terrorist we had been tracking for years. 225 00:13:23,365 --> 00:13:27,035 I had no idea that KSM was a member of al-Qaida. 226 00:13:28,411 --> 00:13:29,621 I was totally shocked. 227 00:13:31,414 --> 00:13:35,168 {\an8}But that was nothing compared to what happened next. 228 00:13:37,546 --> 00:13:41,258 I said to Abu Zubaydah, "Since we're on this, why don't we talk about him?" 229 00:13:42,509 --> 00:13:44,553 He said, "Yeah, he's the one who did 9/11." 230 00:13:46,263 --> 00:13:50,016 A light bulb connected all the things in my head together. 231 00:13:52,727 --> 00:13:56,481 KSM had been bin Laden's accomplice all along. 232 00:13:57,023 --> 00:14:02,279 He was the architect, the visionary, the mastermind of 9/11. 233 00:14:04,281 --> 00:14:08,534 [Gina Bennett] Once Abu Zubaydah revealed KSM's involvement in 9/11, 234 00:14:08,535 --> 00:14:13,164 we realized KSM had been obsessed with the World Trade Center for years. 235 00:14:15,083 --> 00:14:17,085 [clicking] 236 00:14:19,421 --> 00:14:21,172 [ominous music playing] 237 00:14:23,383 --> 00:14:25,302 [explosion echoes] 238 00:14:26,011 --> 00:14:28,846 [Storer] In 1993, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed 239 00:14:28,847 --> 00:14:31,807 pulled off this attack on the World Trade Center in New York. 240 00:14:31,808 --> 00:14:34,059 He works with a local cell. 241 00:14:34,060 --> 00:14:36,228 They get the van, they set up the explosives, 242 00:14:36,229 --> 00:14:38,481 and then they put a bomb under the World Trade Center. 243 00:14:40,150 --> 00:14:45,195 He thought the structure would move enough to shake and even topple. 244 00:14:45,196 --> 00:14:46,947 He wanted it to fall down. 245 00:14:46,948 --> 00:14:50,201 He said later he wanted to kill 100,000 people. 246 00:14:50,785 --> 00:14:52,912 If they just had a little bit more explosives 247 00:14:52,913 --> 00:14:55,998 and moved the truck one inch to the right or left, 248 00:14:55,999 --> 00:14:57,666 they might've toppled the building. 249 00:14:57,667 --> 00:14:58,710 It was that close. 250 00:15:02,881 --> 00:15:08,011 Khalid Shaikh Mohammed just never rested until he could bring those towers down. 251 00:15:09,262 --> 00:15:13,140 [Miller] After the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center, 252 00:15:13,141 --> 00:15:14,975 {\an8}Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, 253 00:15:14,976 --> 00:15:17,728 he had a bag full of plots and ideas, 254 00:15:17,729 --> 00:15:20,148 but he didn't have the money to make it happen. 255 00:15:21,274 --> 00:15:24,319 He finds his way to Afghanistan and into al-Qaida, 256 00:15:24,819 --> 00:15:27,197 and he finds his way back to Osama bin Laden, 257 00:15:27,948 --> 00:15:30,909 and he pitches this idea of, 258 00:15:31,993 --> 00:15:34,787 "We'll target the World Trade Center, to take care of that, 259 00:15:34,788 --> 00:15:37,582 because we tried it before and it's still standing." 260 00:15:38,249 --> 00:15:41,127 But now the plan kept getting bigger. 261 00:15:41,711 --> 00:15:45,423 "We'll target the Capitol. We'll target the Pentagon." 262 00:15:46,007 --> 00:15:50,261 "We will set America back on its heels like no one has ever done." 263 00:15:51,262 --> 00:15:54,932 If there was a keystone individual in this whole plot, 264 00:15:54,933 --> 00:15:56,809 it was Khalid Shaikh Mohammed. 265 00:15:56,810 --> 00:15:59,895 Bin Laden was the inspiration and the charismatic leader, 266 00:15:59,896 --> 00:16:03,400 but Khalid Shaikh Mohammed was the designer, the architect. 267 00:16:04,234 --> 00:16:06,569 [Soufan] After 9/11, he went into hiding. 268 00:16:07,570 --> 00:16:13,534 Through a series of classified spy operations, 269 00:16:13,535 --> 00:16:16,579 we learned that he was in Rawalpindi in Pakistan. 270 00:16:17,414 --> 00:16:21,334 That activated our operation to capture Khalid Shaikh Mohammed. 271 00:16:21,918 --> 00:16:23,420 [clicking] 272 00:16:23,920 --> 00:16:25,130 [horns honking] 273 00:16:28,091 --> 00:16:32,094 [reporter 1] CIA and Pakistani agents hit the two-story villa hard, 274 00:16:32,095 --> 00:16:35,264 bashing in doors and sweeping up anything of interest. 275 00:16:35,265 --> 00:16:38,684 Family members said everyone was asleep when they came. 276 00:16:38,685 --> 00:16:41,353 Khalid Shaikh Mohammed was caught in his underwear. 277 00:16:41,354 --> 00:16:42,730 It was his birthday. 278 00:16:42,731 --> 00:16:46,150 [reporter 2] Khalid Shaikh Mohammed is in American hands tonight. 279 00:16:46,151 --> 00:16:49,111 [reporter 3] Al-Qaida's top planner is now out of action. 280 00:16:49,112 --> 00:16:51,281 [Morell] Bin Laden and KSM were close. 281 00:16:52,699 --> 00:16:56,036 When we caught KSM, we thought it might take us to bin Laden. 282 00:16:56,828 --> 00:17:00,081 It was a very significant capture. 283 00:17:00,582 --> 00:17:02,083 The most significant to date. 284 00:17:03,585 --> 00:17:08,048 [Miller] This is the first time the CIA had a serious lead on bin Laden. 285 00:17:09,466 --> 00:17:11,885 And expectations were big. 286 00:17:19,225 --> 00:17:21,894 [McLaughlin] The capture of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed was very important, 287 00:17:21,895 --> 00:17:24,731 because it disrupted things he was planning, 288 00:17:25,815 --> 00:17:31,529 and we learned from him about operations that were plans in process. 289 00:17:33,907 --> 00:17:36,575 What we learned from all the intelligence that we gathered 290 00:17:36,576 --> 00:17:41,039 was that bin Laden was micromanaging the organization. 291 00:17:41,873 --> 00:17:47,462 He was approving assignments. He was deeply involved in attack planning. 292 00:17:48,922 --> 00:17:52,258 He was very much the active head of al-Qaida. 293 00:17:54,594 --> 00:17:56,971 And their capabilities were rebounding. 294 00:17:57,806 --> 00:18:00,892 I was concerned about additional attacks. 295 00:18:03,770 --> 00:18:05,313 [clicking] 296 00:18:08,274 --> 00:18:10,276 [crowd clamoring] 297 00:18:11,778 --> 00:18:13,779 [reporter 1] A van full of explosives 298 00:18:13,780 --> 00:18:16,115 detonated during Sabbath prayers this morning. 299 00:18:16,116 --> 00:18:19,953 A group that says it's tied to al-Qaida claimed responsibility. 300 00:18:21,329 --> 00:18:24,290 It felt like a ticking time bomb situation 301 00:18:25,041 --> 00:18:27,627 'cause homeland was absolutely on their list 302 00:18:28,211 --> 00:18:30,296 of places they wanted to attack. 303 00:18:30,880 --> 00:18:33,383 [clicking] 304 00:18:35,510 --> 00:18:38,138 [Walder] I was sitting at my desk in headquarters, 305 00:18:38,721 --> 00:18:41,683 and I just heard, "Fuck you!" 306 00:18:43,476 --> 00:18:44,978 They blew up a train in Spain. 307 00:18:46,229 --> 00:18:48,939 [Bush] These are nothing but cold-blooded killers. They... 308 00:18:48,940 --> 00:18:51,608 They do not value life the way we value life 309 00:18:51,609 --> 00:18:53,068 in the civilized world. 310 00:18:53,069 --> 00:18:56,114 Bin Laden basically franchised himself. 311 00:18:57,198 --> 00:19:00,118 You start to have these al-Qaida groups happening everywhere. 312 00:19:00,618 --> 00:19:03,370 There was only one al-Qaida on 9/11. 313 00:19:03,371 --> 00:19:05,581 All of a sudden, you have all of these groups. 314 00:19:05,582 --> 00:19:07,666 [Walder] Like, "When's something gonna happen next?" 315 00:19:07,667 --> 00:19:10,420 "When's the next attack? When's the next attack?" 316 00:19:11,004 --> 00:19:12,671 [clicking] 317 00:19:12,672 --> 00:19:17,342 [Morell] I was in London in a meeting, and somebody walked into the room. 318 00:19:17,343 --> 00:19:20,262 "Multiple attacks in London. Dozens killed." 319 00:19:20,263 --> 00:19:24,766 [reporter 1] A series of bombs exploded in the London mass transit system 320 00:19:24,767 --> 00:19:28,103 during the morning rush hour, wounding more than 700. 321 00:19:28,104 --> 00:19:30,480 [Miller] Bin Laden was creating this fear. 322 00:19:30,481 --> 00:19:33,525 "You should be afraid on your trains, on your buses, 323 00:19:33,526 --> 00:19:36,403 in your streets, at your hotels." 324 00:19:36,404 --> 00:19:38,822 [Storer] There was attack after attack, 325 00:19:38,823 --> 00:19:43,786 and we knew that there could be another attack at any time, anywhere. 326 00:19:44,579 --> 00:19:47,415 [Bennett] He wasn't stopping or slowing down. 327 00:19:48,249 --> 00:19:49,751 We had to find bin Laden. 328 00:19:51,252 --> 00:19:54,422 He was this cult of personality. He was the key to everything. 329 00:19:55,882 --> 00:20:00,345 [Morell] KSM provided us information about al-Qaida as an organization. 330 00:20:02,847 --> 00:20:06,100 But there was one thing that he wouldn't talk about. 331 00:20:11,773 --> 00:20:15,985 KSM was protecting bin Laden as fully as he could. 332 00:20:16,569 --> 00:20:19,072 [clicking] 333 00:20:19,989 --> 00:20:22,699 After 9/11, one of the things that happened pretty early 334 00:20:22,700 --> 00:20:25,912 was discussion about doing what 335 00:20:26,829 --> 00:20:29,123 came to be called "enhanced interrogation." 336 00:20:29,874 --> 00:20:32,501 The U.S. government built a detention center 337 00:20:32,502 --> 00:20:36,214 in our Guantanamo Bay military facility on the island of Cuba. 338 00:20:37,257 --> 00:20:43,263 They did that to interrogate prisoners outside the civilian legal system. 339 00:20:44,180 --> 00:20:46,556 Now, why wouldn't you interrogate them on U.S. soil? 340 00:20:46,557 --> 00:20:49,686 Well, because you wanna do some stuff that wouldn't be allowed. 341 00:20:58,486 --> 00:21:02,489 These were not soldiers. These were the hardened top leaders of al-Qaida. 342 00:21:02,490 --> 00:21:07,787 When you had them in your possession and they refused to offer any information, 343 00:21:08,371 --> 00:21:10,789 the thought was that some coercive measures 344 00:21:10,790 --> 00:21:14,627 might, uh... help unlock some of that information. 345 00:21:17,338 --> 00:21:18,423 [door lock buzzes] 346 00:21:20,675 --> 00:21:24,761 [Storer] The emotional atmosphere in the office was revenge. 347 00:21:24,762 --> 00:21:26,847 These people deserve whatever they get. 348 00:21:26,848 --> 00:21:28,808 The gloves are off. 349 00:21:29,517 --> 00:21:30,852 No holds barred. 350 00:21:31,769 --> 00:21:33,770 [Soufan] Enhanced interrogation techniques 351 00:21:33,771 --> 00:21:37,608 incorporate physical and psychological pressure on the detainee. 352 00:21:38,192 --> 00:21:42,655 These techniques include slapping, insults, stress positions, 353 00:21:43,156 --> 00:21:44,407 and sleep deprivation. 354 00:21:45,074 --> 00:21:48,201 [McLaughlin] About 100 hours of sleep deprivation 355 00:21:48,202 --> 00:21:50,704 was a normal part of interrogation techniques. 356 00:21:50,705 --> 00:21:52,415 [loud guitar music blaring] 357 00:21:56,586 --> 00:21:58,588 [Soufan] When a detainee was not cooperating, 358 00:21:59,589 --> 00:22:02,799 other enhanced interrogation techniques were introduced 359 00:22:02,800 --> 00:22:04,301 to decrease their resistance. 360 00:22:04,302 --> 00:22:06,470 These include death threats, 361 00:22:06,471 --> 00:22:08,347 cramped confinement, 362 00:22:08,348 --> 00:22:10,682 and the infamous waterboarding, 363 00:22:10,683 --> 00:22:14,854 where the detainee experiences drowning and imminent death. 364 00:22:16,356 --> 00:22:19,067 This is apeshit. This has... this has gone crazy. 365 00:22:19,734 --> 00:22:21,194 We can't do this, 366 00:22:21,903 --> 00:22:23,321 as... as the U.S. 367 00:22:26,032 --> 00:22:29,868 [Storer] Torturing someone to get a piece of the puzzle 368 00:22:29,869 --> 00:22:32,496 in order to stop attacks down the road? 369 00:22:32,497 --> 00:22:33,498 No. 370 00:22:34,499 --> 00:22:38,543 No. And I know as an analyst 371 00:22:38,544 --> 00:22:43,216 that there's plenty of other sources of information and ways to do that. 372 00:22:45,968 --> 00:22:47,719 I went to my management and I said, 373 00:22:47,720 --> 00:22:50,014 "I'm not gonna have anything to do with that, 374 00:22:51,057 --> 00:22:53,935 because I think that this is morally wrong." 375 00:22:58,564 --> 00:23:01,525 [Soufan] It's an issue between people who wanted to do the right thing, 376 00:23:01,526 --> 00:23:04,153 people in the field who understand the field, 377 00:23:04,737 --> 00:23:09,909 and people in Washington who wanna be warriors behind their desks, 378 00:23:10,576 --> 00:23:13,996 and the only fear they have in the war on terrorism is a paper cut. 379 00:23:15,039 --> 00:23:17,833 KSM, by the time he was arrested, 380 00:23:17,834 --> 00:23:21,129 he was in charge of all global operations for al-Qaida. 381 00:23:21,629 --> 00:23:23,381 He knew exactly where bin Laden was. 382 00:23:24,799 --> 00:23:28,052 How many cells did we take down because of KSM? Zero. 383 00:23:28,886 --> 00:23:30,638 He didn't give where bin Laden was. 384 00:23:32,223 --> 00:23:36,018 So sleep deprivation, waterboarding. 385 00:23:37,687 --> 00:23:38,688 For what? 386 00:23:40,148 --> 00:23:41,649 To feel that we're tough? 387 00:23:42,233 --> 00:23:44,152 Being tough is being successful. 388 00:23:45,528 --> 00:23:48,698 Being tough is winning your war. 389 00:23:50,366 --> 00:23:54,494 Being tough is not breaking shit and being like in a... bull in a china shop. 390 00:23:54,495 --> 00:23:56,914 That's not being tough. That's being stupid. 391 00:23:59,375 --> 00:24:01,084 Unfortunately, what was going on 392 00:24:01,085 --> 00:24:04,005 with the way we were executing the war on terror, 393 00:24:04,630 --> 00:24:07,383 I just decided to get the hell out of the way. 394 00:24:07,884 --> 00:24:09,260 I could not follow. 395 00:24:10,344 --> 00:24:11,429 That's why I left. 396 00:24:16,100 --> 00:24:17,810 [tense music playing] 397 00:24:19,812 --> 00:24:23,941 This was a difficult decision for anyone to have to make. 398 00:24:25,735 --> 00:24:26,902 On the one hand, 399 00:24:26,903 --> 00:24:31,240 it's not good to, you know, inflict coercion on other human beings. 400 00:24:31,866 --> 00:24:35,368 On the other hand, it's unethical. 401 00:24:35,369 --> 00:24:37,370 If you don't get this information, 402 00:24:37,371 --> 00:24:41,249 then you have the blood of hundreds, thousands of Americans on your hands. 403 00:24:41,250 --> 00:24:44,169 - [crowd whistling and applauding] - [band playing] 404 00:24:44,170 --> 00:24:46,589 You're torn between two things that are 405 00:24:47,590 --> 00:24:51,302 right at some level, but in contradiction. 406 00:24:52,136 --> 00:24:53,179 And, uh... 407 00:24:54,055 --> 00:24:57,432 most people who were at the CIA at this time, their attitude is, 408 00:24:57,433 --> 00:25:01,478 "We hope no one else has to make such decisions in the future." 409 00:25:01,479 --> 00:25:04,022 [clicking] 410 00:25:04,023 --> 00:25:07,901 [Anderson Cooper] Five years since 9/11, and Osama bin Laden is still wanted. 411 00:25:07,902 --> 00:25:11,572 Officials say they're making the country safer from an attack, but are they? 412 00:25:12,740 --> 00:25:14,616 Bin Laden was like a unicorn. 413 00:25:14,617 --> 00:25:18,036 A lot of people were claiming to know where bin Laden was 414 00:25:18,037 --> 00:25:21,749 because the reward for justice on bin Laden was $25 million. 415 00:25:23,000 --> 00:25:25,669 And we were left with a lot of really bad sources 416 00:25:25,670 --> 00:25:28,713 coming in and telling us where he might be, 417 00:25:28,714 --> 00:25:30,924 and we were running down rabbit holes every time. 418 00:25:30,925 --> 00:25:34,719 "Bin Laden is sick. Bin Laden is dead. Bin Laden is on dialysis." 419 00:25:34,720 --> 00:25:37,597 All of that was in the intelligence stream, 420 00:25:37,598 --> 00:25:40,433 but that's because they were putting out enormous resources, 421 00:25:40,434 --> 00:25:42,478 and nothing was close to panning out. 422 00:25:43,563 --> 00:25:48,400 I had been following these fragments of dots, 423 00:25:48,401 --> 00:25:52,404 these clues that shift and disappear, for so long, 424 00:25:52,405 --> 00:25:53,990 and we haven't found him. 425 00:25:55,825 --> 00:26:01,330 Though we never stopped looking for bin Laden, the hunt basically stalled. 426 00:26:01,831 --> 00:26:04,125 [Morell] It was a complicated situation. 427 00:26:05,334 --> 00:26:07,502 There were plots against New York, 428 00:26:07,503 --> 00:26:09,754 including plots against the New York subway. 429 00:26:09,755 --> 00:26:12,799 A plot to fly ten to 15 airliners, 430 00:26:12,800 --> 00:26:15,344 blowing them up over the continental United States. 431 00:26:17,346 --> 00:26:19,556 [Miller] Bin Laden was in search of, 432 00:26:19,557 --> 00:26:23,311 "What's my next 9/11? What will exceed 9/11?" 433 00:26:24,145 --> 00:26:25,562 [clicking] 434 00:26:25,563 --> 00:26:27,188 [Morell] There was reporting 435 00:26:27,189 --> 00:26:30,610 about al-Qaida's interest in weapons of mass destruction, 436 00:26:31,319 --> 00:26:35,448 most importantly in its interest in acquiring nuclear weapons. 437 00:26:36,157 --> 00:26:39,826 [Walder] He was looking not just at radioactive material, 438 00:26:39,827 --> 00:26:42,621 but then also crude toxins and poisons. 439 00:26:42,622 --> 00:26:43,997 So, anthrax. 440 00:26:43,998 --> 00:26:48,126 [McLaughlin] We knew that bin Laden had met with nuclear scientists 441 00:26:48,127 --> 00:26:49,753 in Pakistan, 442 00:26:49,754 --> 00:26:51,589 and when they said to him, 443 00:26:52,214 --> 00:26:54,549 "Look, the long pole in the tent is obtaining 444 00:26:54,550 --> 00:26:58,136 the nuclear explosive material, enriched uranium and such," 445 00:26:58,137 --> 00:27:00,890 he had said to them, "How do you know we don't have it?" 446 00:27:02,850 --> 00:27:05,603 [man] It was a high priority for the al-Qaida leadership 447 00:27:06,103 --> 00:27:09,356 {\an8}that it was being driven by bin Laden personally, 448 00:27:09,357 --> 00:27:10,649 {\an8}and that there were real people 449 00:27:10,650 --> 00:27:13,486 {\an8}and real efforts around the world associated with it. 450 00:27:14,987 --> 00:27:18,865 They needed something that was bigger and better than 9/11. 451 00:27:18,866 --> 00:27:20,742 You can't repeat yourself as a terrorist group. 452 00:27:20,743 --> 00:27:22,495 You always have to move to the next level. 453 00:27:24,955 --> 00:27:28,334 So the vision was what he described as the American Hiroshima... 454 00:27:30,503 --> 00:27:35,591 where this bomb crowned their efforts to defeat the United States. 455 00:27:39,345 --> 00:27:41,763 [clicking] 456 00:27:41,764 --> 00:27:43,598 [radio static crackling] 457 00:27:43,599 --> 00:27:45,267 [in Arabic] People of America, 458 00:27:45,768 --> 00:27:49,979 we'll continue to escalate the fighting and killing against you. 459 00:27:49,980 --> 00:27:53,149 That's our duty, and our brothers are doing it. 460 00:27:53,150 --> 00:27:54,984 [reporter 1] "I'm alive and I'm well." 461 00:27:54,985 --> 00:27:58,780 That's the main message of a new videotape from Osama bin Laden, 462 00:27:58,781 --> 00:28:00,615 the first in nearly three years. 463 00:28:00,616 --> 00:28:04,703 [reporter 2] A radical Islamic website says a new video is coming from him, 464 00:28:04,704 --> 00:28:07,789 timed to coincide with next week's anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. 465 00:28:07,790 --> 00:28:10,542 [reporter 3] If it turns out to be real, that he's still alive 466 00:28:10,543 --> 00:28:12,585 and secure enough to be making videos... 467 00:28:12,586 --> 00:28:14,796 [Bennett] It had been six years since 9/11, 468 00:28:14,797 --> 00:28:17,425 and we had no leads, nothing. 469 00:28:18,843 --> 00:28:21,344 Every 9/11 anniversary, 470 00:28:21,345 --> 00:28:26,142 the only thing you could think about is that bin Laden is still out there. 471 00:28:26,934 --> 00:28:30,980 That was... just the knife in your back. 472 00:28:31,647 --> 00:28:33,189 [Storer] We just wanted to stop it, 473 00:28:33,190 --> 00:28:36,609 and it was so frustrating that we couldn't. 474 00:28:36,610 --> 00:28:38,486 It became obsessive. 475 00:28:38,487 --> 00:28:41,449 People were working just all the time, 476 00:28:42,074 --> 00:28:43,950 and yet we were constantly insulted. 477 00:28:43,951 --> 00:28:47,495 We have an intelligence network that is so dumb, 478 00:28:47,496 --> 00:28:49,539 they could throw themselves at the ground and miss. 479 00:28:49,540 --> 00:28:52,834 [man] There's been a complete intelligence failure here. 480 00:28:52,835 --> 00:28:54,878 [Storer] The media was saying we had failed, 481 00:28:54,879 --> 00:28:57,172 and so other people had to be brought in to run the center 482 00:28:57,173 --> 00:28:58,923 because we were a bunch of failures. 483 00:28:58,924 --> 00:29:01,801 The intelligence failures that may have led 484 00:29:01,802 --> 00:29:03,386 to the September 11th attacks... 485 00:29:03,387 --> 00:29:07,182 The commission itself is going to have to sort through all of this finger-pointing 486 00:29:07,183 --> 00:29:08,850 and come up with a report in July 487 00:29:08,851 --> 00:29:11,145 saying who should've known what and when. 488 00:29:11,729 --> 00:29:14,690 [clicking] 489 00:29:16,859 --> 00:29:19,278 [Storer] People asking questions as if we were guilty, 490 00:29:19,779 --> 00:29:22,531 and of course we all felt guilty, so that didn't help. 491 00:29:23,282 --> 00:29:25,868 Whether there was anything else you could've done or not, 492 00:29:26,368 --> 00:29:28,912 you still... you question yourself all the time. 493 00:29:28,913 --> 00:29:31,290 "Is there anything I could've done differently?" 494 00:29:31,874 --> 00:29:34,083 [reporter 1] The commission investigating the 9/11 attacks 495 00:29:34,084 --> 00:29:36,085 came out firing this morning. 496 00:29:36,086 --> 00:29:38,880 [reporter 2] Specifically, the CIA's handling of the al-Qaida threat 497 00:29:38,881 --> 00:29:40,716 before September 11. 498 00:29:41,300 --> 00:29:45,595 {\an8}[Bennett] The only time I got angry was really after the 9/11 Commission, 499 00:29:45,596 --> 00:29:47,348 when they blamed us. 500 00:29:47,932 --> 00:29:49,140 That made me angry. 501 00:29:49,141 --> 00:29:53,186 [reporter 2] The Commission says neither president had adequate intelligence. 502 00:29:53,187 --> 00:29:56,189 How in God's name are you supposed to imagine a threat 503 00:29:56,190 --> 00:29:58,108 if the facts are being withheld from you? 504 00:30:00,027 --> 00:30:01,986 [Bennett] Seeing The 9/11 Commission Report 505 00:30:01,987 --> 00:30:04,490 go on The New York Times Best Seller list, 506 00:30:04,990 --> 00:30:09,911 knowing that it singled out the handful of us 507 00:30:09,912 --> 00:30:15,167 who had been trying, you know, to the best of our ability, 508 00:30:15,960 --> 00:30:20,171 to have them accuse us of failing to imagine the attack, 509 00:30:20,172 --> 00:30:21,966 failing to connect the dots, 510 00:30:23,092 --> 00:30:26,971 it... it was so painful, 511 00:30:27,721 --> 00:30:31,308 and we couldn't... we couldn't defend ourselves. 512 00:30:33,561 --> 00:30:36,104 [Storer] I've lived with that for 20 years. [sniffles] 513 00:30:36,105 --> 00:30:40,483 And it's only recently that I've realized that it just doesn't matter. 514 00:30:40,484 --> 00:30:42,777 [laughs] It doesn't matter what we did. 515 00:30:42,778 --> 00:30:45,613 Unless we had said, "Date, time, place," 516 00:30:45,614 --> 00:30:48,659 and thwarted the attack, we were gonna get blamed. 517 00:30:49,410 --> 00:30:50,286 And... 518 00:30:51,579 --> 00:30:55,833 [sighs] So I did... I did what I could, and that's all you can do. 519 00:30:58,794 --> 00:31:00,670 [clicking] 520 00:31:00,671 --> 00:31:02,756 [tense music playing] 521 00:31:04,133 --> 00:31:07,343 [reporter 1] Today, President Bush hosted the man who will be president 522 00:31:07,344 --> 00:31:09,053 in less than two and a half months. 523 00:31:09,054 --> 00:31:11,931 When Barack Obama is sworn in on January 20th, 524 00:31:11,932 --> 00:31:13,850 he'll inherit a world of trouble. 525 00:31:13,851 --> 00:31:17,228 But today, it was one gracious couple welcoming another 526 00:31:17,229 --> 00:31:19,523 to their new home and new life. 527 00:31:21,066 --> 00:31:23,860 [reporter 2] What is the most urgent threat when it comes to security 528 00:31:23,861 --> 00:31:25,528 that Barack Obama has to deal with? 529 00:31:25,529 --> 00:31:28,031 [Bush] The most urgent threat that he'll have to deal with 530 00:31:28,032 --> 00:31:30,242 is an attack on our homeland. 531 00:31:32,578 --> 00:31:34,495 And I wish I could report that's not the case, 532 00:31:34,496 --> 00:31:35,997 but there's still an enemy out there 533 00:31:35,998 --> 00:31:38,250 that would like to inflict damage on America. 534 00:31:40,002 --> 00:31:42,712 [man] Taking out bin Laden was about cutting off the head of al-Qaida, 535 00:31:42,713 --> 00:31:46,925 but it was also about the closest thing that the United States was gonna get 536 00:31:46,926 --> 00:31:48,969 to a victory in... in the war on terror. 537 00:31:53,432 --> 00:31:55,058 {\an8}So when Obama comes into office, 538 00:31:55,059 --> 00:31:58,646 he gives a directive to double down on the bin Laden search. 539 00:31:59,396 --> 00:32:02,607 What was prepared was a kind of presidential directive to the CIA 540 00:32:02,608 --> 00:32:04,985 that's like, "I wanna do more to get bin Laden." 541 00:32:06,779 --> 00:32:10,198 "I'm sure you're working on this, but move this up the priority chain, 542 00:32:10,199 --> 00:32:12,408 put more people on it, put more resources on it, 543 00:32:12,409 --> 00:32:16,038 and importantly, I want regular updates about this." 544 00:32:18,457 --> 00:32:20,792 [man] There was always a challenge included 545 00:32:20,793 --> 00:32:23,712 in every job that I took in Washington. 546 00:32:27,091 --> 00:32:30,927 It was soon after I was sworn in that I went to the Oval Office 547 00:32:30,928 --> 00:32:32,262 to meet with the president, 548 00:32:32,846 --> 00:32:37,935 and he said my primary task as the director of the CIA 549 00:32:38,435 --> 00:32:41,187 was to go after and get bin Laden. 550 00:32:41,188 --> 00:32:42,855 [heartbeat pounding] 551 00:32:42,856 --> 00:32:47,443 [Panetta] My first step was to call the key people from the CIA 552 00:32:47,444 --> 00:32:50,822 and basically say, "Where are we? What's going on?" 553 00:32:50,823 --> 00:32:52,408 [ominous music playing] 554 00:32:55,411 --> 00:32:59,790 [Morell] Under President Obama, I became deputy director of the CIA. 555 00:33:00,416 --> 00:33:02,750 The CIA never stopped looking. 556 00:33:02,751 --> 00:33:04,419 We followed every lead. 557 00:33:04,420 --> 00:33:07,380 We were trying desperately to figure out where bin Laden was, 558 00:33:07,381 --> 00:33:09,091 and not getting closer. 559 00:33:09,675 --> 00:33:14,887 I decided to appoint a task force with no other responsibility 560 00:33:14,888 --> 00:33:16,849 but to go after bin Laden. 561 00:33:19,101 --> 00:33:22,395 Leon Panetta put an immense amount of pressure on you to show progress. 562 00:33:22,396 --> 00:33:24,480 [Panetta] When you're an intelligence agency, 563 00:33:24,481 --> 00:33:29,360 what you've gotta do is develop as many possibilities as you can 564 00:33:29,361 --> 00:33:30,446 that can open a door. 565 00:33:31,238 --> 00:33:34,449 And one of those possibilities came to us 566 00:33:34,450 --> 00:33:37,745 from one of our allied countries in the Middle East. 567 00:33:38,912 --> 00:33:40,831 [clicking] 568 00:33:46,003 --> 00:33:49,839 [Morell] In 2009, the Jordanians had in their custody 569 00:33:49,840 --> 00:33:51,592 a physician named al-Balawi. 570 00:33:52,176 --> 00:33:57,388 He was arrested because he was espousing the views of a jihadist, 571 00:33:57,389 --> 00:33:58,848 the views of al-Qaida. 572 00:33:58,849 --> 00:34:04,146 [Bennett] He had been writing online in support of al-Qaida's extremism. 573 00:34:04,688 --> 00:34:07,691 He saw himself as a violent member of the mujahideen, 574 00:34:08,275 --> 00:34:11,403 someone who was going to fight on behalf of his faith. 575 00:34:12,404 --> 00:34:15,364 [Morell] The Jordanians came to us and said, 576 00:34:15,365 --> 00:34:21,079 "We think we would be able to turn him and use him as an asset against al-Qaida." 577 00:34:21,080 --> 00:34:22,289 "Are you interested?" 578 00:34:23,207 --> 00:34:24,540 We said, "Absolutely." 579 00:34:24,541 --> 00:34:25,750 [dramatic music playing] 580 00:34:25,751 --> 00:34:29,797 [Morell] His incentive at this point is not being in jail, 581 00:34:30,297 --> 00:34:34,217 and if he delivers significant al-Qaida leaders, 582 00:34:34,218 --> 00:34:35,803 significant reward. 583 00:34:37,846 --> 00:34:42,266 That resulted in the Jordanians sending him to Afghanistan 584 00:34:42,267 --> 00:34:43,769 to penetrate al-Qaida. 585 00:34:45,729 --> 00:34:49,524 The agency has been called risk-averse so many times in the past. 586 00:34:49,525 --> 00:34:51,902 There's nothing risk-averse about it. 587 00:34:52,820 --> 00:34:54,321 This was a big gamble. 588 00:34:55,697 --> 00:34:57,366 And then... 589 00:34:59,326 --> 00:35:02,329 it was as if he just disappeared into thin air. 590 00:35:03,789 --> 00:35:04,957 Pfft! 591 00:35:05,666 --> 00:35:07,835 Into the fog, into the ether. 592 00:35:08,585 --> 00:35:09,752 He went dark. 593 00:35:09,753 --> 00:35:11,671 [tense music playing] 594 00:35:11,672 --> 00:35:13,382 [Miller] Did he just run away? 595 00:35:14,550 --> 00:35:17,928 Did they figure out he was a spy and kill him? 596 00:35:18,846 --> 00:35:19,930 What happened? 597 00:35:22,349 --> 00:35:24,059 A long time goes by. 598 00:35:24,560 --> 00:35:26,436 First weeks, then longer. 599 00:35:27,187 --> 00:35:29,523 [clicking] 600 00:35:32,651 --> 00:35:34,444 [Morell] It took several months. 601 00:35:36,446 --> 00:35:41,451 And then he reported back that he is with al-Qaida's number two... 602 00:35:43,495 --> 00:35:44,662 Zawahiri. 603 00:35:44,663 --> 00:35:49,041 They actually got film of him being close to Zawahiri. It was crazy. 604 00:35:49,042 --> 00:35:51,752 [Miller] This is a potentially very big deal. 605 00:35:51,753 --> 00:35:55,340 [Morell] This would be an opportunity to get at the number two. 606 00:35:56,675 --> 00:35:58,760 Maybe even more than the number two. 607 00:36:01,430 --> 00:36:02,264 Bin Laden. 608 00:36:03,056 --> 00:36:04,933 For us, that's a huge opportunity. 609 00:36:05,976 --> 00:36:11,981 But before we would even think about operationalizing this opportunity, 610 00:36:11,982 --> 00:36:13,317 we wanted to meet him. 611 00:36:14,276 --> 00:36:16,737 We wanted to make sure that he was the real deal. 612 00:36:18,405 --> 00:36:23,117 We set up a meeting in Afghanistan at a place called Khost, 613 00:36:23,118 --> 00:36:25,913 which is near the border with Pakistan. 614 00:36:30,834 --> 00:36:34,129 [clicking] 615 00:36:36,423 --> 00:36:39,843 [Walder] When you develop a source in terrorist groups, 616 00:36:40,344 --> 00:36:41,929 that's really hard to do. 617 00:36:43,222 --> 00:36:46,475 You're basically asking someone to flip on, like, their own blood. 618 00:36:46,975 --> 00:36:48,602 It's near impossible. 619 00:36:52,356 --> 00:36:56,944 [Morell] You can imagine the thinking of the officers in Khost. 620 00:36:58,403 --> 00:37:00,614 A guy who might have access 621 00:37:01,323 --> 00:37:04,159 to the number two in al-Qaida is coming to see you. 622 00:37:04,868 --> 00:37:06,744 [radio chatter] 623 00:37:06,745 --> 00:37:10,206 [Morell] Do you wanna put him through multiple security screenings, 624 00:37:10,207 --> 00:37:11,416 maybe turn him off? 625 00:37:11,917 --> 00:37:13,960 Or do you wanna welcome him with open arms, 626 00:37:13,961 --> 00:37:15,962 make him feel like one of us? 627 00:37:15,963 --> 00:37:18,048 [radio chatter continues] 628 00:37:19,841 --> 00:37:23,220 [Bennett] Khost became such a big operation. 629 00:37:24,638 --> 00:37:28,392 And we were getting so close 630 00:37:29,059 --> 00:37:31,395 to a real lead on where bin Laden was. 631 00:37:34,439 --> 00:37:37,859 When he came into the base, cars can't just drive up. 632 00:37:38,360 --> 00:37:40,612 They're slowed down through checkpoints. 633 00:37:41,738 --> 00:37:44,907 [Miller] You go all the way to the end of the base, 634 00:37:44,908 --> 00:37:47,535 and there is a small compound 635 00:37:47,536 --> 00:37:52,457 where the core CIA people are gonna meet with him privately. 636 00:37:53,709 --> 00:37:56,627 [Panetta] He finally got to where our CIA officers were, 637 00:37:56,628 --> 00:37:57,712 and they all came out 638 00:37:57,713 --> 00:38:00,924 because they'd been waiting for this meeting, to greet him. 639 00:38:02,634 --> 00:38:05,052 [Miller] He's considered potentially the golden goose. 640 00:38:05,053 --> 00:38:08,849 This guy could bring us to where we've never been able to go before. 641 00:38:10,058 --> 00:38:12,185 So they came out to the car. 642 00:38:13,812 --> 00:38:15,272 This was something big. 643 00:38:17,691 --> 00:38:18,984 This was a turning point. 644 00:38:21,028 --> 00:38:24,489 [clicking] 645 00:38:29,161 --> 00:38:32,205 [man] I am Dr. Abu Dujana al-Khorasani, Jordanian. 646 00:38:32,789 --> 00:38:35,541 The Jordanian and the American intelligence services 647 00:38:35,542 --> 00:38:39,086 offered me millions of dollars to work with them 648 00:38:39,087 --> 00:38:41,630 and spy on mujahideen here. 649 00:38:41,631 --> 00:38:43,090 But Alhamdulillah, 650 00:38:43,091 --> 00:38:44,800 I came to the mujahideen, 651 00:38:44,801 --> 00:38:46,844 and I told them everything, 652 00:38:46,845 --> 00:38:50,140 and we arranged together this attack. 653 00:38:53,060 --> 00:38:54,853 We'll get you, CIA team. 654 00:38:55,771 --> 00:38:59,733 Inshallah, we'll come to you from unexpected ways. 655 00:39:00,233 --> 00:39:02,235 [tense music playing] 656 00:39:04,404 --> 00:39:05,655 This is for you. 657 00:39:06,490 --> 00:39:07,616 It's not watch. 658 00:39:08,116 --> 00:39:09,201 It's detonator. 659 00:39:09,701 --> 00:39:11,536 You will be sent to the hell. 660 00:39:12,037 --> 00:39:14,039 [music intensifying] 661 00:39:22,589 --> 00:39:24,591 [dramatic theme music playing] 662 00:39:24,591 --> 00:39:29,591 DOWNLOADED FROM WWW.AWAFIM.TV 663 00:39:24,591 --> 00:39:34,591 For latest movies and series with subtitles Visit WWW.AWAFIM.TV Today 53161

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