September 11, 2001

On September 11, 2001, nineteen al-Qaeda hijackers took control of four commercial airliners and used them to attack the United States. This episode traces the plot from its origins with Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's 1996 proposal to Osama bin Laden, through the missed intelligence warnings that might have stopped it, to the events of that Tuesday morning. It follows the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, the passenger revolt aboard United Flight 93, and the firefighters, office workers, and officials who lived through the deadliest terrorist attack in world history.Send me a text!Support the show