The new drama retells the build-up to the terror attack and how the US’s intelligences services let tribalism and ego get in the way of national interest
There is a shot, 12 minutes into Hulu and Amazon’s new series The Looming Tower, that serves as the show’s first real jaw-dropper – but it’s so brief that if you blink, you miss it. We have just seen an archive newsreel of Osama bin Laden giving an interview to an ABC reporter from a mountaintop camp in the Hindu Kush, explicitly announcing a terrorist attack in the coming weeks that would target US civilians.
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