The Path to 9/11

original title:
The Path to 9/11
other titles:
(Wege des Terrors), 11 settembre - Tragedia annunciata
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240 min. , color
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10 September 2006
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Nach ABC Angaben basiert der Film auf dem "9/11 Commission Report" und den Büchern "The Cell" von John Miller und "The Relentless Pursuit" von Samuel Katz. Deweiteren seien persönliche Interwievs, neue Unterlagen und andere Quellen Grundlage des Films.

John Miller/ Michael Stone/ Chris Mitchell. The Cell - Inside the 9/11 plot, and why the FBI and CIA failed to stop it. New York: Hyperion, 2002.

Samuel M. Katz. Relentless Pursuit - The DSS and the Manhunt for the Al-Qaeda Terrorists. New York: Forge/Tom Doherty Associates, 2002.
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„The path to 9/11“ is a controversial discussed two part miniseries which was aired in the USA by ABC on September 11. and 12.. The Film emotes die terrorist attacks an the World Trade Centre of 1993 and 2001 and puts them in a chronology of terrorist attacks on the USA. After the suicide bombing of the warship USS Cole on 14. of October 2000 the FBI terror-expert John O’Neill (Harvey Keitel) is send to the Yemen. He is on the brink to catch Osama bin Laden but the mission is abolished shortly before she is completed. Original the film contented some direct accusations on the Clinton administration which were cut out after heavy resistance of the Democratic Party. For example in one scene Madeleine Albright should have had frustrated a plan to kill Bin Laden by warning the Pakistani government. The attack existed the warning not. In another scene the terror-expert Richard Clarke blames Clinton to be incapacitated to do something effective against the international terror.
The “Thing” with Lewinsky should have been deflected him. This scene wasn’t in the shown version either. Dissatisfied O’Neill quits duty and accedes his job as security chief in the World trade Centre. In the key scene the film dramatises the incidents of the 9/11 and reconstructs the impact of the second plane. The film includes the scene with Tom Burnetts phone call to with his wife and John Millers report of the incidents outside the World Trade cennter.
literature:
Stephen Brill. After - The Rebuilding and Defending of America in the September 12 Era. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003.

Gerhard Wisnewski. Operation 9/11. Angriff auf den Globus. München: Knaur, 2003.
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„The Path to 9/11 is a mix of fiction and truth and does not make clear where to one begins and the other ends”, the slashers complained ex ante…. Under a smoke screen of an authentic documentation history is bastardized immense – the blame is shifted to the Clinton Administration.”

Free interpreted and cited after:
http://www.spiegel.de/kultur/gesellschaft/0,1518,436376,00.html

Homepage: http://www.9-11commission.gov/report/911Report.pdf

Won an "Emmy" in 2007.
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