En las montañas del este de Afganistán a 150 kilómetros de Kabul se encuentra la base de operaciones del grupo terrorista islámico AL Qaeda, en la tarde del 11 de Septiembre del 2001 un puñado de hombres comandados por Osama Bin Laden está reunido en la llamada cueva del león y está esperando recibir noticias sobre la gran misión que diseño para atacar el centro financiero de los Estados Unidos en su Jihad contra los americanos.
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00:00September 11, 2001.
00:04Terrorists who call themselves warriors of God against the crusaders of the West.
00:14Two religions that preach peace, however, make war throughout history.
00:31Times of confrontation and collaboration.
00:38Peoples and powers that fight in the name of God, but fight for supremacy on earth.
00:45The Holy War.
00:49Terror and faith.
00:52The mountains of eastern Afghanistan, 150 kilometers from Kabul.
00:57The base of operations of the Islamic terrorist group Al-Qaeda.
01:07In the middle of the night, the Islamic terrorist group Al-Qaeda,
01:12in the afternoon of September 11, 2001,
01:16a group of men meet in the so-called Lion Cave.
01:21From subsequent interrogations of Al-Qaeda leaders captured,
01:26we know what happened here that day.
01:42The founder and head of the organization has retired to this secret place.
01:50His name, Osama Bin Laden.
01:56According to news from New York,
01:59a plane crashed into one of the towers of the World Trade Center,
02:03just before nine in the morning.
02:06Bin Laden has declared a murderous war against the United States.
02:12On the morning of September 11, 2001, in New York, the inconceivable happens.
02:27A day of terror. For Osama Bin Laden it is a day of triumph.
02:34The leader of the terrorist organization Al-Qaeda wants revenge against the United States
02:38for the alleged humiliation of the Islamic world.
02:44The crimes and sins committed by the Americans
02:48are a declaration of war against Allah and the Muslims.
02:53Ten years earlier, the American troops had intervened in the Middle East,
02:58a region in a permanent state of crisis.
03:01Air attacks are underway against military targets in Iraq.
03:05The Americans defy the Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein
03:09after his invasion of Kuwait.
03:12The United States wants to free the country.
03:15It deploys its troops in Saudi Arabia.
03:18The country is an ally of the West.
03:21It is also a fundamentalist state
03:24and the guardian of the holy places of Mecca and Medina.
03:28Now half a million American soldiers are on Saudi soil,
03:33the birthplace of Islam.
03:36A provocation for many loyal Saudis.
03:41The son of a Saudi clan immensely rich is disgusted.
03:45Osama Bin Laden.
03:47He believes that the holy places are being desecrated by the infidels.
03:51His father, Mohammed, was the entrepreneur of the most important construction in Saudi Arabia.
03:55The numerous women of the patriarch gave him 57 children.
03:59Osama is one of them.
04:02Since his youth, Bin Laden has tried to impress with his religious convictions.
04:07Another reason why he refers to the Americans
04:11highlighted in Saudi Arabia as crusaders.
04:14He accuses this outrage of the Saudi royal family.
04:18We have to do everything possible.
04:22We have to do everything possible
04:25to break the alliance between Bush and the corrupt Saudi house.
04:30That moment he realized that the kingdom was going to come to the United States
04:36and the international community to defend itself
04:40represented a turning point in his life.
04:44Because he believed that no non-Muslim should be allowed to enter the kingdom
04:48under any concept.
04:52Half a million foreign soldiers arrive there,
04:56mostly Christians or Jews,
04:59many of them women, to defend the kingdom of Saudi Arabia
05:03against another Muslim army.
05:06The Americans defeat the army of Saddam.
05:10Subsequently, American units remain in Saudi Arabia
05:14to safeguard the supply of oil to the West.
05:16And to protect the regime in allied Saudi.
05:20At the same time, President Bush's father speaks of a new world order.
05:25A world in which there is a real possibility of a new world order.
05:30The new American order is a provocation for Osama Bin Laden.
05:34He wants a return to the traditional values of Islam
05:38and demands the Muslim world to restore its former glory.
05:43We will establish the rules of the Sharia, whatever it takes.
05:49Twelve centuries before, the Muslims had changed the world.
05:54From Mecca, they had created an immense empire
05:57that extended from Central Asia to Western Europe under the Umayyad dynasty.
06:02The so-called jihadists, like Bin Laden,
06:05believe that the culminating point in Muslim history
06:08was the result of a sectarian and aggressive interpretation of Islam.
06:13The Islamic culture flourished due to its permeability.
06:17In the mythical places of Islam, where a high culture developed,
06:22like Baghdad, for example, Andalusia, Damascus or Cairo,
06:26the high culture only came to exist
06:29because Islam remained open to external influences.
06:33It was not, as the jihadists claim,
06:36an autonomous world that expanded through violent struggle.
06:40The jihadists adhere to a vision of Islam
06:43that prevails in Saudi Arabia, Wahhabism,
06:47an especially strict interpretation of Islam.
06:51A reason why not only Islamic militants
06:54accuse the Saudi regime of hypocrisy.
06:57Behind the pious facade, people are enjoying Western luxuries
07:01while enjoying the protection of the United States.
07:09As a young man, Osama Bin Laden is irritated
07:12by the contradictions of Saudi society.
07:16A student of economics and business administration,
07:20he searches and finds spiritual guidance.
07:24Biographers describe a meeting with an ideologist of modern jihad
07:29that will change Bin Laden's life.
07:32At the University of Jeddah,
07:35Bin Laden attends lectures by Abdullah Assam.
07:38Assam wants to fight for the dignity of all Muslims,
07:42with a sword, but above all, with faith.
07:45Assam is Palestinian.
07:48For him and many other Arabs,
07:51the recent history of the Middle East is a series of humiliations.
07:57Among these humiliations was the war that shook the region in 1967.
08:02The Israeli army only needed six days
08:04to defeat the allied Arab forces.
08:07A preventive attack ended the conquest of East Jerusalem.
08:12The previously divided Holy City,
08:15the center of three major religions in the world,
08:18was now under total Israeli control.
08:21The Arabs had said they would expel the Jews to the sea.
08:26Their plan to recover Palestine had failed.
08:30A defeat and a humiliation.
08:33Three million Palestinians now live under Israeli occupation.
08:42For the United States, Israel is the most important strategic partner in the Middle East.
08:48Many Arabs feel an increasing hostility towards this Jewish-Christian alliance.
08:54Since the 1980s, parallelism has been established in the jihadist circles
08:58between the crusaders of the Middle Ages and contemporary politics,
09:03especially that of the United States and Israel today.
09:08The existence of Israel, for example,
09:11is described as the result of a Western crusade.
09:15Not only Israel and the United States are considered enemies.
09:19In 1980, another world power causes Assam to declare a holy war.
09:24Troops of the Soviet Union invade Afghanistan.
09:28We must now focus our efforts in Afghanistan and Palestine
09:32because they have become our main problems.
09:39Osama Bin Laden, 23 years old, is an enthusiast of Assam's ideas.
09:45Assam asks for a defensive jihad for the liberation of Muslim countries,
09:50not for a world war against infidels.
09:53He describes the liberation of Muslim territory as an external or minor jihad.
09:58It cannot be successful if people go through a process of spiritual renewal
10:03described as the superior and interior jihad.
10:12Emir, I see a deep wisdom in your words
10:16and the spirit of which we Saudis lack.
10:22If you really care about our common struggle, I suggest you read this.
10:29From now on, Assam's teachings will have a powerful influence on Osama Bin Laden.
10:38Assam wants to launch the new jihad in Afghanistan,
10:42where, during the 1980s,
10:45Muslim resistance groups have been fighting the Soviet occupation.
10:49Bin Laden follows his mentor and recruits young Saudis
10:53to defend the land of Muslims against infidels.
10:58He is the leader of the Arab warriors in Afghanistan.
11:04During the 1980s, Abdullah Assam was the undisputed leader of the Arab warriors in Afghanistan.
11:12Osama Bin Laden was a kind of loyal assistant to him.
11:16He was not even his lieutenant yet.
11:19He was just a young and perhaps naive Saudi
11:23who played a role because he contributed with a large amount of money,
11:26as well as with a high number of Saudi recruits.
11:31Since 1988, Bin Laden's troops have called themselves Al-Qaeda,
11:36the Arabic word for base or military camp.
11:40These self-proclaimed holy warriors are fighting for a new rise to the power of Islam.
11:46But the jihad against the Soviets is coming to an end.
11:50In 1988, Moscow begins to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan.
11:56At the moment, it is still unclear against whom the holy war will be directed.
12:03In 1989, Assam dies in Pakistan, victim of a mysterious murder.
12:10In Saudi Arabia, Bin Laden gains fame for his feats in the war against the Russians.
12:16But the halo of heroism that surrounds him is the product of a skilful propaganda.
12:22The war in Afghanistan was won by the Afghans.
12:27The Arabs joined in a late phase and played virtually no military role.
12:33It has always been said that Osama Bin Laden participated in a single battle in 1987.
12:41But in general, it is quite clear that the Arabs were rather tourists of jihad
12:47than real rebels who contributed militarily to the success of the whole company.
12:55However, Bin Laden seems more confident than ever.
12:59After the Gulf War of 1991, his vision becomes specific.
13:04He wants the holy places of Saudi Arabia to be controlled by true believers like him.
13:11The Americans must be expelled.
13:13His harsh criticism of the Saudi ruling house causes a fierce confrontation.
13:19And Bin Laden moves to Sudan.
13:22The country is ruled by Islamists.
13:25Sudan is a place of refuge for many militants of a similar mentality to the Arab world.
13:31The Sudanese government sees Bin Laden as an investor who can help the country's progress.
13:37In fact, Bin Laden initially acted as an entrepreneur in the road construction sector.
13:44His political plans are still vague.
13:48He was missing a new great project that he could undertake.
13:52There are indications that he was depressed not knowing what to do with his life.
13:57However, by then he must have taken the internal resolution to fight the Americans.
14:06In the first half of the 90s, he seems to have felt quite insecure about what to do and who to fight.
14:17Bin Laden decides to further strengthen his spiritual determination.
14:23Jihad is the best form of voluntary service that man can give to God.
14:32Abu Hatsher is Bin Laden's personal imam, his private preacher.
14:38He knows the whole Koran by heart and is well versed in history.
14:43A deserter from Al-Qaeda will later testify to a meeting between the two men.
14:49One night, at Bin Laden's guest house, Hatsher allegedly uttered two fetwas, religious opinions about the Islamic law.
14:58The Iraqi is a qualified electrical engineer, but in these circles he is accepted as a religious authority.
15:06We, as Muslim defenders of the land of the two holy places,
15:12must fulfill our duty to assassinate the American troops wherever we find them.
15:19Unlike Christianity, Islam does not have formal priests or clerical hierarchy.
15:24And because there is no official clergy, Al-Qaeda can claim to be itself a clerical authority.
15:31And there is an additional argument.
15:34Al-Qaeda denounces that the Islamic erudites, the so-called ulemas, are all corrupt.
15:40They are at the service of their governments and have strayed from true faith.
15:46Only they, Al-Qaeda, know how to interpret the Koran correctly,
15:51taking it literally.
15:56Abu Hatsher's first fetwa dictates that the attack on the American soldiers is justified.
16:03The civilians who support the United States are also legitimate targets.
16:09The second fetwa also establishes that it is acceptable for Muslims to be killed.
16:15The good ones will go to heaven anyway,
16:19while the bad ones will not pose any loss to the world.
16:23It is a self-authorized license to kill.
16:26Its thought is not determined by religion or the Koran, but by personal fanaticism.
16:32In New York, in 1993, six people die and more than a thousand are injured
16:37when a huge explosive charge explodes inside a parked van under the World Trade Center.
16:47The author is Ramsi Youssef, an Islamic militant.
16:52He is arrested and testifies that he acted driven by his hatred of Israel and the Jews.
16:59It is not yet clear if Bin Laden was behind the explosion.
17:04In 1995, he attacks King Saud Fahd in an open letter.
17:12It is not acceptable for the country to become a North American protectorate
17:17to defend your shaky throne and protect the country's oil reserves.
17:26The United States, the protective power of the Saudis, decides to silence this dangerous critic.
17:33President Clinton pressures Sudan,
17:36urging his government to expel Bin Laden from the country.
17:43The head of Al-Qaeda calls his warriors for a meeting.
17:47He informs them that the long arm of the Americans even reaches this remote corner of the globe.
17:54Bin Laden has to pay a high price for his constant provocations.
17:59The Sudanese will deport him.
18:01They order him to dissolve his organization in his country.
18:05Bin Laden gives each of his warriors a plane ticket back to his country and $2,400 in cash.
18:15Take this.
18:17It is not necessary to count it.
18:20It is the correct amount.
18:23The ticket is for a flight that leaves in two days.
18:27The government of Sudan has already confiscated the property of Bin Laden,
18:32as well as the properties of his construction company and his liquid assets.
18:38He has probably lost between $20 and $30 million.
18:42He leaves Sudan with only $50,000 in his pocket.
18:47It is the lowest point of his career.
18:50It is the fault of the Americans.
18:53It is the fault of the Americans.
19:05Bin Laden is granted one last luxury.
19:08The Sudanese fly a private jet for him and his collaborators.
19:16There is only one country willing to grant him asylum.
19:20Afghanistan.
19:22Since 1996, the Taliban have held power in this country.
19:27The regime is profoundly fundamentalist, with a brutal interpretation of Sharia, the Islamic law.
19:43For fans like Bin Laden, Afghanistan is a kind of Islamic paradise.
19:48But for the Taliban, Bin Laden is like an uninvited guest.
19:53With a few collaborators from his closest circle, he moves to the mountains.
20:07The refuge is called Dora Bora.
20:10The self-proclaimed savior of Islam is a rather lonely figure.
20:14But Bin Laden enjoys his role.
20:17Wasn't Muhammad pushed into exile in the year 622?
20:21In his escape, the prophet had also been forced to hide from his enemies.
20:27It was only from then that Islam began its victorious ascent.
20:38The idea of abandoning Mecca seems to have had a great meaning for him.
20:42Bin Laden comes from the land of the holy places, Mecca and Medina,
20:47and moves to Afghanistan, which is basically a desert area,
20:52to return victorious in a later stage.
20:57Bin Laden considers himself the symbol of all the persecuted Muslims.
21:02Like the prophet, centuries before he decides to go on the offensive.
21:06In 1996, he writes his declaration of war against the United States of America.
21:37The declaration of war against the United States by the hermit Bin Laden
21:42is both absurd and disturbing.
21:46He wanted that with the United States,
21:49the same problem that the Soviet Union had was reproduced.
21:53And it was that the Soviets entered Afghanistan in 1979.
21:57They were there for 10 years and withdrew.
22:00And what happened?
22:02The Soviet Union became so large, it collapsed.
22:04And Bin Laden really believes that he can do the same to the United States,
22:09which will become the United States.
22:12And that will open up the way for Islam to regain its rightful place,
22:17as a preeminent power in the world.
22:22In March 1997, Bin Laden gives his first interview to a team of Western television.
22:29The famous war correspondent Peter Arnett,
22:31wants to have a more precise idea of what Bin Laden is planning.
22:36The Jihad is directed against the US government or against the people of the United States.
22:42We have focused our declaration of Jihad on hitting the US soldiers in Saudi Arabia,
22:49the country of the two holy places, Mecca and Medina.
22:53Therefore, although American civilians are not an objective in our plan to leave,
22:58we do not guarantee their safety.
23:04What are your future plans?
23:08You will see and hear about them in the media.
23:13God willing.
23:20In Afghanistan, Bin Laden allies himself with an old comrade in arms,
23:25Ayman al-Zawahiri.
23:27He is also an Islamic and Jihadist militant.
23:31During the 1980s, the Egyptian doctor fought alongside Bin Laden against the Russians in Afghanistan.
23:37The two men decide to join forces, although their strategies are different.
23:42Bin Laden wants to fight against US supremacy.
23:46Al-Zawahiri wants to trigger an Islamic revolution in Egypt.
23:50The United States supports Mubarak's regime in the country and is therefore an enemy.
23:53Together, Bin Laden and Al-Zawahiri decide to use terror to achieve their goals.
24:01This alliance will strengthen us both.
24:05This is not a battle that will be fought only with bullets, but also with faith.
24:13It is true.
24:15Egypt is a very popular destination for Western tourists.
24:20Every year, millions of people visit its ancient monuments.
24:27At the end of 1997, a dream vacation becomes a deadly trap.
24:33The air in the morning is still cool when the first visitors gather in front of the Hatshepsut temple.
24:39I had a disturbing premonition.
24:43Franz Kessler is a journalist for the Austrian radio.
24:47He and his girlfriend have traveled to Luxor as tourists.
24:53The first time I had been to Egypt, I was a young reporter to cover the funeral of my father.
25:00I was a young reporter.
25:03The first time I had been to Egypt, I was a young reporter to cover the funeral of my father.
25:10He had been murdered by Muslim extremists.
25:13Even then, I could see that things were taking place between backstage,
25:19that escaped the control of the government.
25:24Around nine in the morning, Islamic militants disguised as policemen approach the tourists.
25:30Suddenly, they hear shouts of,
25:33Allah is great!
25:35Then, the attackers begin to shoot the visitors.
25:47At first, I panicked because I had already had that feeling.
25:53Then I felt that I was invaded by a tremendous heat and I thought,
25:56Idiot, how could you travel to Egypt?
26:01Franz Kessler manages to cover himself and remains unharmed.
26:06Dozens of other tourists are shot down.
26:11No one comes to his aid.
26:14The massacre continues for a total of 45 minutes.
26:21I remember a lot of corpses.
26:23They were all dead.
26:26Something terrible has happened and they are all lying on the ground.
26:32I had to get out of there somehow.
26:3758 people were killed.
26:40Criminals do not seek to kill Christians deliberately.
26:44The attack is aimed at the country's regime.
26:47The plan is to destabilize Egypt by cutting their income from tourism.
26:54Some indications in specialized literature point to the fact that Ayman al-Zawahiri ordered the attack.
27:01I don't think that extreme has been sufficiently tested, but it is undoubtedly a possibility.
27:08Al-Zawahiri and Bin Laden know that these attacks will have little approval from Arab countries.
27:15The majority reaction of the Muslim world is horror and repulsion.
27:18They decide to concentrate their efforts exclusively in America,
27:23hoping that an attack against the United States will cause a positive response from the Arab world and favor the cause of Jihad.
27:31In 1998, Bin Laden and Al-Zawahiri announce the creation of the Islamic World Front for Jihad against the Jews and the Crusaders.
27:41What you have to understand about Al-Qaeda is that it is a different organization from the rest of the Jihadist groups.
27:49Until the appearance of Al-Qaeda, all the Jihadist groups were nationalist organizations.
27:55They were Palestinian or Iraqi organizations.
27:58They had nationalist goals.
28:00What makes Al-Qaeda a unique organization is that Bin Laden had the vision that it was not a war against a specific government,
28:06such as the government of Egypt or Jordan.
28:10It was a war against everything that was not Islam.
28:13It was a war against all unbelievers.
28:19From now on, Al-Qaeda will seek a conflict with the United States on a global scale.
28:24August 1998, a car bomb explodes in front of the United States Embassy in Nairobi.
28:31213 people die, most of them of African origin.
28:35Simultaneously, in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, a car bomb explodes in front of the United States Embassy.
28:4211 people die.
28:45Once again, they are only African victims.
28:50October 2000.
28:52In front of the Yemeni city of Aden, the terrorists lead a ship loaded with explosives against the American destroyer Cole.
28:5917 American sailors die.
29:05Bin Laden wants to provoke a military response from the United States, but the Americans do not bite the bait.
29:12The year 2000 is an election year, and Bill Clinton, the outgoing president, considers that a military attack would be an inadequate response.
29:20Bin Laden continues to challenge the Americans.
29:23His greatest desire is for the superpower to attack Afghanistan, where it will suffer the same wear and tear as the Soviets.
29:29To achieve his goal, he decides to attack the United States in his own territory.
29:36They had a plan in mind, to attack office buildings, the Pentagon, etc.
29:42It was part of their strategic game, but they did not have the right personnel, they did not have anyone who could carry it out.
29:50The people they were training did not speak English and had not lived in the West, they had no chance.
29:58Having terrorists trained in the use of light weapons and in close combat is not enough to deal a decisive blow to the United States.
30:11However, there are some advances in the planning of Osama Bin Laden.
30:16An Islamist group from Hamburg goes to a training camp in Afghanistan.
30:20The head of the group is the Egyptian Mohamed Atta.
30:24He has just obtained a master's degree in urban planning at the University of Hamburg.
30:30The arrival of Mohamed Atta to the camp, accompanied by three other types of Hamburg who have lived in the West,
30:37whose linguistic ability is really good, and they also have technical knowledge, was a great success.
30:44Osama Bin Laden invites these singular recruits from Al-Qaeda in Hamburg to his guest house near Jalalabad.
30:51After the sunset, they break the fast together. It is Ramadan.
30:56That same night, Bin Laden reveals to Mohamed Atta and his partner Siyad Jarrah,
31:02that he is the leader of the Al-Qaeda group.
31:06Welcome.
31:10Sheikh, it is an honor to break our fast with you, and sit by your side.
31:16I am honored.
31:20I am honored too.
31:24For the first time, I have the great pleasure of meeting you.
31:30I am glad to see you.
31:35to talk about future plans.
31:39We have so many future plans,
31:41but I want to talk to you about one in particular.
31:45One that requires a great sacrifice.
31:50But the divine reward for this sacrifice
31:53will be immeasurable.
32:00Bin Laden offers you a special honor.
32:04You can go to paradise as martyrs.
32:10New York is our goal.
32:13We will kidnap planes to accomplish this mission.
32:18I have knowledge of New York,
32:20but I do not know how to fly a plane.
32:22Do not worry about that.
32:24We can train everything.
32:27You will learn to fly.
32:30Bin Laden really believed,
32:32or at least he seemed to believe,
32:34that the United States was so fragile
32:37that if it was attacked at certain points,
32:40it would collapse.
32:43So he selected as objectives
32:46its economic, political and defense
32:49neuralgic centers.
32:55And he thought that if he could attack
32:58the four places,
33:00the Twin Towers,
33:02the Capitol of the United States
33:05and the Pentagon,
33:07would cause a breakdown of the North American system
33:10and the country would begin to crumble.
33:15In January 2000,
33:17Atta and Jarrah are once again
33:19in the headquarters of Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan.
33:23They are two young and well-educated men
33:25who seek to make sense of their lives.
33:28They pretend to act in the name of God.
33:31In reality, they are only planning acts of terror.
33:37I think Mohammed Atta wanted to be a figure in history,
33:40and the West was a strange culture for him.
33:43So how can a young man like him manifest himself?
33:46How to influence history?
33:48How to leave his mark?
33:51That is precisely what Al-Qaeda
33:53offered Mohammed Atta and other young men like him,
33:56the opportunity to make history.
33:59All they had to do was die.
34:05The pilots complete their flight training
34:07at the Huffman Aviation School in Florida.
34:14Siyad Jarrah, Atta's accomplice,
34:16is proudly photographed in the cabin.
34:20On the morning of September 11, 2001,
34:22a total of 19 terrorists
34:24pass the controls at several airports in the United States.
34:31A security camera captures the last images of Mohammed Atta.
34:36Shortly after, he and four accomplices
34:38take control of American Airlines flight number 11.
34:50Almost simultaneously,
34:51three more planes disappear from the radar screens.
34:55They have also been kidnapped by the terrorists.
35:12According to reports that come to us from New York,
35:15an aircraft has crashed
35:17against one of the towers of the World Trade Center
35:20just before nine in the morning.
35:26In Afghanistan, it is nine and a half hours later than in New York.
35:31That September 11,
35:32Bin Laden and his men have retreated to the mountains.
35:37On the radio, they hear the news coming from the United States.
35:42Keep silent.
35:47When the first plane crashed,
35:49and everyone was shouting,
35:51Allah is the greatest, and so on,
35:54Bin Laden raised a finger
35:56to indicate that he was only the first.
36:00What happened that day in the cave of Afghanistan is well known.
36:04Bin Laden was shocked by this in numerous conversations.
36:07Later, it would be known through the interrogations
36:09of the leaders of Al-Qaeda captured.
36:13Then the second plane crashed and he raised another finger.
36:17And then the attack on the Pentagon occurred.
36:44And he raised a third finger.
36:48And he raised a fourth finger.
36:52America is being attacked.
36:55The great superpower suddenly seems extremely vulnerable.
36:59In the whole world, a shocked audience
37:01contemplates the horrendous scenes of New York,
37:04live, on television.
37:07Almost 3,000 people die that day.
37:11Criminals claim with arrogance
37:13to have acted in the name of Islam.
37:16But it is a mass murder,
37:18pure and plain.
37:25The acts of terror are, in their majority,
37:28a stage.
37:30The terrorist wants to get attention
37:32about their cause.
37:36What differentiates Al-Qaeda from other terrorist groups
37:39is their thirst for blood.
37:41It seeks to cause as many casualties as possible.
37:46So there was a double goal in these attacks.
37:50On the one hand, to create these amazing,
37:52shocking images that would be unforgettable,
37:55as they were.
37:57And on the other hand, to kill as many people as they could.
38:01These two aspects
38:03make Al-Qaeda a truly unique organization.
38:08Their aspirations to create
38:10incredibly dramatic effects
38:14and their devotion to the shedding of blood.
38:19On September 16, President Bush
38:21declares a war on terrorism.
38:24We understand,
38:26and the American people begin to understand,
38:28that this crusade,
38:33this war on terrorism,
38:37is going to take a while.
38:39George W. Bush
38:41only used the term crusade once.
38:45One could expect that the word crusade
38:48was simply ignored
38:50and no one would feel too offended by it.
38:53But the jihadists based all their propaganda
38:55precisely on that word.
38:57The Americans want to conquer us.
38:59And of course, the jihadist propaganda
39:01was disseminated on a large scale,
39:03in the medkits and through the Internet.
39:05And that was probably the way
39:07in which it reached the people for the first time.
39:10Naturally, that created a deep crack
39:12and a very intense wave of anti-Americanism.
39:17On September 20, 2001,
39:19George Bush tries to calm the mood
39:21and formulates the message in a different way.
39:26Terrorists are traitors to their own faith
39:29and they actually try to kidnap Islam itself.
39:33The enemy of the United States
39:35are not our many Muslim friends.
39:37They are not our many Arab friends.
39:39Our enemy is a radical network of terrorists
39:42and any government that supports them.
39:50The Americans strike again in October 2001
39:53with air strikes on Afghanistan.
39:56The goal is to kill Osama Bin Laden.
40:00Hundreds of his fighters die,
40:02but the leader of Al-Qaeda survives all air strikes.
40:10Anti-Taliban militias are encouraged
40:12to continue the battle on the ground.
40:15At the end of 2001,
40:17only a few US units fight in Afghanistan.
40:22Washington is eager to send major highlights.
40:27The CIA troops accompany their Afghan allies.
40:32But their loyalty is quite warm.
40:40Bin Laden escapes.
40:42The Americans have lost the opportunity
40:44to eliminate the brain behind the terrorist attacks in New York.
40:48A defeat for the superpower.
40:51The most wanted man will remain undetected
40:53for several more years.
40:55Al-Qaeda's terror campaign continues.
40:59Bali, 2002.
41:01More than 200 tourists die after the explosion of a bomb.
41:09Yerba, 2002.
41:1114 Germans die in an attack.
41:15Madrid, 2004.
41:17190 people die after attacks on nearby trains.
41:22London, 2005.
41:2454 people die in bomb attacks in the London subway.
41:29Iraq.
41:30Dozens of attacks kill hundreds of civilians.
41:41Abbottabad, Pakistan.
41:43May 1, 2011.
41:46For many years, Bin Laden has been living
41:49in a complex located on the outskirts
41:51of this peaceful city of Warnicion.
41:54He has been living in a complex for over 20 years.
41:58He has been living in a complex for over 20 years.
42:02He has been living in a complex for over 20 years.
42:10He feels safe, believing that the Americans
42:13do not know the whereabouts of his number one public enemy.
42:24He feels safe, believing that the Americans
42:27do not know the whereabouts of his number one public enemy.
42:40However, the superpower has Bin Laden in its sights.
42:44Ten years after the attacks in New York,
42:47American agents have followed a track that leads to Pakistan.
42:51In the early hours of the morning on May 2,
42:54US special forces, the Navy SEALs,
42:57enter Bin Laden's complex in Abbottabad
43:02and kill the man who sowed terror in the United States
43:06on September 11, 2001.
43:22Tonight I can tell the American people and the world
43:26that the United States has carried out an operation
43:29that has led to the death of Osama Bin Laden,
43:31the leader of Al-Qaeda.
43:35Does this end the history of the so-called Holy Wars?
43:39Images recorded in our memory that still instill fear in us.
43:44Prejudices that arouse conflicts and deepen divisions.
43:52The Holy Land and its three religions are unable to find peace.
43:58The historical times, when worlds that collided with each other
44:01tried to dominate each other, belong to the past.
44:05But they are still felt.
44:08History tells us the struggle between East and West,
44:11a struggle of religious conflicts to achieve victory and glory.
44:16And yet, when a people waged a war in the name of God,
44:20it left behind a trail of death and destruction.
44:41There has always been an alternative,
44:43the path of tolerance and understanding.
44:49So why do the religions that advocate peace
44:52continue to fight against each other?
45:00Perhaps it is because they got lost in their search for territorial power.
45:13No war has ever been holy.