This three part docuseries from directors Mor Loushy and Daniel Sivan gives an in-depth look at how the world mobilized to hunt down Osama Bin Laden after his orchestrations of the September 11th, 2001 attacks on the United States. Featuring interviews with key people within the US government who helped in the global chase, this series focuses on the decade-long mission to capture one of the world’s most notorious terrorists.
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00:00We're at war. We will find those who did it, and we'll bring them to justice.
00:11Kofor Black, chief of counterterrorism, said, if you'll let me do it, I'll have flies walking
00:16on their eyeballs in six weeks. That's what I'm talking about.
00:22I was working with a representative from the FAA, trying to track some of the conspirators.
00:28We knew this was Osama bin Laden.
00:31We were going to war, full out, against bin Laden.
00:35I say to the American people, by God's will, we are going to fight you, and we will continue
00:45the terrorist operations.
00:46You had branches of Al Qaeda everywhere. Bin Laden basically franchised himself.
00:51They had a stronghold in Tora Bora. That's where the intelligence said that they had
00:56retreated to.
00:57This is the time to come in with massive force and end this thing.
01:06Bin Laden got away. Every one of them that escaped the country was a potential pilot
01:10to fly another airline into a building.
01:14It became obsessive, and yet we were constantly insulted.
01:17How could this guy still be out there?
01:19It had been years since 9-11, and we had nothing.
01:23And then here's this compound.
01:25Oh my God, we may have found him.
01:27The president said, nobody else in our government is to know about this.
01:31My team's going to the most important mission in modern history.
01:34This is the moment when everything you've planned to get bin Laden is on the line in
01:40the next 20 minutes.
01:42And that's when all hell broke loose.