1 00:00:27,193 --> 00:00:28,194 Holy shit! 2 00:00:28,820 --> 00:00:29,738 Shit! 3 00:00:33,616 --> 00:00:35,118 Holy shit! 4 00:00:38,788 --> 00:00:41,416 I was the president's daily intelligence briefer 5 00:00:41,499 --> 00:00:45,503 from January 4th, 2001 to January 4th, 2002. 6 00:00:49,299 --> 00:00:51,593 I briefed him six days a week. 7 00:00:52,802 --> 00:00:55,388 No matter where he was in the world, I was with him. 8 00:01:01,770 --> 00:01:04,355 Stand and recognize the President of the United States. 9 00:01:04,439 --> 00:01:07,525 - Good morning. How are you? - Good morning, Mr. President. 10 00:01:07,609 --> 00:01:10,945 And I was with President Bush on the morning of September 11th. 11 00:01:11,029 --> 00:01:13,239 The president and I were told about this plane 12 00:01:13,323 --> 00:01:14,949 hitting the World Trade Center. 13 00:01:15,033 --> 00:01:16,576 The assumption was, 14 00:01:16,659 --> 00:01:19,454 this must've been a small-plane accident. 15 00:01:19,537 --> 00:01:20,747 Thank you for standing up. 16 00:01:20,830 --> 00:01:24,167 The president was reading a story about a pet goat. 17 00:01:24,751 --> 00:01:27,087 - Are you ready, my butterflies? - Yes. 18 00:01:27,170 --> 00:01:29,964 LLP position, eyes on me. One, two, three. 19 00:01:30,465 --> 00:01:31,925 - Get ready. - "Park." 20 00:01:32,008 --> 00:01:33,009 Yes, "park." 21 00:01:33,093 --> 00:01:35,386 - What do these two letters say? - "R." 22 00:01:35,470 --> 00:01:36,888 Yes, "R." Sound it out. 23 00:01:36,971 --> 00:01:40,016 - Get ready. What word? - "Park." "Park." 24 00:01:40,100 --> 00:01:42,227 Yes, "park." Read this word the fast way. 25 00:01:42,310 --> 00:01:43,520 - Get ready. - "Sound." 26 00:01:46,606 --> 00:01:47,816 Oh my God! 27 00:01:50,401 --> 00:01:51,569 Clearly something… 28 00:01:51,653 --> 00:01:55,240 I called the CIA operations center, 29 00:01:55,323 --> 00:01:58,118 and they did have one piece of information for us, 30 00:01:58,201 --> 00:02:01,162 which was that it was a large commercial jet. 31 00:02:08,628 --> 00:02:11,714 9/11 is almost like one of these novels when they start, 32 00:02:11,798 --> 00:02:14,843 "It was a beautiful, sunny day." You know, it started out like that. 33 00:02:14,926 --> 00:02:18,221 Well, for me, it was yet another day, uh, you know, 34 00:02:18,304 --> 00:02:21,015 of spending all night thinking about 35 00:02:21,099 --> 00:02:22,517 what you're gonna do the next day. 36 00:02:22,600 --> 00:02:25,145 You know, don't really sleep that well, ever. 37 00:02:28,273 --> 00:02:31,401 Some reports are that it was a small commuter plane 38 00:02:31,484 --> 00:02:35,196 that crashed into the upper floors of one of the Twin Towers. 39 00:02:35,280 --> 00:02:38,366 I had a TV screen up in the corner of my room. 40 00:02:38,449 --> 00:02:41,369 I was looking at it, and it was a beautiful day, blue sky. 41 00:02:41,911 --> 00:02:45,456 And there was this black hole in the tower. 42 00:02:45,540 --> 00:02:46,791 …90s. Have you… 43 00:02:46,875 --> 00:02:50,128 I thought, "Wow, that must be the world's worst pilot, right?" 44 00:02:50,211 --> 00:02:51,838 I mean, it's a beautiful day. 45 00:02:53,089 --> 00:02:56,718 The phone rings on my desk. I pick it up, recognize the guy's voice. 46 00:02:56,801 --> 00:02:58,887 He was an intelligence officer, 47 00:02:58,970 --> 00:03:01,514 and we had been in the Angolan War together. 48 00:03:01,598 --> 00:03:02,640 He started up, 49 00:03:02,724 --> 00:03:06,394 "Hey, Chief, we have a problem." He says, "I'm in the World Trade Center." 50 00:03:06,978 --> 00:03:08,438 He was in the other tower. 51 00:03:08,521 --> 00:03:13,860 He said, "A 737-like commercial airliner 52 00:03:13,943 --> 00:03:15,111 flew into the tower." 53 00:03:15,195 --> 00:03:16,446 He said, "The problem is, 54 00:03:16,529 --> 00:03:19,365 I was watching the control surfaces of the aircraft." 55 00:03:20,033 --> 00:03:22,619 "The pilot purposefully flew the plane 56 00:03:23,286 --> 00:03:24,370 into the tower." 57 00:03:25,205 --> 00:03:26,664 And then he said, 58 00:03:26,748 --> 00:03:29,417 "We've been struck. I'm evacuating my position." 59 00:03:41,512 --> 00:03:43,306 - Oh my God! - No! 60 00:03:45,141 --> 00:03:46,559 Oh my God! 61 00:03:50,939 --> 00:03:54,567 That's on purpose, Alfred. Somebody is doing this on purpose. 62 00:03:55,693 --> 00:03:57,528 Oh my goodness. 63 00:03:59,656 --> 00:04:03,201 The White House chief of staff went into the room with the President 64 00:04:03,284 --> 00:04:06,329 and whispered in his ear that a second plane has hit. 65 00:04:07,830 --> 00:04:09,290 America is under attack. 66 00:04:12,710 --> 00:04:14,796 The president sat there for a few moments, 67 00:04:14,879 --> 00:04:16,756 I think, not knowing quite what to do. 68 00:04:16,839 --> 00:04:18,216 Now, get ready. 69 00:04:18,716 --> 00:04:20,343 "The pet goat." 70 00:04:20,426 --> 00:04:22,262 Yes, the pet goat. 71 00:04:22,345 --> 00:04:24,973 Get ready to read the story the fast way. Get ready. 72 00:04:25,056 --> 00:04:27,183 "The girl had a…" 73 00:04:27,267 --> 00:04:29,519 You can see him being stunned by it, 74 00:04:29,602 --> 00:04:31,396 but also see his composure. 75 00:04:32,313 --> 00:04:34,565 Later, he would say he didn't wanna scare the kids. 76 00:04:34,649 --> 00:04:38,945 "Fred says we will try…" 77 00:04:39,028 --> 00:04:42,156 I'm standing there wondering if somebody's gonna fly a plane 78 00:04:42,240 --> 00:04:43,199 into the school. 79 00:04:50,331 --> 00:04:53,501 Director Tenet stated that we had threat intelligence 80 00:04:53,584 --> 00:04:57,005 that terrorists wanted to fly a plane into CIA headquarters. 81 00:04:57,088 --> 00:04:59,924 And I said, "That's fine, but we're not evacuating." 82 00:05:00,008 --> 00:05:01,301 He said, "You have to evac." 83 00:05:01,384 --> 00:05:04,012 "How about the people up in the… in the control center?" 84 00:05:04,095 --> 00:05:06,139 "They could all die. People in CTC." 85 00:05:06,222 --> 00:05:09,684 I said, "Well, they're all just gonna have to die." 86 00:05:13,229 --> 00:05:16,649 Now we have to respond to a crisis, and, you know, like soldiers, 87 00:05:17,150 --> 00:05:19,819 some of us aren't gonna be there at some point in the future. 88 00:05:32,749 --> 00:05:37,045 I remember our manager bringing us together and just saying, 89 00:05:37,128 --> 00:05:41,132 "The director has ordered an evacuation of the building 90 00:05:41,215 --> 00:05:43,217 except for the counterterrorist center." 91 00:05:43,718 --> 00:05:45,178 "We know what we have to do, 92 00:05:46,471 --> 00:05:47,847 and we're gonna do it." 93 00:05:49,265 --> 00:05:51,017 I turned to my colleagues and I said, 94 00:05:51,100 --> 00:05:54,062 "Call the people in your life to take care of your dog 95 00:05:54,145 --> 00:05:57,273 and lock up your house 'cause we're going to war." 96 00:05:57,357 --> 00:05:59,233 "We're gonna have to go 24-7 immediately." 97 00:06:00,485 --> 00:06:03,488 There wasn't time to, like, process how you felt. 98 00:06:03,571 --> 00:06:06,699 I remember some person crying and then kicking that person out 99 00:06:06,783 --> 00:06:09,494 because they don't wanna listen to you cry and we have things to do. 100 00:06:09,577 --> 00:06:13,206 So, like, at that moment, I really wasn't processing. 101 00:06:13,289 --> 00:06:17,251 I was just, "Whatever I'm told to do, like, let's do it." 102 00:06:20,046 --> 00:06:23,383 American 77 American, Indy radio check. 103 00:06:23,466 --> 00:06:24,592 How do you read? 104 00:06:26,928 --> 00:06:29,430 You never assume that's it. 105 00:06:29,514 --> 00:06:31,099 This was not it. There was more. 106 00:06:31,182 --> 00:06:33,434 The next attack. The next attack. When is the next attack? 107 00:06:33,518 --> 00:06:36,896 How is the next attack gonna happen? Is it gonna look like this or different? 108 00:06:36,979 --> 00:06:39,232 Trying to get ahold of American 77. 109 00:06:39,315 --> 00:06:42,485 They lost radar with him. They lost contact with him. 110 00:06:42,568 --> 00:06:45,738 They lost everything, and they don't have any idea where he is or what happened. 111 00:06:45,822 --> 00:06:48,699 We could have another loose aircraft out there somewhere. 112 00:06:48,783 --> 00:06:52,995 We're racing to see what else might be the target. 113 00:06:53,079 --> 00:06:53,955 At the same time, 114 00:06:54,038 --> 00:06:56,624 the FAA is trying to figure out what's going on with this aircraft. 115 00:06:56,707 --> 00:07:00,545 …everybody, know this now, American 77 may have been hijacked. 116 00:07:01,129 --> 00:07:04,173 {\an8}It doesn't take long before we're hearing reports of another hijacking, 117 00:07:04,257 --> 00:07:07,218 {\an8}and we're trying to immediately figure out where is it going. 118 00:07:07,301 --> 00:07:09,887 {\an8}Third aircraft hijacked heading towards Washington. 119 00:07:09,971 --> 00:07:12,098 It's the real thing. Let's go! 120 00:07:12,890 --> 00:07:14,767 This is Dulles Approach Control. 121 00:07:14,851 --> 00:07:17,937 We're tracking a fast-moving primary heading towards the White House. 122 00:07:18,020 --> 00:07:19,814 The White House has been advised. 123 00:07:24,360 --> 00:07:26,779 We were looking at all the threat reporting 124 00:07:26,863 --> 00:07:27,947 that you've ever looked at 125 00:07:28,030 --> 00:07:30,408 that you just thought was flaky or aspirational, 126 00:07:31,242 --> 00:07:34,370 now assuming any one of these things might come true. 127 00:07:37,373 --> 00:07:39,792 We were literally worried that terrorists were gonna 128 00:07:39,876 --> 00:07:42,378 attack CIA headquarters and we were all gonna die. 129 00:07:42,462 --> 00:07:44,881 I mean, I wasn't scared like I was a coward or anything. 130 00:07:44,964 --> 00:07:46,257 It was just… it was a fact. 131 00:07:48,426 --> 00:07:50,928 I was pregnant with my fourth child, 132 00:07:51,012 --> 00:07:53,514 and I was in the bathroom throwing up. 133 00:07:54,015 --> 00:07:55,266 My colleague was there. 134 00:07:55,850 --> 00:07:58,561 She wanted to go to the bathroom in case we were blown up, 135 00:07:58,644 --> 00:07:59,979 the building was blown up. 136 00:08:00,062 --> 00:08:02,982 And I was just like, "Oh God." 137 00:08:17,413 --> 00:08:19,457 Did you get ahold of American 77 by chance? 138 00:08:19,540 --> 00:08:21,626 - The guy hit the Pentagon. - Jesus Christ! 139 00:08:21,709 --> 00:08:22,710 Oh my God. 140 00:08:22,793 --> 00:08:25,129 Shut down all arrivals into National Airport. 141 00:08:27,757 --> 00:08:31,719 Never did any one of us inside the Pentagon think 142 00:08:31,802 --> 00:08:33,429 that our location was at risk. 143 00:08:33,513 --> 00:08:35,097 To us, it was a fortress. 144 00:08:40,728 --> 00:08:43,105 I felt the blast come from behind. 145 00:08:43,898 --> 00:08:46,275 Immediately, I sensed that I was on fire. 146 00:08:51,155 --> 00:08:53,407 Everything was burning all around me. 147 00:08:53,491 --> 00:08:55,618 I was clawing my way through. 148 00:08:56,452 --> 00:08:59,205 I could finally see some glimpses of daylight. 149 00:08:59,288 --> 00:09:00,540 And my adrenaline surged. 150 00:09:00,623 --> 00:09:06,754 And I stood up, and I walked out what was a big punch-out hole. 151 00:09:09,382 --> 00:09:11,842 Oh my goodness. Oh my goodness. 152 00:09:11,926 --> 00:09:14,387 There is smoke pouring out of the Pentagon. 153 00:09:20,351 --> 00:09:24,397 I had been burned on over 47% of my body, 154 00:09:24,981 --> 00:09:28,401 and I had inhaled so much jet fuel and smoke, 155 00:09:29,443 --> 00:09:30,945 I flatlined twice. 156 00:09:37,660 --> 00:09:41,122 Among my branch, I was the only, sole survivor. 157 00:09:52,258 --> 00:09:56,554 The president was, at that point, a prime target for terrorists. 158 00:09:57,138 --> 00:10:00,266 The Secret Service decided it was not safe to go back to Washington, 159 00:10:00,349 --> 00:10:02,351 but it wasn't clear where we were gonna go. 160 00:10:04,186 --> 00:10:06,314 We needed to get in the air immediately. 161 00:10:06,397 --> 00:10:08,691 We needed to get the President out of danger. 162 00:10:11,068 --> 00:10:14,030 Early in that morning, somebody had called the White House, 163 00:10:14,113 --> 00:10:17,033 said that there was a bomb on Air Force One. 164 00:10:18,451 --> 00:10:22,413 What concerned the Secret Service the most was that the caller knew the call sign 165 00:10:22,496 --> 00:10:23,956 for Air Force One, "Angel." 166 00:10:27,418 --> 00:10:28,753 When we got to the airport, 167 00:10:28,836 --> 00:10:30,838 Air Force One was ringed 168 00:10:30,921 --> 00:10:33,799 by Secret Service agents with their automatic weapons out. 169 00:10:35,051 --> 00:10:37,470 They were searching anything that anybody was carrying, 170 00:10:37,553 --> 00:10:38,929 no matter who you were. 171 00:10:39,013 --> 00:10:42,767 They searched my briefcase filled with top-secret documents. 172 00:10:42,850 --> 00:10:44,143 I didn't fight them. 173 00:10:47,980 --> 00:10:51,233 It was an extraordinarily steep takeoff. 174 00:11:02,995 --> 00:11:05,706 We learned we were gonna be flying around the Gulf of Mexico 175 00:11:05,790 --> 00:11:07,124 for quite some period of time. 176 00:11:10,586 --> 00:11:13,381 FAA just shut down all aircraft takeoffs… 177 00:11:15,758 --> 00:11:18,094 As we were heading to Andrews Air Force Base, 178 00:11:18,177 --> 00:11:21,097 I got up, and I looked out the windows, 179 00:11:21,180 --> 00:11:25,601 and there was a jet fighter on the wingtip of Air Force One. 180 00:11:27,019 --> 00:11:31,148 Should someone shoot a surface-to-air missile at Air Force One, 181 00:11:32,650 --> 00:11:36,278 the job of those fighters was to put themselves between that missile 182 00:11:36,362 --> 00:11:38,364 and the President of the United States. 183 00:11:46,080 --> 00:11:48,958 I was on the phone to the FAA. 184 00:11:49,041 --> 00:11:51,335 We got a phone call that came down to us saying 185 00:11:53,212 --> 00:11:55,464 We heard all air traffic was grounded, 186 00:11:55,548 --> 00:11:58,718 but there was still some plane up in the air that wasn't accounted for. 187 00:11:58,801 --> 00:12:00,386 United 93, Cleveland. 188 00:12:03,305 --> 00:12:05,224 We have a bomb on board. 189 00:12:06,308 --> 00:12:09,562 I really can only express what was almost like an air of panic. 190 00:12:10,271 --> 00:12:13,566 We realized there's more coming. There's another attack coming. 191 00:12:13,649 --> 00:12:16,944 He's reversing course over Akron. He's heading eastbound. 192 00:12:17,027 --> 00:12:20,740 About 25 miles out of Washington, D.C., 193 00:12:20,823 --> 00:12:23,242 headed in this general direction. 194 00:12:24,034 --> 00:12:29,415 People on flight 93 were getting reports about planes being hijacked. 195 00:12:29,498 --> 00:12:33,836 Passengers didn't want flight 93 to become a weapon. 196 00:12:35,129 --> 00:12:36,380 Honey, are you there? 197 00:12:36,964 --> 00:12:39,091 We're having a little problem on the plane. 198 00:12:41,051 --> 00:12:43,095 Apparently, they've flown a couple of planes 199 00:12:43,179 --> 00:12:44,597 into the World Trade Center already. 200 00:12:44,680 --> 00:12:46,974 It looks like they're gonna take this one down as well. 201 00:12:47,057 --> 00:12:49,477 United 93, waving his wings. 202 00:12:49,560 --> 00:12:51,729 They don't quite know what it means. 203 00:12:51,812 --> 00:12:56,442 The passengers on flight 93, they charged the terrorists 204 00:12:56,525 --> 00:13:01,071 and had a fight in the cockpit with the hijackers… 205 00:13:06,660 --> 00:13:11,665 …preventing it from becoming a weapon to be used against the US Capitol. 206 00:13:14,335 --> 00:13:16,712 United 93, have you got information on that? 207 00:13:16,796 --> 00:13:19,006 - Yeah, he's down. - When did he land? 208 00:13:19,089 --> 00:13:21,425 He… he did… he did not land. 209 00:13:39,652 --> 00:13:42,196 I joined a small group of people 210 00:13:42,279 --> 00:13:45,407 in the senior staff compartment of Air Force One, 211 00:13:45,991 --> 00:13:47,618 and we were watching television. 212 00:13:48,244 --> 00:13:50,955 Take two. Take two in two, one. 213 00:13:51,038 --> 00:13:53,749 This is as close as we can get to the base of the World Trade Center. 214 00:13:53,833 --> 00:13:57,670 You can see the firemen assembled here, the police officers, FBI agents, 215 00:13:57,753 --> 00:14:00,047 and you can see the two towers. 216 00:14:00,130 --> 00:14:03,467 A huge explosion now raining debris on all of us. 217 00:14:03,551 --> 00:14:05,678 We better get out of the way! 218 00:14:09,557 --> 00:14:11,475 Oh my God! No! 219 00:14:26,115 --> 00:14:27,950 The president looked me in the eye, 220 00:14:28,033 --> 00:14:30,494 and he said, "Michael, who did this?" 221 00:14:33,998 --> 00:14:37,418 As an intelligence officer, you always have to know 222 00:14:37,501 --> 00:14:40,421 what do you really know? What don't you know? 223 00:14:41,046 --> 00:14:42,923 And based on those two things, what do you think? 224 00:14:47,970 --> 00:14:49,221 Who was responsible? 225 00:14:49,305 --> 00:14:52,016 Let's put everything on the table that we know about this 226 00:14:52,099 --> 00:14:54,643 and whatever anyone wants to say. 227 00:14:56,687 --> 00:15:00,691 I was working with the FAA, trying to track some of the conspirators. 228 00:15:01,358 --> 00:15:05,654 I really tried to focus on that information that was coming in. 229 00:15:05,738 --> 00:15:07,948 American Airlines, flight 11. 230 00:15:08,032 --> 00:15:10,659 The team was able to receive the flight manifests. 231 00:15:10,743 --> 00:15:11,911 Flight 93. 232 00:15:11,994 --> 00:15:15,122 Those are the documents that show who was on the plane. 233 00:15:15,623 --> 00:15:20,085 You know the terrorists are going to be on the plane manifests. 234 00:15:20,169 --> 00:15:25,382 So we started trying to identify anyone with a name that we would recognize. 235 00:15:25,466 --> 00:15:27,593 Fifty-eight passengers and a crew of… 236 00:15:27,676 --> 00:15:30,721 Flight 11 with 81 passengers, nine flight attendants, and two pilots. 237 00:15:30,804 --> 00:15:34,391 Do name checks with passports as they were scanned 238 00:15:35,225 --> 00:15:39,605 and researching them against known terrorist groups, 239 00:15:39,688 --> 00:15:42,524 narrowing down the likely suspects. 240 00:15:47,196 --> 00:15:50,324 All of a sudden, an analyst burst into the room 241 00:15:50,407 --> 00:15:52,159 holding a piece of paper and waving it 242 00:15:52,242 --> 00:15:55,079 and saying, "I have a manifest from one of the airplanes." 243 00:15:55,829 --> 00:15:59,500 There was a name on that manifest that was suspected of being 244 00:15:59,583 --> 00:16:01,543 a pretty major al-Qaida operative. 245 00:16:02,586 --> 00:16:07,341 For years, that is the terrorist group that we knew was determined 246 00:16:07,424 --> 00:16:09,301 to attack the United States. 247 00:16:09,843 --> 00:16:15,015 That name, that moment, there's just no way that's a coincidence. 248 00:16:15,849 --> 00:16:21,313 We knew immediately this was Osama bin Laden. 249 00:16:23,941 --> 00:16:26,026 Okay, case closed. 250 00:16:26,110 --> 00:16:27,987 This is an al-Qaida operation. 251 00:16:33,075 --> 00:16:35,369 The president had been informed, of course. 252 00:16:35,452 --> 00:16:37,454 Michael Morell was with him as a briefer. 253 00:16:39,623 --> 00:16:43,168 And I told him, "Mr. President, I believe it is a non-state actor." 254 00:16:43,669 --> 00:16:45,587 "I believe it is al-Qaida." 255 00:16:45,671 --> 00:16:47,464 "I believe it is bin Laden, 256 00:16:47,548 --> 00:16:50,384 and I would bet my children's future on that." 257 00:16:50,467 --> 00:16:52,678 We had a video conversation with him 258 00:16:52,761 --> 00:16:57,474 in which we gave our initial impressions of what had happened, who was responsible. 259 00:16:58,434 --> 00:17:02,187 He said, "Rally a worldwide coalition." 260 00:17:02,271 --> 00:17:04,231 "We will find them and destroy them." 261 00:17:08,360 --> 00:17:10,195 And now it starts. 262 00:17:22,791 --> 00:17:24,626 As a kid, I loved puzzles, 263 00:17:24,710 --> 00:17:28,213 especially the five-minute mystery kind of puzzles 264 00:17:28,881 --> 00:17:31,884 {\an8}where you had a little story and a handful of clues, 265 00:17:31,967 --> 00:17:34,511 and you had to figure it out in, like, five minutes. 266 00:17:35,721 --> 00:17:37,347 I liked the pressure. 267 00:17:37,431 --> 00:17:41,226 Little did I know that that would be very helpful many years later. 268 00:17:43,520 --> 00:17:46,440 It does seem weird that I wanted to join the CIA after Vietnam. 269 00:17:46,523 --> 00:17:49,359 There was protesting. People didn't think the CIA was cool. 270 00:17:50,986 --> 00:17:53,614 But I knew that the analysts at the CIA did a lot more 271 00:17:53,697 --> 00:17:55,616 than was the public perception. 272 00:17:56,366 --> 00:17:59,495 They were trying to understand the world to really help the nation, 273 00:17:59,578 --> 00:18:01,080 and I wanted to do that. 274 00:18:01,914 --> 00:18:05,209 I was lucky as an undergrad to get an interview with the CIA, 275 00:18:05,292 --> 00:18:06,835 and they accepted me. 276 00:18:14,176 --> 00:18:16,637 In 1993, there was a small group 277 00:18:16,720 --> 00:18:19,181 in the CIA focusing on bin Laden. 278 00:18:19,890 --> 00:18:21,183 Mostly women. 279 00:18:23,227 --> 00:18:26,105 When we first stumbled upon Osama bin Laden, 280 00:18:26,688 --> 00:18:28,190 we learned that he was related 281 00:18:28,273 --> 00:18:32,111 to a very wealthy and influential family in Saudi Arabia. 282 00:18:33,070 --> 00:18:34,613 Throughout the 1980s, 283 00:18:34,696 --> 00:18:36,949 he was this rich benefactor 284 00:18:37,533 --> 00:18:41,411 helping the Afghans in resisting the Soviets. 285 00:18:41,495 --> 00:18:43,372 Allah has blessed us, 286 00:18:43,455 --> 00:18:47,918 and we came to support our brothers in Afghanistan. 287 00:18:48,836 --> 00:18:52,881 This legend grew about these dedicated fighters 288 00:18:52,965 --> 00:18:57,052 in the cave in Afghanistan trying to protect their country 289 00:18:57,136 --> 00:18:59,179 from the evil Soviet Union, which invaded. 290 00:18:59,847 --> 00:19:03,225 And the United States was also fighting against the Soviet Union. 291 00:19:03,809 --> 00:19:07,980 So the feeling was that these are noble fighters. 292 00:19:08,564 --> 00:19:12,276 US support for the rebels totaled hundreds of millions of dollars, 293 00:19:12,359 --> 00:19:15,696 one of the largest covert operations ever run by the CIA. 294 00:19:16,864 --> 00:19:17,906 Allahu Akbar! 295 00:19:17,990 --> 00:19:19,074 It's over. 296 00:19:19,158 --> 00:19:21,034 The day no one thought would come. 297 00:19:21,118 --> 00:19:23,120 The era of Soviet military intervention 298 00:19:23,203 --> 00:19:25,455 in other countries is now over. 299 00:19:27,207 --> 00:19:31,253 Bin Laden was coming off this high of having won in Afghanistan 300 00:19:31,336 --> 00:19:34,006 with this idea that this is the way 301 00:19:34,089 --> 00:19:37,634 we're going to change the regimes in the Middle East. 302 00:19:40,012 --> 00:19:45,017 He wanted to usher in a new Islamic empire. 303 00:19:45,642 --> 00:19:48,687 He said he wanted to get the Western influence out of the region.B 304 00:19:50,105 --> 00:19:53,233 Bin Laden hated America for intervening in the Muslim world 305 00:19:53,317 --> 00:19:57,362 and for propping up these infidel leaders. 306 00:19:57,446 --> 00:19:59,740 Bin Laden saw the United States 307 00:19:59,823 --> 00:20:02,993 as supporting everything that they believed was wrong. 308 00:20:03,076 --> 00:20:06,747 Liberal democracy, that you don't have to be religious, 309 00:20:06,830 --> 00:20:09,458 that women should have an equal role in society. 310 00:20:10,042 --> 00:20:13,420 These are all things that were anathema to that fundamentalist movement 311 00:20:13,503 --> 00:20:15,505 where bin Laden and his friends were. 312 00:20:16,590 --> 00:20:20,469 So they had a meeting, and out of that, 313 00:20:20,552 --> 00:20:21,970 bin Laden formed al-Qaida. 314 00:20:22,679 --> 00:20:23,972 And that was 1988. 315 00:20:25,891 --> 00:20:28,143 We followed this progression. 316 00:20:28,977 --> 00:20:32,898 We had known that bin Laden was operating training camps and safe houses 317 00:20:32,981 --> 00:20:34,316 against the Soviet Union. 318 00:20:35,234 --> 00:20:37,069 When the war was over, 319 00:20:37,152 --> 00:20:40,364 we discovered that he turned those camps 320 00:20:40,447 --> 00:20:43,659 into training camps for Islamic militants 321 00:20:44,409 --> 00:20:47,079 to go out and attack other countries. 322 00:20:48,664 --> 00:20:50,874 We knew they had terrorist capabilities, 323 00:20:51,458 --> 00:20:53,043 but we didn't know 324 00:20:53,126 --> 00:20:55,879 to what extent they were gonna come directly after the US. 325 00:21:04,137 --> 00:21:08,183 {\an8}In 1992, there was an attack against US servicemen in Yemen. 326 00:21:09,393 --> 00:21:11,103 We did some investigation, 327 00:21:11,937 --> 00:21:15,065 and the little breadcrumbs led back to bin Laden. 328 00:21:17,985 --> 00:21:21,363 And that's when I personally came to understand 329 00:21:22,155 --> 00:21:24,116 that he was coming after us. 330 00:21:25,826 --> 00:21:27,911 Four Americans have been killed this morning 331 00:21:27,995 --> 00:21:29,788 in explosions in Saudi Arabia.- 332 00:21:29,871 --> 00:21:33,250 {\an8}It was a name that was surfacing from the CIA, Osama bin Laden. 333 00:21:33,959 --> 00:21:37,504 210 people died in bomb attacks on US embassies. 334 00:21:37,587 --> 00:21:40,632 The worst acts of anti-US terrorism in years. 335 00:21:40,716 --> 00:21:44,886 Osama bin Laden, possible mastermind of the East Africa bombings. 336 00:21:44,970 --> 00:21:46,763 Five American sailors were killed. 337 00:21:46,847 --> 00:21:51,018 The worst terrorist attack against a US ship in modern history. 338 00:21:51,101 --> 00:21:53,729 The prime suspect named Osama bin Laden. 339 00:21:54,313 --> 00:21:57,482 I put dots on a map, and you could see it like in a belt all across the world. 340 00:21:59,401 --> 00:22:01,570 It was almost everywhere. 341 00:22:02,362 --> 00:22:06,825 It seemed to us the beginning of a new wave of terrorism. 342 00:22:12,956 --> 00:22:15,709 In the months leading up to 9/11, 343 00:22:15,792 --> 00:22:17,294 we had intelligence reporting 344 00:22:17,377 --> 00:22:21,006 that al-Qaida had a threat against American targets. 345 00:22:22,674 --> 00:22:25,177 We'd not seen a spike in reporting like this before. 346 00:22:25,260 --> 00:22:28,138 All of the indicators were that something big was happening. 347 00:22:29,639 --> 00:22:32,642 We got reporting that people in bin Laden's network 348 00:22:32,726 --> 00:22:34,770 were calling their mothers and telling them goodbye 349 00:22:34,853 --> 00:22:35,854 and stuff like that. 350 00:22:35,937 --> 00:22:38,774 I mean, something very serious was about to happen. 351 00:22:39,775 --> 00:22:43,403 People we were following in Afghanistan were leaving the camps. 352 00:22:43,487 --> 00:22:48,075 {\an8}There was a public statement by bin Laden saying there would be a big surprise. 353 00:22:48,158 --> 00:22:52,371 {\an8}Wherever you are, death will come for you. 354 00:22:52,454 --> 00:22:55,457 They're talking Armageddon. This is gonna be bad. 355 00:22:56,291 --> 00:22:59,294 We sent in the vicinity of 100 messages 356 00:22:59,378 --> 00:23:02,464 to the FAA, Customs and Border Patrol 357 00:23:02,547 --> 00:23:06,426 about potential for trouble with airlines and terrorists. 358 00:23:07,177 --> 00:23:08,762 Over the past five years, 359 00:23:08,845 --> 00:23:11,473 we warned that the most likely targets would be 360 00:23:11,556 --> 00:23:15,852 "national symbols such as the White House and the Capitol 361 00:23:16,561 --> 00:23:18,397 and symbols of US capitalism." 362 00:23:19,773 --> 00:23:23,652 "Terrorists are developing new ways to attack aviation targets." 363 00:23:24,736 --> 00:23:26,738 Morning July 10th, the head of the al-Qaida section 364 00:23:26,822 --> 00:23:29,699 walked into my office, and he said, "Chief, the roof's fallen in." 365 00:23:29,783 --> 00:23:32,494 "Threat indicators are just off the chart." 366 00:23:32,994 --> 00:23:35,622 "This country's gotta go on a war footing now." 367 00:23:36,623 --> 00:23:38,291 I briefed the president 368 00:23:38,375 --> 00:23:42,129 about bin Laden planning multiple operations. 369 00:23:42,712 --> 00:23:45,257 "Bin Laden attacks may be imminent." 370 00:23:45,882 --> 00:23:47,759 "Spectacular attacks." 371 00:23:47,843 --> 00:23:50,387 "History-changing attacks." 372 00:23:51,596 --> 00:23:55,058 I remember walking into the head of the al-Qaida unit. 373 00:23:55,642 --> 00:23:58,061 Against one wall were piles of paper, 374 00:23:58,895 --> 00:24:01,481 and they were all stacked right next to each other. 375 00:24:02,065 --> 00:24:04,776 I said, "What is all that paper on the floor?" 376 00:24:05,569 --> 00:24:06,695 He said, "Oh." 377 00:24:07,279 --> 00:24:11,116 "That's when we have the disaster and thousands of Americans are dead." 378 00:24:11,199 --> 00:24:13,285 "We made a copy of every briefing, 379 00:24:13,368 --> 00:24:15,912 every threat report, everything that we gave." 380 00:24:15,996 --> 00:24:18,290 I said, "That's a lot of paper." 381 00:24:18,373 --> 00:24:19,916 He said, "Yes, it is." 382 00:24:20,000 --> 00:24:23,628 The frustrating thing about all of this reporting 383 00:24:24,129 --> 00:24:26,715 was it was not clear about when, 384 00:24:27,799 --> 00:24:29,968 where, or how. 385 00:24:35,348 --> 00:24:37,976 The second tower in the World Trade Center is teetering-- 386 00:24:38,059 --> 00:24:40,979 Oh, there it goes! There it goes! There it goes! There it goes! 387 00:24:41,062 --> 00:24:43,607 The other tower of the World Trade Center 388 00:24:43,690 --> 00:24:45,442 has just collapsed. 389 00:24:50,989 --> 00:24:54,284 It's no exaggeration to say that we woke up every day thinking, 390 00:24:54,367 --> 00:24:55,368 "It's on us." 391 00:24:57,037 --> 00:25:00,624 You can't not feel responsibility 392 00:25:00,707 --> 00:25:03,710 for not stopping an attack that occurred on your watch. 393 00:25:04,211 --> 00:25:06,922 And so you can't help but, like, question yourself. 394 00:25:07,464 --> 00:25:09,049 You know, just question yourself a lot. 395 00:25:11,885 --> 00:25:14,137 I got in my car and started driving home. 396 00:25:14,221 --> 00:25:18,475 And it was on that drive that I broke down, and I started to cry. 397 00:25:19,059 --> 00:25:20,602 And I cried all the way home. 398 00:25:23,939 --> 00:25:25,148 It was our job. 399 00:25:26,816 --> 00:25:27,817 Our number one job. 400 00:25:29,319 --> 00:25:30,362 And we failed. 401 00:25:31,613 --> 00:25:33,865 Here is America, 402 00:25:34,366 --> 00:25:37,118 struck by God Almighty 403 00:25:37,619 --> 00:25:40,705 in one of its vital organsB 404 00:25:41,831 --> 00:25:45,377 so that its greatest buildings are destroyed. 405 00:25:46,044 --> 00:25:47,796 Praise be to Allah. 406 00:25:52,801 --> 00:25:56,388 And I remember the thought I had was, "Nothing will ever be the same." 407 00:25:58,974 --> 00:26:00,684 And it turns out it wasn't. 408 00:26:04,771 --> 00:26:06,940 We knew the Taliban government in Afghanistan 409 00:26:07,023 --> 00:26:08,900 provided a safe haven to bin Laden. 410 00:26:10,068 --> 00:26:14,656 I said something to the effect of, "Look, we just need to tell the Taliban 411 00:26:14,739 --> 00:26:18,201 to give us bin Laden, or we will rain hell on them." 412 00:26:19,828 --> 00:26:24,583 We did give the Taliban an opportunity to turn bin Laden over, and they refused. 413 00:26:30,797 --> 00:26:35,010 On Saturday, President Bush wants to have a meeting of his war cabinet. 414 00:26:36,803 --> 00:26:38,847 I walk up to the president, 415 00:26:38,930 --> 00:26:41,891 who is talking to somebody from State Department, 416 00:26:41,975 --> 00:26:45,437 encouraging him to give diplomacy a chance. 417 00:26:45,520 --> 00:26:48,773 And the president said, "Fuck diplomacy. We're going to war." 418 00:26:49,733 --> 00:26:53,445 I've asked the highest levels of our government to come to discuss, 419 00:26:53,528 --> 00:26:56,656 uh, the current tragedy. We'll find those who did it. 420 00:26:56,740 --> 00:26:58,825 We will smoke 'em out of their holes. 421 00:26:59,534 --> 00:27:03,204 We will get 'em running, and we'll bring 'em to justice. 422 00:27:03,288 --> 00:27:04,289 We're at war. 423 00:27:04,372 --> 00:27:07,917 - How long do you visualize-- - Thank you. We're stepping out now. 424 00:27:08,668 --> 00:27:11,004 The definition is, "Whatever it takes." 425 00:27:11,504 --> 00:27:16,009 The meeting that followed was to decide what are we gonna do. 426 00:27:16,635 --> 00:27:20,347 I didn't know whether CIA would be in the lead 427 00:27:20,430 --> 00:27:23,058 or whether it would be the Defense Department. 428 00:27:24,017 --> 00:27:27,479 The Department of Defense has military plans for almost everything. 429 00:27:27,562 --> 00:27:29,856 That's what they do. They plan for war. 430 00:27:29,939 --> 00:27:32,025 The president turned to Donald Rumsfeld and said, 431 00:27:32,108 --> 00:27:35,028 "How long, Don, before we can invade Afghanistan?" 432 00:27:35,111 --> 00:27:37,864 And his response was, "Approximately six months." 433 00:27:39,407 --> 00:27:43,995 Cofer Black, chief of counterterrorism, was sitting behind George Tenet. 434 00:27:44,079 --> 00:27:47,123 He didn't have a place at the table, but Cofer's not afraid to speak up. 435 00:27:48,750 --> 00:27:51,211 If you ever read much about General George Patton, 436 00:27:51,836 --> 00:27:54,047 he will tell you half of leadership is theater. 437 00:27:54,798 --> 00:27:57,509 I slid my chair a little closer to the table, 438 00:27:57,592 --> 00:27:59,177 put my elbows on the table. 439 00:27:59,886 --> 00:28:02,931 He turned to me. He looked me right in the eye. 440 00:28:04,683 --> 00:28:06,935 I stared at him for five seconds, 441 00:28:07,477 --> 00:28:10,980 and then I said very simply, "Mr. President…" 442 00:28:14,192 --> 00:28:16,194 And I will not tell you what I said next, 443 00:28:16,277 --> 00:28:20,281 but it very succinctly and graphically would translate to… 444 00:28:20,365 --> 00:28:23,910 "If you'll let me do it, I'll have flies walking on their eyeballs 445 00:28:23,993 --> 00:28:25,412 in six weeks." 446 00:28:25,495 --> 00:28:27,372 He goes, "That's what I'm talking about." 447 00:28:29,416 --> 00:28:33,545 And Bush said, "You're in charge," to Cofer. 448 00:28:34,462 --> 00:28:38,842 Donald Rumsfeld almost shit his pants. 449 00:28:38,925 --> 00:28:42,178 The worst attack on the United States since Pearl Harbor, 450 00:28:42,762 --> 00:28:45,515 he was supposed to be his big boy defending America, 451 00:28:46,182 --> 00:28:50,645 and the whole thing just got handed off to an intelligence officer 452 00:28:50,729 --> 00:28:54,315 who wasn't even a cabinet member seven seats away. 453 00:28:54,399 --> 00:28:56,192 I want… I want justice. 454 00:28:56,818 --> 00:29:00,071 And, uh, uh, there's an old poster out West, 455 00:29:00,155 --> 00:29:03,533 as I recall, that said, "Wanted, dead or alive." 456 00:29:04,576 --> 00:29:07,162 Close curtain, end of game. 457 00:29:11,291 --> 00:29:14,169 Cofer Black called me on the phone and said, 458 00:29:14,252 --> 00:29:15,712 "They're going to invade Afghanistan, 459 00:29:15,795 --> 00:29:18,882 and your name has been presented as the person that's gonna lead 460 00:29:18,965 --> 00:29:20,216 the biggest part of it." 461 00:29:22,510 --> 00:29:25,722 {\an8}I went home that night and I told my spouse 462 00:29:25,805 --> 00:29:28,475 {\an8}that I would be leaving for Afghanistan. 463 00:29:29,267 --> 00:29:30,518 She didn't want me to go. 464 00:29:31,102 --> 00:29:33,104 Her response had been, 465 00:29:33,688 --> 00:29:35,356 "Let someone else do this one." 466 00:29:37,275 --> 00:29:38,485 "No, I'm going." 467 00:29:39,360 --> 00:29:40,904 "I will go no matter what." 468 00:29:42,489 --> 00:29:43,656 "No matter what." 469 00:29:49,162 --> 00:29:51,873 I go to the office, and there was Hank Crumpton, 470 00:29:52,373 --> 00:29:55,418 who was tasked to organize the deployment to Afghanistan. 471 00:29:56,544 --> 00:29:59,130 We used the code name "Jawbreaker." 472 00:29:59,214 --> 00:30:04,093 {\an8}There were only about a half a dozen of us in what was a new unit.♠ 473 00:30:04,844 --> 00:30:06,846 We started to assemble small teams. 474 00:30:06,930 --> 00:30:10,642 {\an8}Case officers, paramilitary officers, linguists, communicators. 475 00:30:10,725 --> 00:30:13,895 None of the CIA teams was bigger than eight people. 476 00:30:13,978 --> 00:30:16,940 And we had 13 teams at the total. 477 00:30:17,023 --> 00:30:20,109 We would be sending in teams behind enemy lines 478 00:30:20,193 --> 00:30:22,111 to work with our Afghan allies, 479 00:30:22,195 --> 00:30:24,072 the Northern Alliance, 480 00:30:25,073 --> 00:30:29,828 who were already fighting the Taliban to find, engage, and destroy al-Qaida. 481 00:30:31,204 --> 00:30:32,872 I briefed the teams. 482 00:30:32,956 --> 00:30:36,000 In a crisis like this, you've gotta hammer through to people, 483 00:30:36,084 --> 00:30:37,585 "This is different." 484 00:30:37,669 --> 00:30:40,380 His orders were very clear and very blunt. 485 00:30:40,463 --> 00:30:44,592 Told us he wanted to have bin Laden's head brought back in dry ice. 486 00:30:44,676 --> 00:30:46,553 He wanted bin Laden's head on a stick. 487 00:30:46,636 --> 00:30:49,347 Cut his head off and bring it back in a box for the president. 488 00:30:49,430 --> 00:30:50,890 This isn't a Walt Disney movie. 489 00:30:51,766 --> 00:30:56,145 He could be specific, graphic, and very clear in his message to us. 490 00:31:02,318 --> 00:31:04,654 I was working with the operations side 491 00:31:04,737 --> 00:31:07,490 on trying to track bin Laden all day long, every day. 492 00:31:07,991 --> 00:31:10,451 And so, when he made an appearance on television, 493 00:31:10,535 --> 00:31:12,287 it would be analyzed to death. 494 00:31:13,788 --> 00:31:16,833 Was this recently recorded? Was the backdrop new? 495 00:31:16,916 --> 00:31:20,545 Is he saying something new? Can we tell by the backdrop where he is? 496 00:31:20,628 --> 00:31:23,548 How did the recording get to Al Jazeera? 497 00:31:24,048 --> 00:31:25,425 Can we find the couriers? 498 00:31:25,508 --> 00:31:28,052 All that kind of analysis happened every time he spoke. 499 00:31:28,887 --> 00:31:29,971 Where could he have gone? 500 00:31:30,763 --> 00:31:34,767 We were going to war, full out, against bin Laden. 501 00:31:39,731 --> 00:31:42,275 Tonight, we are a country awakened to danger 502 00:31:43,776 --> 00:31:46,154 and called to defend freedom. 503 00:31:47,071 --> 00:31:49,699 Whether we bring our enemies to justice 504 00:31:50,783 --> 00:31:52,702 or bring justice to our enemies, 505 00:31:53,453 --> 00:31:55,288 justice will be done. 506 00:31:57,790 --> 00:32:01,544 The president has clearly been preparing the nation for war. 507 00:32:07,175 --> 00:32:10,803 We flew in on one helicopter, very heavy. 508 00:32:10,887 --> 00:32:13,514 There were ten of us. 509 00:32:13,598 --> 00:32:16,017 Just two weeks after the events of 9/11. 510 00:32:25,693 --> 00:32:28,988 Hank said to me, "There's an agreement between us and the military." 511 00:32:29,072 --> 00:32:31,407 "You will send a CIA team on the ground, 512 00:32:31,491 --> 00:32:34,202 and if they are alive after two weeks, 513 00:32:34,285 --> 00:32:37,205 a special forces team will be permitted to join you." 514 00:32:37,789 --> 00:32:40,458 I said, "How about they come with me when I set up?" 515 00:32:40,541 --> 00:32:43,127 You know? "'Cause I'd like the additional guns." 516 00:32:43,211 --> 00:32:44,963 He said, "That's the deal." 517 00:32:48,132 --> 00:32:50,426 From the beginning, we're trying to find bin Laden, 518 00:32:50,510 --> 00:32:51,886 doing everything possible. 519 00:32:55,056 --> 00:32:59,435 We used a warlord to set up a meeting between us and the leading Taliban. 520 00:32:59,519 --> 00:33:04,732 The Taliban were a radical Muslim movement who governed Afghanistan. 521 00:33:05,400 --> 00:33:08,027 Their hatred of the West aligned with bin Laden, 522 00:33:08,111 --> 00:33:11,322 so they gave al-Qaida safe harbor there. 523 00:33:12,532 --> 00:33:16,411 In order to get bin Laden, we had to go through the Taliban first. 524 00:33:17,495 --> 00:33:19,163 People from their intelligence service 525 00:33:19,247 --> 00:33:23,209 agreed to come to the meeting under the principles of Pashtunwali. 526 00:33:23,292 --> 00:33:25,503 One warlord will have sanctuary, 527 00:33:25,586 --> 00:33:28,464 and both sides can come in and have an equal meeting there 528 00:33:28,548 --> 00:33:30,008 and both be safe. 529 00:33:30,091 --> 00:33:32,760 So I sent a team forward to do that. 530 00:33:34,679 --> 00:33:36,222 Told them, "When you get there, 531 00:33:36,723 --> 00:33:39,308 if these Afghans are cooperative, 532 00:33:39,392 --> 00:33:40,935 do the deal with them." 533 00:33:41,019 --> 00:33:44,605 "If they're not, kill them or kidnap them." 534 00:33:45,106 --> 00:33:46,190 "Your choice." 535 00:33:48,776 --> 00:33:50,111 Our guys asked them, 536 00:33:50,194 --> 00:33:52,030 "Where is Osama bin Laden?" 537 00:33:52,113 --> 00:33:54,365 And their answer was, "Osama who?" 538 00:33:55,074 --> 00:33:56,993 That was kind of a mistake on their part. 539 00:33:57,785 --> 00:34:00,371 Our guys drew weapons on everybody, 540 00:34:00,455 --> 00:34:02,915 tied them up, gagged them, threw them in the vehicles, 541 00:34:02,999 --> 00:34:04,375 and drove away with them. 542 00:34:10,882 --> 00:34:12,258 By November, 543 00:34:12,341 --> 00:34:16,804 there were approximately 410 Americans on the ground throughout Afghanistan. 544 00:34:17,388 --> 00:34:20,141 The various teams were heavily outnumbered. 545 00:34:21,392 --> 00:34:24,395 I went over overhead photography with Hank Crumpton, 546 00:34:24,479 --> 00:34:27,315 and we could see that at the Khyber Pass 547 00:34:27,398 --> 00:34:30,401 and at other places of entry into Afghanistan, 548 00:34:30,485 --> 00:34:33,321 there were traffic jams 549 00:34:34,280 --> 00:34:36,824 of five and ten miles long. 550 00:34:36,908 --> 00:34:40,536 It looked like every jihadist in the Middle East 551 00:34:40,620 --> 00:34:44,332 was trying to come in to join the fight against the infidels, 552 00:34:44,415 --> 00:34:45,291 us. 553 00:34:46,876 --> 00:34:50,379 There was an inherent weakness to what we were trying to do 554 00:34:50,463 --> 00:34:52,840 with the very limited resources that we had. 555 00:34:53,508 --> 00:34:55,927 We were outnumbered by the enemy, 556 00:34:56,010 --> 00:34:57,595 but we had air power. 557 00:35:01,849 --> 00:35:06,104 Just before September 11th, I was briefed into an armed-drone program. 558 00:35:09,190 --> 00:35:12,151 I remember asking, you know, "Am I gonna have to kill anyone with this?" 559 00:35:12,235 --> 00:35:14,320 I didn't know how I felt. I was 22, maybe. 560 00:35:14,403 --> 00:35:17,115 But I think after September 11th, um, 561 00:35:17,198 --> 00:35:20,785 obviously, uh, I didn't feel as conflicted. 562 00:35:23,788 --> 00:35:27,667 I was a junior in college. I went to a career fair, 563 00:35:27,750 --> 00:35:29,418 and the CIA was at a table there. 564 00:35:29,502 --> 00:35:30,837 Here's my resume. 565 00:35:32,421 --> 00:35:34,966 They really honed in on this leadership position 566 00:35:35,049 --> 00:35:37,385 that I had in my sorority. 567 00:35:38,177 --> 00:35:40,555 I was a vice president in my house. 568 00:35:41,556 --> 00:35:43,349 Sometimes it would be really difficult. 569 00:35:43,432 --> 00:35:47,645 Sometimes you're expelling women for making really poor choices. 570 00:35:49,605 --> 00:35:54,152 I was willing to sacrifice popularity and being liked 571 00:35:54,235 --> 00:35:57,613 for the betterment of the entirety of my sorority, 572 00:35:57,697 --> 00:36:00,366 and that spoke to sort of, I guess, my moral turpitude. 573 00:36:00,449 --> 00:36:02,451 I don't know, but that's what they said. 574 00:36:04,453 --> 00:36:06,789 I was placed in the counterterrorism center. 575 00:36:10,418 --> 00:36:14,463 So with Jawbreaker, we started identifying targets, 576 00:36:14,547 --> 00:36:17,091 and we would rely on a lot of intelligence 577 00:36:17,175 --> 00:36:19,010 that we were getting from the ground folks. 578 00:36:23,890 --> 00:36:27,643 Our team, the CIA team, is working with the Northern Alliance, 579 00:36:27,727 --> 00:36:31,147 and we're running sources across enemy lines. 580 00:36:32,273 --> 00:36:35,234 And I have people with what look like cell phones, 581 00:36:35,318 --> 00:36:37,028 but, really, they're GPSs, 582 00:36:37,111 --> 00:36:40,198 and they walk up to a building, they see it's a Taliban building, 583 00:36:40,281 --> 00:36:41,699 and they mark it. 584 00:36:41,782 --> 00:36:44,243 And then they mark another one. Then they mark another one. 585 00:36:44,827 --> 00:36:50,917 And now, I send that report back to CIA and say, "Okay, Taliban at this building." 586 00:36:51,000 --> 00:36:52,752 "Taliban in this facility." 587 00:36:53,336 --> 00:36:57,590 We are targeting those individuals and taking them out. 588 00:36:57,673 --> 00:37:00,092 - Ready when you are. - Ready. 589 00:37:03,429 --> 00:37:06,641 I think al-Qaida was like, "Does someone have a GPS up their ass?" 590 00:37:06,724 --> 00:37:09,185 "Like, why are we all dying?" 591 00:37:09,268 --> 00:37:13,439 I don't think they fully understood, right, what this was. 592 00:37:17,318 --> 00:37:21,322 That probably made the ground folks' jobs better. 593 00:37:29,121 --> 00:37:31,207 Allahu Akbar! Allah! 594 00:37:32,166 --> 00:37:35,711 I had the zone in Afghanistan which controlled the east, 595 00:37:35,795 --> 00:37:39,882 and probably 95% of the al-Qaida in the country were in my area. 596 00:37:41,300 --> 00:37:45,012 We had Afghan forces on mountaintops with radios all over the place 597 00:37:45,096 --> 00:37:46,430 looking for bin Laden. 598 00:37:47,723 --> 00:37:50,977 Finally, we got reporting that bin Laden was in Kabul. 599 00:37:51,936 --> 00:37:56,315 We decided, "Okay, we're gonna make a push on Kabul." 600 00:37:58,818 --> 00:38:01,237 We are outside of Kabul on the Shomali Plains. 601 00:38:02,071 --> 00:38:04,365 Special forces teams came and joined us. 602 00:38:04,865 --> 00:38:07,743 There's about 25 CIA or special forces 603 00:38:07,827 --> 00:38:11,080 alongside 5,000 Northern Alliance on the Shomali Plains 604 00:38:12,164 --> 00:38:17,253 {\an8}standing against 15,000 Taliban and al-Qaida. 605 00:38:20,089 --> 00:38:23,092 They outnumber us at least three to one, maybe four to one. 606 00:38:24,302 --> 00:38:28,681 The synchronization of the Northern Alliance with US air power 607 00:38:29,265 --> 00:38:32,226 really was crucial to executing the plan. 608 00:38:32,810 --> 00:38:35,146 So we coordinated for air support, 609 00:38:35,229 --> 00:38:36,355 set a date. 610 00:38:36,439 --> 00:38:37,648 It was the ninth. 611 00:38:38,399 --> 00:38:40,609 The Northern Alliance got ready to attack. 612 00:38:45,031 --> 00:38:47,700 At dusk, you could see headlights 613 00:38:47,783 --> 00:38:49,493 of thousands of pickup vehicles. 614 00:38:49,577 --> 00:38:51,287 Eight guys in the back, armed, 615 00:38:51,370 --> 00:38:52,788 start coming out of the city 616 00:38:53,706 --> 00:38:55,833 and start to crowd in on us 617 00:38:55,916 --> 00:38:57,835 to be in a position to attack us. 618 00:38:59,003 --> 00:39:01,505 Their intention is to kill everybody in the Northern Alliance 619 00:39:01,589 --> 00:39:03,924 and kill the Americans, who they know are there. 620 00:39:06,802 --> 00:39:09,180 They had a very, very large force. 621 00:39:10,890 --> 00:39:13,601 But what we have that they don't have… air power. 622 00:39:16,979 --> 00:39:19,273 Once the US air power was introduced, 623 00:39:19,357 --> 00:39:21,817 having worked most of my career with the US military, 624 00:39:21,901 --> 00:39:23,402 I knew what was coming. 625 00:39:23,486 --> 00:39:25,279 I knew what was coming. 626 00:39:26,197 --> 00:39:29,575 I pushed half of my team to be right on the front line 627 00:39:29,658 --> 00:39:31,911 with the Northern Alliance to the assault. 628 00:39:32,995 --> 00:39:35,539 The Northern Alliance lined up and got ready, 629 00:39:36,415 --> 00:39:38,042 and then the planes didn't come.- 630 00:39:39,251 --> 00:39:40,461 They didn't come. 631 00:39:45,925 --> 00:39:48,386 There was an artillery duel. 632 00:39:50,513 --> 00:39:53,057 The Taliban were in bunkers and trenches. 633 00:39:55,434 --> 00:39:57,061 They weren't well concealed. 634 00:40:03,275 --> 00:40:05,111 There is no bases to go to.B 635 00:40:05,694 --> 00:40:08,489 There's no place to protect yourself. You're exposed. 636 00:40:09,615 --> 00:40:13,202 Of course, I had to send messages back saying, "What the hell's going on here?" 637 00:40:13,285 --> 00:40:16,247 Air assets are thousands of miles away. 638 00:40:17,289 --> 00:40:20,960 Now we got 15,000 people right on top of us. 639 00:40:24,171 --> 00:40:27,800 I told our officers no one was allowed to surrender. 640 00:40:28,467 --> 00:40:32,012 If you are going to be overwhelmed, you save the last round for yourself. 641 00:40:32,763 --> 00:40:34,598 Because if not, 642 00:40:34,682 --> 00:40:36,809 al-Qaida would torture you on video, 643 00:40:37,309 --> 00:40:40,771 put that out all over the world, and you would suffer horribly. 644 00:40:44,733 --> 00:40:47,736 And then unannounced comes all hell from the Air Force. 645 00:40:54,201 --> 00:40:56,704 B-52s are bombing that front line. 646 00:40:57,746 --> 00:41:00,916 AC-130 gunships are coming. Fighter aircraft are coming. 647 00:41:01,959 --> 00:41:04,962 The Taliban positions couldn't withstand US air power. 648 00:41:05,838 --> 00:41:09,133 They actually just abandoned their positions and ran. 649 00:41:10,759 --> 00:41:12,761 And then, as they collapse, 650 00:41:12,845 --> 00:41:16,140 the Northern Alliance moves forward against their positions. 651 00:41:25,232 --> 00:41:28,027 Since launching their breakout offensive last Friday, 652 00:41:28,110 --> 00:41:32,740 US-backed anti-Taliban forces have made strikingly rapid progress. 653 00:41:32,823 --> 00:41:37,244 Yesterday alone, more than 400 bombs were dropped on Afghanistan. 654 00:41:37,328 --> 00:41:40,873 Their commanders claim to have killed nearly 1,000 Taliban troops 655 00:41:40,956 --> 00:41:42,249 in just two days. 656 00:41:42,833 --> 00:41:45,669 We were all moving faster than anyone thought. 657 00:41:45,753 --> 00:41:50,758 And so the Taliban, literally on their own, began evacuating the city. 658 00:41:54,637 --> 00:41:58,516 I was told, "Look, the White House wants you to hold everybody back." 659 00:41:58,599 --> 00:42:00,309 "We don't want you to go in." 660 00:42:00,809 --> 00:42:02,811 "Stop five miles outside the city." 661 00:42:03,938 --> 00:42:05,064 But we didn't do that. 662 00:42:06,607 --> 00:42:09,693 A small number of American troops is in Kabul tonight. 663 00:42:09,777 --> 00:42:12,530 Following a lightning-fast four-day advance, 664 00:42:12,613 --> 00:42:17,159 anti-Taliban rebel forces now control the capital of Afghanistan. 665 00:42:17,243 --> 00:42:19,578 The departure of the Taliban could not have been 666 00:42:19,662 --> 00:42:21,121 a more welcome development. 667 00:42:21,205 --> 00:42:23,958 People were accepting us, cheering for us. 668 00:42:24,041 --> 00:42:25,501 The population turned on the Taliban. 669 00:42:25,584 --> 00:42:27,336 They were beating 'em up and arresting them. 670 00:42:28,003 --> 00:42:30,965 The Taliban had treated them terribly. They were monsters. 671 00:42:33,050 --> 00:42:37,930 The expectation everyone had of this turning into some sort of quagmire 672 00:42:38,013 --> 00:42:39,223 didn't come about. 673 00:42:39,306 --> 00:42:41,684 In fact, Kabul had fallen by November. 674 00:42:41,767 --> 00:42:42,935 It seemed to be working, 675 00:42:43,018 --> 00:42:46,814 particularly when Kabul has fallen and no American troops are dead. 676 00:42:47,439 --> 00:42:50,609 We toppled the Taliban with 300 soldiers on the ground. 677 00:42:50,693 --> 00:42:52,528 It may have been less, to be honest with you. 678 00:42:52,611 --> 00:42:55,573 The Taliban were crushed in 45 days, so… 679 00:42:56,323 --> 00:42:58,200 It was a pretty successful operation. 680 00:43:10,129 --> 00:43:12,381 Now, I just talked to… 681 00:43:14,592 --> 00:43:17,803 One by one, the bodies of more than a dozen firefighters 682 00:43:17,886 --> 00:43:21,056 are carried out of the rubble that was once the World Trade Center. 683 00:43:21,640 --> 00:43:24,018 Three hundred forty-three of New York's bravest 684 00:43:24,101 --> 00:43:25,728 are missing or confirmed dead. 685 00:43:26,520 --> 00:43:31,483 For me, 9/11 feels deeply personal 686 00:43:31,567 --> 00:43:33,235 because it happened at home. 687 00:43:33,902 --> 00:43:37,531 {\an8}The two towers were three blocks away from my high school. 688 00:43:37,615 --> 00:43:39,908 I used to go during high school lunch break 689 00:43:39,992 --> 00:43:42,119 to feel so cool and big 690 00:43:42,202 --> 00:43:45,289 and go to the shopping center in the World Trade Center. 691 00:43:50,461 --> 00:43:51,879 {\an8}Many of the first responders 692 00:43:51,962 --> 00:43:55,174 {\an8}were the parents and siblings of kids I grew up with. 693 00:43:57,801 --> 00:44:04,099 We were still reeling from the emotional disaster that is 9/11. 694 00:44:05,726 --> 00:44:07,936 Stories about recovered bodies. 695 00:44:08,520 --> 00:44:10,481 What do you do with the abandoned cars? 696 00:44:12,024 --> 00:44:16,236 But there's another piece of the puzzle of what 9/11 means. 697 00:44:17,154 --> 00:44:21,450 In taking over Kabul, many civilians die. 698 00:44:22,034 --> 00:44:24,870 Week three of the air wars begun controversially. 699 00:44:24,953 --> 00:44:28,207 Bodies in coffins on a Kabul street have led to fresh questions 700 00:44:28,290 --> 00:44:30,918 about the accuracy of the American attacks. 701 00:44:31,001 --> 00:44:34,254 Pictures from the Afghan capital are said to show the aftermath 702 00:44:34,338 --> 00:44:35,547 of the latest raids. 703 00:44:35,631 --> 00:44:38,717 Houses destroyed by a stray bomb. Lives shattered. 704 00:44:39,301 --> 00:44:41,970 There was no room for that piece of the story 705 00:44:42,054 --> 00:44:44,431 in the American conversation. 706 00:44:44,515 --> 00:44:46,975 On the issue of military involvement, 707 00:44:47,059 --> 00:44:48,477 fully 80% of Americans, 708 00:44:48,560 --> 00:44:50,896 according to most polls, favor it now. 709 00:44:50,979 --> 00:44:53,565 Should US retaliate even if innocent people are killed? 710 00:44:53,649 --> 00:44:55,317 Yes, 66%. 711 00:44:56,819 --> 00:45:01,615 The civilian casualties just disappear 712 00:45:02,908 --> 00:45:05,828 because Americans were still wrestling with 713 00:45:05,911 --> 00:45:08,497 thousands of Americans having been killed. 714 00:45:11,750 --> 00:45:14,461 We must defeat the evildoers. 715 00:45:14,545 --> 00:45:17,798 We must round 'em up, and we must bring 'em to justice. 716 00:45:18,841 --> 00:45:21,427 And that's exactly what we're doing in Afghanistan. 717 00:45:22,886 --> 00:45:26,014 The fundamental question is, can you kill your way out of this? 718 00:45:26,765 --> 00:45:29,768 People ask that all the time. "Can you kill your way out of this?" 719 00:45:30,477 --> 00:45:31,854 And the answer is no 720 00:45:31,937 --> 00:45:34,690 because some other people in some other country are gonna go, 721 00:45:34,773 --> 00:45:36,775 "Did you just see what they did?" 722 00:45:36,859 --> 00:45:40,821 And then you're gonna have more terrorism. Bombing more people isn't gonna stop that. 723 00:45:41,864 --> 00:45:45,159 Unfortunately, that's how the US reacts to something like that. 724 00:45:45,242 --> 00:45:48,203 I mean, I'm an analyst. I know what my country does. 725 00:45:48,287 --> 00:45:51,707 When there's a Pearl Harbor or something like that, we go to war. 726 00:45:52,416 --> 00:45:54,626 Whether it's a good idea or not, it's what we do. 727 00:46:00,591 --> 00:46:01,425 Go! 728 00:46:05,721 --> 00:46:07,181 By early December, 729 00:46:07,264 --> 00:46:11,059 all the major cities in Afghanistan had fallen. 730 00:46:11,143 --> 00:46:14,813 Al-Qaida really had no urban stronghold. 731 00:46:17,149 --> 00:46:19,818 We had accomplished some aspects of the mission, no doubt, 732 00:46:19,902 --> 00:46:22,863 but we did not bring bin Laden's head back on ice. 733 00:46:23,864 --> 00:46:27,159 Bin Laden got away. It's a big area. 734 00:46:27,242 --> 00:46:29,912 It's hard. I gotta find out where he is. 735 00:46:38,754 --> 00:46:41,340 We had captured one of his radios, 736 00:46:41,423 --> 00:46:45,093 and we had an expert familiar with Osama bin Laden's voice. 737 00:46:45,594 --> 00:46:47,930 So he was listening to this short-range radio… 738 00:46:49,681 --> 00:46:52,935 …and he heard Osama bin Laden telling his men, 739 00:46:53,018 --> 00:46:56,396 "Hey, I'm sorry I brought you here. This is a disaster. It's all my fault." 740 00:46:56,480 --> 00:46:59,483 This short-range radio had a range to it. 741 00:46:59,566 --> 00:47:01,485 In the mountains, the range was less. 742 00:47:03,153 --> 00:47:04,112 We got him. 743 00:47:05,239 --> 00:47:06,782 They moved to the mountains. 744 00:47:06,865 --> 00:47:10,619 They had a stronghold in Tora Bora from back in the Soviet-Afghan days. 745 00:47:11,537 --> 00:47:13,330 Whole tunnel network up there. 746 00:47:13,413 --> 00:47:16,375 That's where the intelligence said that they had retreated to. 747 00:47:16,458 --> 00:47:18,794 Just called all my guys together and said, 748 00:47:18,877 --> 00:47:20,629 "We're gonna send our people in there now." 749 00:47:21,129 --> 00:47:25,050 That four-man team starts going up into the mountains with ten Afghans 750 00:47:25,133 --> 00:47:26,009 with donkeys. 751 00:47:28,720 --> 00:47:31,473 And they get about half a day up, 752 00:47:31,557 --> 00:47:34,518 and one of those donkeys was packed with an RPG. 753 00:47:35,185 --> 00:47:36,812 And the RPG round goes off, 754 00:47:36,895 --> 00:47:40,732 and it blows the donkey into about 20 pieces. 755 00:47:40,816 --> 00:47:43,193 A couple Afghans died too, so they had to bring 'em down, 756 00:47:43,277 --> 00:47:46,071 gotta bury them, and we gotta start over again. 757 00:47:48,615 --> 00:47:49,825 They go back up the mountain, 758 00:47:51,702 --> 00:47:54,788 very, very high, and they work their way in deep. 759 00:47:54,872 --> 00:47:56,415 And they get to a position, 760 00:47:56,498 --> 00:47:59,042 and they can see down from up on top up there. 761 00:48:03,422 --> 00:48:05,215 They had spotted him. 762 00:48:06,633 --> 00:48:08,886 Bin Laden's got a thousand guys. 763 00:48:08,969 --> 00:48:11,138 Tanks, armored vehicles, all sorts of stuff, 764 00:48:11,221 --> 00:48:13,307 and they were down below our guys. 765 00:48:15,684 --> 00:48:17,436 We were outnumbered. 766 00:48:17,519 --> 00:48:19,688 There was just no way that we could engage them 767 00:48:19,771 --> 00:48:23,483 with the idea of capturing and killing all of them, including bin Laden. 768 00:48:24,943 --> 00:48:26,153 You can't do this 769 00:48:26,236 --> 00:48:29,448 with small numbers of US forces and Afghan irregulars. 770 00:48:29,531 --> 00:48:32,951 You need a battalion, 800 Rangers. 771 00:48:33,452 --> 00:48:35,037 We need to drop them in up there. 772 00:48:35,120 --> 00:48:37,289 I called Hank. He made the appeal. 773 00:48:37,873 --> 00:48:39,875 I briefed this up the chain, 774 00:48:39,958 --> 00:48:42,419 to Cofer, to the president, and I said, 775 00:48:42,502 --> 00:48:45,213 "We need to have reinforcements, Rangers, Marines." 776 00:48:45,297 --> 00:48:47,507 "We need help in the mountains." 777 00:48:48,717 --> 00:48:52,721 I was very clear that this was a matter of hours. 778 00:48:52,804 --> 00:48:54,973 Otherwise, we would lose a chance. 779 00:48:55,057 --> 00:48:59,811 I'm trying to tell the military, "Okay, this is the time for you to come in 780 00:48:59,895 --> 00:49:02,230 with massive force and end this thing." 781 00:49:02,314 --> 00:49:04,942 And Secretary Rumsfeld reportedly said, 782 00:49:05,025 --> 00:49:08,737 "Well, this doesn't have anything to do with us. This is a CIA operation." 783 00:49:12,032 --> 00:49:14,826 We were not getting ground support. Where is the ground support? 784 00:49:14,910 --> 00:49:17,746 Where are ground troops? Why are we not sending ground troops in? 785 00:49:17,829 --> 00:49:20,916 We're like, "If we're not sending ground troops in, we're not gonna bomb." 786 00:49:22,668 --> 00:49:24,544 When you bomb something, 787 00:49:24,628 --> 00:49:27,881 people that survive run away. 788 00:49:28,382 --> 00:49:31,885 So you need more people there to scoop them up. 789 00:49:33,345 --> 00:49:37,516 So either we don't drop any bombs, don't let them know we're there, 790 00:49:37,599 --> 00:49:42,145 or rain down everything and bring the ground troops in at the same time. 791 00:49:42,229 --> 00:49:44,564 And so that's what we thought the plan was going to be. 792 00:49:46,108 --> 00:49:48,235 General Mattis at Kandahar 793 00:49:48,318 --> 00:49:50,737 with Marines, they could have deployed… 794 00:49:52,364 --> 00:49:54,449 They just weren't willing to do that. 795 00:49:54,533 --> 00:49:56,868 There was just a tremendous reluctance 796 00:49:56,952 --> 00:49:59,538 to put in US military forces. 797 00:49:59,621 --> 00:50:02,541 So their solution was just bomb the place. 798 00:50:02,624 --> 00:50:04,793 No ground troops, we are gonna bomb. 799 00:50:04,876 --> 00:50:08,505 All of us did not agree with what they were doing. 800 00:50:09,006 --> 00:50:12,175 But what am I supposed to do when the orders are coming from the president? 801 00:50:12,259 --> 00:50:13,802 That's the commander-in-chief. 802 00:50:15,554 --> 00:50:18,056 I really wasn't in a position 803 00:50:18,140 --> 00:50:22,769 to question the… the president on… on the policy. 804 00:50:22,853 --> 00:50:25,022 That's not a CIA officer's job. 805 00:50:25,981 --> 00:50:28,483 And so I called Gary back and explained to him 806 00:50:28,567 --> 00:50:30,110 that he has to go with what he's got. 807 00:50:37,576 --> 00:50:39,244 We had four Americans, 808 00:50:39,327 --> 00:50:41,371 a thousand enemy down below. 809 00:50:42,247 --> 00:50:44,541 If we didn't eliminate these people now, 810 00:50:44,624 --> 00:50:47,461 every one of 'em that escaped the country was a potential pilot 811 00:50:47,544 --> 00:50:49,546 to fly another airline into a building. 812 00:50:52,549 --> 00:50:54,634 One of my guys was a combat controller. 813 00:50:55,218 --> 00:50:58,263 Combat controllers call in airstrikes from the front. 814 00:50:58,889 --> 00:51:00,223 I said, "Do it." 815 00:51:03,852 --> 00:51:09,399 He gets up on the line. He calls in B-52s, B-1s, F-15s. 816 00:51:10,442 --> 00:51:13,236 These four Americans by themselves 817 00:51:13,862 --> 00:51:17,157 did airstrikes for 56 hours. 818 00:51:22,954 --> 00:51:24,498 They had a lot of cave systems. 819 00:51:24,581 --> 00:51:26,875 And it takes a lot of bombing to close down a cave. 820 00:51:28,335 --> 00:51:31,338 It was some of the heaviest bombing since World War II. 821 00:51:35,926 --> 00:51:40,430 Every aircraft in the US arsenal attacked those guys. 822 00:51:42,682 --> 00:51:44,142 They brought out a BLU-82, 823 00:51:44,226 --> 00:51:47,646 the largest conventional bomb that the United States has. 824 00:51:47,729 --> 00:51:51,483 It's so big, they have to drop it off the back of a transport plane. 825 00:52:05,622 --> 00:52:09,251 After the BLU-82 and the bombings, we didn't hear anything after that. 826 00:52:14,673 --> 00:52:17,008 If he's killed, cut off his head 827 00:52:17,092 --> 00:52:19,970 and send it back, or his hands, 828 00:52:20,053 --> 00:52:23,723 or if you can, if you'd rather take a blood sample, 829 00:52:24,224 --> 00:52:25,684 then we can match DNA 830 00:52:25,767 --> 00:52:29,146 because we needed forensic evidence that he was dead. 831 00:52:30,272 --> 00:52:33,441 We had people up there looking for pieces of him with Q-tips, 832 00:52:33,525 --> 00:52:34,526 trying to get DNA. 833 00:52:36,778 --> 00:52:38,363 We thought we had killed him. 834 00:52:41,741 --> 00:52:43,910 It's over in Tora Bora. 835 00:52:43,994 --> 00:52:46,496 Al-Qaida's last stronghold has fallen. 836 00:52:46,580 --> 00:52:48,415 The Afghan militia were celebrating 837 00:52:48,498 --> 00:52:52,210 what they were calling the final defeat of Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida. 838 00:52:53,461 --> 00:52:56,631 Our victories today have been very decisive, very important. 839 00:52:56,715 --> 00:53:00,385 All the tunnels, all the caves of al-Qaida up on the mountain of Tora Bora 840 00:53:00,468 --> 00:53:02,179 have been captured by our forces. 841 00:53:02,262 --> 00:53:04,598 We're still trying to sort out who we have 842 00:53:04,681 --> 00:53:07,559 and who we don't have and who's been killed. 843 00:53:07,642 --> 00:53:09,895 Maybe he still is there. Maybe he was killed. 844 00:53:09,978 --> 00:53:13,440 The US is using ground forces, so if bin Laden is killed, 845 00:53:13,523 --> 00:53:16,860 the Americans will be able to bring back proof he is dead. 846 00:53:16,943 --> 00:53:19,988 There are new unconfirmed reports that he may be dead. 847 00:53:23,450 --> 00:53:24,951 About six months after that, 848 00:53:25,035 --> 00:53:28,079 I was in the United States at a friend of mine's home 849 00:53:28,163 --> 00:53:30,165 having dinner with him, and the television was on. 850 00:53:44,262 --> 00:53:46,431 He surfaced. There he was. 851 00:53:46,514 --> 00:53:48,725 We're almost close to 800. 852 00:53:50,352 --> 00:53:52,979 The number of destroyed buildings and structures. 853 00:53:53,063 --> 00:53:55,523 We now know Osama bin Laden is alive. 854 00:53:55,607 --> 00:53:57,692 The world's most wanted is still around. 855 00:53:57,776 --> 00:54:00,320 The last thing the administration wanted to see. 856 00:54:00,403 --> 00:54:02,822 Once bin Laden left Afghanistan, 857 00:54:03,406 --> 00:54:04,699 he could go anywhere. 858 00:54:05,492 --> 00:54:07,327 And now what is he up to? 859 00:54:08,870 --> 00:54:11,623 - Attack in Madrid. - London's worst attack… 860 00:54:11,706 --> 00:54:13,500 Deadly bombings in Bali. 861 00:54:13,583 --> 00:54:15,752 Bin Laden franchised himself. 862 00:54:15,835 --> 00:54:18,255 You had branches of al-Qaida everywhere. 863 00:54:18,338 --> 00:54:21,800 Bin Laden was in search of, "What's my next 9/11?" 864 00:54:22,968 --> 00:54:25,762 Al-Qaida's capabilities are rebounding. 865 00:54:25,845 --> 00:54:29,557 I say to the American people that, 866 00:54:29,641 --> 00:54:32,769 God willing, we will continue to kill you, 867 00:54:32,852 --> 00:54:35,939 and we will continue the martyrdom operations.