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Twenty-five years on from the deadliest terror attack in history, BBC investigative journalist Jane McMullen asks why thousands of grieving families are still fighting for answers. In early 2000, two young Saudis arrived in San Diego. They had never been to America, spoke almost no English, and had no idea how to open a bank account or rent a flat. Within weeks they had done all of it. Twenty months later they hijacked a plane and crashed it into the Pentagon. McMullen investigates the hidden story of a man who helped two of the hijackers - and reveals a story that the US and Saudi governments have fought to keep secret.
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- Sep 21, 202633 min
A 9/11 Story: New: Where is Austin Tice?
I'm Not A Monster Presents... Where is Austin Tice?Josh Baker investigates one of the biggest missing-person cases of our time. American journalist Austin Tice vanished in Syria, but the US president says he’s alive. For more than a decade Austin's mother Debra has been leading the search for her son. As Josh Baker and Sara Obeidat travel to Syria to help Austin’s mother’s search, a source gives Josh information that might unlock where he is - and a simple instruction: “Find Austin.”Josh - creator of two of the BBC's most award-winning and widely listened-to investigative podcasts, I'm Not a Monster and The Shamima Begum Story - returns for his most ambitious chapter yet, in a major new series from BBC Radio 4 and NPR's Embedded.Listen to the podcast - search for 'I'm Not a Monster presents'.Archive: Houston Public Media; NBC; PBS; CNN; C-SPAN; MSNBC; The White House; BBC.Writer and showrunner: Josh Baker Investigative producer: Sara Obeidat Series producer: Simon Maybin Field producing: Ouday Al Hussein Additional producing: Lucy Burns Open source intelligence: Thomas Bordeaux & Gabor Friesen Production coordinator: Gemma Ashman Series editor: Clare Fordham Head of BBC News Long Form Audio: Emma Rippon BBC Radio 4 commissioning editor: Dan Clarke NPR producer: Monika Evstatieva NPR editors: Robert Little & Katie Simon NPR executive producer for Embedded: Irene Noguchi BBC World Service commissioning editor: Jon Manel Composer: Firas Abou Fakher Additional music: Karim Chehoury Theme music: Sam Slater Mix and sound design: Tom Brignell
- Sep 11, 202615 min
A 9/11 Story: 10. A Quarter Century
Terry Strada spies the FBI Director in a VIP area. Can she get to him to make her case before time runs out? A new generation is preparing to step into the fight for answers. A BBC News Long Form Audio production. Host: Jane McMullen Series producer: Neal Razzell Additional production: Sally Abrahams, Keiligh Baker, Nik Sindle Editor: Matt Willis Music: Thomas Ross-Fitzsimons Sound design: Charlie Brandon-King Production management: Phoebe Lomas Radio 4 commissioning executive: Tracy Williams Radio 4 commissioning editor: Dan Clarke
- Sep 11, 202614 min
A 9/11 Story: 9. The Puzzle
Decades of arguments and evidence land before a judge. Terry Strada’s hopes hang on how he pieces it all together: an airplane sketch, a video from Washington, and call records between Saudi officials in the US. FBI Special Agent Danny Gonzalez is confident: “Put all these little pieces together and make one big puzzle and you'll see it.” A BBC News Long Form Audio production. Host: Jane McMullen Series producer: Neal Razzell Additional production: Sally Abrahams, Keiligh Baker, Nik Sindle Editor: Matt Willis Music: Thomas Ross-Fitzsimons Sound design: Charlie Brandon-King Production management: Phoebe Lomas Radio 4 commissioning executive: Tracy Williams Radio 4 commissioning editor: Dan Clarke
- Sep 9, 202614 min
A 9/11 Story: 8. The Party
When one of Omar Al-Bayoumi’s home videos contains more than was first thought, FBI Special Agent Danny Gonzalez is shocked. Decades after he should have seen it, can it make a difference? A BBC News Long Form Audio production. Host: Jane McMullen Series producer: Neal Razzell Additional production: Sally Abrahams, Keiligh Baker, Nik Sindle Editor: Matt Willis Music: Thomas Ross-Fitzsimons Sound design: Charlie Brandon-King Production management: Phoebe Lomas Radio 4 commissioning executive: Tracy Williams Radio 4 commissioning editor: Dan Clarke
- Sep 8, 202614 min
A 9/11 Story: 7. Secret Weapon
To keep a promise to her kids, Terry Strada must master an unknown world and defy a president...all in uncomfortable shoes. She’s pounding the corridors of power in Washington, but a decisive moment comes at an opulent party on Long Island. A BBC News Long Form Audio production. Host: Jane McMullen Series producer: Neal Razzell Additional production: Sally Abrahams, Keiligh Baker, Nik Sindle Editor: Matt Willis Music: Thomas Ross-Fitzsimons Sound design: Charlie Brandon-King Production management: Phoebe Lomas Radio 4 commissioning executive: Tracy Williams Radio 4 commissioning editor: Dan Clarke
- Sep 7, 202614 min
A 9/11 Story: 6. More Questions than Answers
The FBI’s Danny Gonzalez suffers setbacks professional and personal after British police release the man at the centre of his investigation: Omar Al-Bayoumi. And official inquiries fail to provide Terry Strada the answers she so badly needs. A BBC News Long Form Audio production. Host: Jane McMullen Series producer: Neal Razzell Additional production: Sally Abrahams, Keiligh Baker, Nik Sindle Editor: Matt Willis Music: Thomas Ross-Fitzsimons Sound design: Charlie Brandon-King Production management: Phoebe Lomas Radio 4 commissioning executive: Tracy Williams Radio 4 commissioning editor: Dan Clarke
- Sep 4, 202614 min
A 9/11 Story: 5. Mosque and State
Terry Strada joins a lawsuit on behalf of 9/11 families, while Special Agent Danny Gonzalez and the FBI continue their investigation in secret. A BBC News Long Form Audio production.
- Sep 3, 202614 min
A 9/11 Story: 4. A Chance Meeting
Inside Britain's most secure interrogation room, Detective Constable David Campbell of Scotland Yard's anti-terror branch has just seven days to question the hijackers’ neighbour from San Diego. A BBC News Long Form Audio production.
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Twenty-five years on from the deadliest terror attack in history, BBC investigative journalist Jane McMullen asks why thousands of grieving families are still fighting for answers. In early 2000, two young Saudis arrived in San Diego. They had never been to America, spoke almost no English, and had no idea how to open a bank account or rent a flat. Within weeks they had done all of it. Twenty months later they hijacked a plane and crashed it into the Pentagon. McMullen investigates the hidden story of a man who helped two of the hijackers - and reveals a story that the US and Saudi governments have fought to keep secret.
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