Christiane Amanpour

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4,556 appearances 24 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 4d ago

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Christiane Amanpour Presents: The Ex Files · Did 9/11 put the US on a permanent war footing? · 8 Sep 2026 podcast

That was taken, presumably the day of September 11th or another day. voice-verified

Visitors were coming to Afghanistan to visit him from the Islamic world. voice-verified

And do you remember he he had this, you know, he was showing the planes and he was showing it go into, you know, he was using his hands and then he did like this. voice-verified

And the and the sound was that even he didn't expect. voice-verified

As an engineer, which he was, did not. voice-verified

Expect the buildings to topple. voice-verified

He thought there'd be damage and the top bits would be sliced off, but he didn't expect the buildings would topple. voice-verified

And I think that's an incredible fact and an incredible metaphor because voice-verified

those buildings toppling did in fact change the whole world. voice-verified

So Jimmy, why don't you sum up, especially for those who honestly maybe listeners who weren't even alive or were still children when this happened 25 years ago, young people who weren't as involved as as as those of us who are slightly older, um voice-verified

Вот хаудили стається? voice-verified

Базиклиува футін тот. voice-verified

So I'm just gonna remember from my perspective that as I was in uh Pakistan as we waited for the war to start. voice-verified

It started in the first week of uh uh of of October on voice-verified

Afghanistan to get rid of bin Laden, Al-Qaeda, and the Taliban, and it was successful. voice-verified

I managed to get into Afghanistan on the day that it fell. voice-verified

You know, the Taliban left, and uh who knows? voice-verified

They they either fled across to Pakistan or they went into caves. voice-verified

Uh, you know, bin Laden left, they they were, you know, running off and running away, they put up virtually no resistance. voice-verified

And I remember being in Kabul. voice-verified

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