Richard Miniter

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TRIGGERnometry · 9/11: The Full Story, 25 Years On with Richard Miniter · 11 Sep 2026 podcast

Um, and that's who they were the people who were doing the bulk of the fighting.

But nonetheless, in the mind of the jihadis they defeated the one superpower, the Soviets.

With nine eleven, they were expecting another battle and they would defeat the other superpower, America.

And that would make them the best in the world.

And they hope bring about the end times.

And

uh lead to the end of the world and Allah triumphant.

So from the nineteen ninety three World Trade Center bombing, there are a series of attacks.

There's an attempted assassination of the Pope, there's planned assassinations of Bill Clinton, there's a foiled plot uh called Bojinka, uh, that was gonna start out of Manila where they hijacked eleven planes over the Pacific that was foiled.

uh by a very enterprising uh Filipino uh police chief uh who was pregnant and in flip flops when she arrests uh Ramsay Youssef's uh co conspirator.

Uh that's a whole other wonderful story.

Um and so these these attacks escalate.

There are attacks on two US embassies in nineteen ninety-eight.

uh in uh darasalaam Tanzania and in uh Nairobi.

Um and then

climax of the Clinton years from an Al-Qaeda perspective is the attack on the USS coal.

Uh they had attempted an earlier attack on the USS, the Sullivans.

Uh that ship is named after five brothers who died on the same ship in uh in World War Two.

Uh and uh fighting the Japanese and it is um

But their attack fails because their boat sinks before it reaches the target.

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