Richard Miniter

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

Only when they get enough bomb residue out of the crater to say, okay, this was definitely a bomb, right?

Uh, so that happens

five, six hours after in into the investigation.

But for days, they're like, is this a Yugoslav terrorist group?

Is this uh far right extremists from, you know, white nationalists from the United States?

Is this nobody knows, right?

And uh even after the initial arrests, and that's a whole interesting story, where they unwind the plot where the guy has returned to get the rental car, um, so he can get the deposit back and use the money to buy a flight to escape.

Because the ticket that Mohammed Atta, the ringleader, has given him is not a real airline ticket, it's a child's ticket.

He has to upgrade it in order to get on a flight back to Pakistan.

And um

Yeah, this they it takes them months to put the pieces together about that bombing itself, connecting it to a larger global narrative.

doesn't really cohere into anything until the

Middle of nineteen ninety five.

At the earliest.

Um, and that's also why when Sudan offered to arrest bin Laden and turn him over uh to the states.

That wasn't seen as that high a priority either.

Now, Francis, to your point, were there mid level people who were specialists saying this is a major problem, this is very important, you need to do something.

Absolutely.

But again, in fairness to the Clinton administration.

These people, all all these specialists think their specialty is the most important thing.

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