Richard Miniter
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1,766 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 11 Sep
Richard Miniter’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So the earlier plans were simultaneously hijacking eight aircraft, four on the west coast and four on the east coast.
with targets in San Francisco and Los Angeles and so on.
Uh they prune that out of the plan is just too operationally difficult.
Four is the they think the largest number of planes they can hijack without a US response.
But it's
It's very much like I hate to keep going back to the Hollywood comparison, but it's very much like
An independent producer with a very promising script.
having to negotiate with a studio for financing and distribution, right?
So he needed um
Al Qaeda's money, you needed Al Qaeda's ability to forge documents and to move people um
Insecure ways, you needed secure communication.
He needed a lot of resources beyond money.
Um and to do that he had to compromise with them.
А не украшивай мету практику.
Um, but bin Laden was just desperate for his war.
In his mind, and this is in his writings, this is not a theory of mine.
Uh they had defeated the Soviets, even though in reality the
Jihadis had virtually no impact on the Soviets.
Except for you can maybe give them two battles.
The criminal roles and two battles, maybe.
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