En mor till salu

Bag it.

Let's go!

Yeah?

Professor, we got the hard drive.

Good girl.

Yes, sir.

Would you state your name

and place of employment for the record?

Special Agent Ali Soufan,

Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Date and place of birth?

July 8th, 1971.

Sidon, Lebanon.

Agent Soufan,

you testified in preliminary session

that the CIA withheld intelligence

from the FBI

on multiple occasions,

intelligence that would have prevented

the attacks of September 11th.

Yes, sir, I did.

What you're saying is contrary

to CIA testimony.

All right.

So you're telling us they've lied to this commission?

If members of the CIA testified that the Agency

properly shared information with the Bureau

in the manner in which they are by law directed to,

then you've been lied to.

Can you tell us the first time

you became aware the Agency

was withholding information from your FBI unit?

In the summer of 1998.

Martin Schmidt was the chief of Alec Station,

the Bin Laden unit of the CIA.

Alec Station was Schmidt's creation,

his domain.

He and his team devoted their lives

to the hunt for al-Qaeda.

That hunt was meant to be done

hand-in-hand with the FBI.

It wasn't.

The Bureau had two agents assigned to Alec Station.

They were supposed to be informed of intelligence,

so they could report it back to my boss at the FBI,

John O'Neill.

That summer,

Alec Station came into possession of a hard drive

from an al-Qaeda cell in Eastern Europe.

Martin Schmidt refused to share that intelligence.

Tirana.

On that hard drive

were lists of al-Qaeda operatives

and more than 50 potential targets.

You know, our boys have been keeping

an eye on the Albanian cell.

Indeed I do.

Professor, the retarded twins.

Shut it down. Close up shop.

What you going over in there, Martin?

Whatever we may or may not be examining

is entirely none of your business.

Sir, the way this works is you show us what you've got

and then we discuss if it's our business.

The ladies and I analyze what we learn

in the manner for which we've been...

shall we say, educated.

Okay.

We're flying back to New York this morning.

John O'Neill's gonna want to know what you're looking at.

I see.

Fuck John O'Neill.

Good morning, Mr. O'Neill.

- Margie. - They're all waiting for you.

Good.

- Gordo, good morning. - Morning, boss.

Kathy, you're a sight for sore eyes.

- Glad to be of service. - Bobby.

- Godfather. - Suck me, asshole.

Floyd, how are you?

I'm good, sir. Good morning.

So...

I find out early this morning

that the Agency raided

Ahmed Salama Mabruk.

Did they invite the Bureau to ride along?

Do they call on me to pass on intel,

or do I need to learn about this shit

all by myself?

I'm done. We're gonna start acting on our own,

here and overseas.

Let me ask you something.

How many Arabic speakers do we have in the Bureau?

Anybody?

- Eight? - Eight. Thank you.

Eight Arabic speakers out of more than 10,000 agents.

That's how seriously our government takes this threat.

Sorry, boss. Shuttle was late.

- Kiss the ring. - Suck me, Bobby.

What's happening in the Manson family?

It is weird it's all women and one bearded guy, right?

Thought it was just me.

Who is this?

Your newest colleague, Ali Soufan.

He can answer every question you have.

All right.

Welcome. How you doing, Ollie?

Ali.

That's what I said.

- It's all right. - No, okay, shut...

Shut the fuck up.

What happened on the Mabruk raid?

All we could learn was that they renditioned him to Cairo

and they got their hands on a computer hard drive.

You didn't see what's on it?

Schmidt closed us out.

God damn it. Fuck that motherfucker.

Interesting. He said the same thing about you.

Did you see anything?

Him and the redhead were putting some pins in a map.

I think a few were in Africa.

One went in Albania.

Albania?

Tirana, I think.

Okay, fuck this.

I'm getting Justice to ram through

an indictment on UBL

so we can do this ourselves.

We just... we gotta give them something.

Bobby, what do you got?

Anything... old leads, stale bullshit...

I don't know, John. It...

Remember Wadih el-Hage...

Used to be UBL's secretary in the Sudan,

now lives in Nairobi?

We know he broke with him a while back.

It may be a dead end, but...

Get on the first plane to Kenya.

I want whatever you can find.

Something's up, people. I can feel it.

Bin Laden invited US journalists

to Afghanistan two weeks ago

so he can get himself on national TV...

tonight.

Could you show me your gun?

Mr. Bin Laden,

John Miller, ABC News.

You've been painted as a terrorist

by the American people.

To your followers, you're a hero.

How do you see yourself?

I am one of the servants of Allah and I obey his orders.

Among those is the order to fight for the word of Allah

and to fight until the Americans are driven out

of all of the Islamic countries.

Mr. Bin Laden,

you issued a fatwa

calling on Muslims to kill Americans

where they can, when they can.

Is that directed at all Americans?

America has no shame...

We believe that the worst thieves in the world today

and the worst terrorists are the Americans.

Nothing could stop you except perhaps retaliation in kind.

We do not have to differentiate between military or civilian.

As far as we are concerned, they are all targets

and this is what the fatwa says.

Bin Laden left his home in Saudi Arabia

at the age of 19

to join the Muslims fighting

the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.

Like many of the young fighters,

he was religious and committed.

Unlike any other,

he came from a Saudi family

that ran a construction empire

worth $5 billion.

Bin Laden's personal worth

is estimated at $200 million.

Bin Laden has made these threats before,

but this time, there's something different.

He put a time cap on it,

saying that whatever action will be taken

against Americans in the Gulf

whatever violence awaits,

will occur within the next few weeks.

Ted.

Soufan.

Get your coat. We're going to dinner.

Think he's a maniac.

- I, uh, yeah. - He's a maniac.

Look what the cat dragged in.

Hello, beautiful.

Feels like forever.

24 hours will do that.

When you miss someone, you miss someone.

Dougie! Bring Johnny his drink.

You applied to the Bureau on a dare?

I was in grad school.

My friends thought it would be funny