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00:009-11, 2001. Terrorists who call themselves
00:09warriors of God against the Crusaders of the West.
00:18Two religions that demand peace, yet wage war throughout history.
00:30Epochs of confrontation and collaboration.
00:39Peoples and powers who fight in the name of God,
00:43but who struggle for supremacy on earth.
01:00The mountains of eastern Afghanistan, 90 miles from Kabul.
01:06The operational base of the Islamic terrorist group Al Qaeda.
01:10In the afternoon of September 11th, 2001, a handful of men gather in the so-called Lion's Cave.
01:25From later interrogations of captured Al Qaeda leaders, we know what happened here that day.
01:31The founder and head of the organization has retreated to this secret location.
01:51His name, Usama bin Laden.
01:58Bin Laden has declared a murderous war against America.
02:14In the morning of September 11th, 2001 in New York, the inconceivable happens.
02:33A day of terror. For Osama bin Laden, it's a day of triumph.
02:38The leader of the terrorist organization, Al Qaeda, wants revenge against the U.S.
02:46for the alleged humiliation of the Islamic world.
02:49Ten years earlier, U.S. troops had intervened in the Middle East,
03:04a region that's in a permanent state of crisis.
03:09Air attacks are underway against military targets in Iraq.
03:13The Americans challenged the Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein after his invasion of Kuwait.
03:19The U.S. wants to liberate the country.
03:23They deploy their troops in Saudi Arabia.
03:26The country is allied to the West.
03:28It's also a fundamentalist state and the guardian of the holy sites of Mecca and Medina.
03:39Now, half a million U.S. soldiers are on Saudi soil, the birthplace of Islam.
03:46A provocation for many Saudi faithful.
03:49The son of an immensely rich Saudi clan is disgusted, Osama bin Laden.
03:57He believes that the holy sites are being defiled by infidels.
04:01His father, Mohammed, was the most important construction entrepreneur in Saudi Arabia.
04:07The patriarch's numerous wives bore him 57 children.
04:12Osama is one of them.
04:14Ever since his youth, bin Laden has tried to impress with his religious conviction.
04:21Another reason why he refers to the Americans stationed in Saudi Arabia as Crusaders.
04:28He blames this outrage on the Saudi royal family.
04:32That moment, when he realized that the kingdom was going to turn to America and the international community to defend itself, was a turning point in his life.
04:54Because he believed that no non-Muslims should be permitted into the kingdom at all.
05:01And here come a half a million mostly Christian or Jewish foreign troops, many of whom were women, defending the kingdom of Saudi Arabia against another Muslim army.
05:17The Americans defeat Saddam's army.
05:22Afterwards, U.S. units remain in Saudi Arabia to safeguard the West's oil supply.
05:29And to protect the allied Saudi regime.
05:33At the same time, President Bush senior talks of a new world order.
05:38A world in which there is the very real prospect of a new world order.
05:42America's world order is a provocation for Osama bin Laden.
05:48He wants a return to the traditional values of Islam.
05:52And calls for the Muslim world to restore its former glory.
05:5612 centuries earlier, Muslims had changed the world.
06:07From Mecca, they had created a vast empire extending from Central Asia to Western Europe under the Umayyad dynasty.
06:17So-called jihadists like bin Laden believed the high point in Muslim history was the result of an exclusive cult-like and aggressive interpretation of Islam.
06:28Islamic culture flourished because of its openness.
06:34In the mythical places of Islam where a high culture was truly created, Baghdad for example, Andalusia, Damascus or Cairo, the high culture only came into being because Islam remained open to outside influences.
06:48It was not, as the jihadists claim, a self-contained world that expanded through violent struggle.
06:58The jihadists adhere to a view of Islam that is predominant in Saudi Arabia, Wahhabism.
07:05An especially strict interpretation of Islam.
07:07A reason why not only Islamic militants accuse the Saudi regime of hypocrisy.
07:15Behind the pious facade, people are reveling in Western luxuries whilst enjoying the protection of the U.S.
07:22Even as a young man, Osama bin Laden is irritated by the contradictions in Saudi society.
07:35A student of economics and business administration, he seeks and finds spiritual guidance.
07:43Biographers describe an encounter that will change bin Laden's life with a mastermind of the modern jihad.
07:50At the University of Jeddah, bin Laden attends lectures by Abdallah Azzam.
07:57He wants to fight for the dignity of all Muslims, with the sword, but above all, with his faith.
08:04Azzam is a Palestinian.
08:07For him, and for many other Arabs, the recent history of the Middle East constitutes a series of humiliations.
08:14Among these humiliations was the war that shook the region in 1967.
08:21The Israeli army needed only six days to defeat the allied Arab forces.
08:27A preemptive strike ended with the conquest of eastern Jerusalem.
08:31The formerly divided Holy City, a center of three world religions, was now completely under Israeli control.
08:42The Arabs had said that they would drive the Jews into the sea.
08:48Their plan of winning back Palestine had failed.
08:51A defeat and a humiliation.
08:55Three million Palestinians now live under Israeli occupation.
09:04For the US, Israel is the most important strategic partner in the Middle East.
09:10Many Arabs grow increasingly hostile to this Christian-Jewish alliance.
09:14In jihadist circles ever since the 1980s, parallels have constantly been drawn between the Crusades of the Middle Ages and contemporary politics.
09:28Especially those of the US and Israel today.
09:32The existence of Israel, for instance, is described as the result of a Western Crusade.
09:37Not just Israel and the US are considered enemies.
09:43In 1980, another world power prompts Azam to declare a holy war.
09:49Soviet Russian troops invade Afghanistan.
09:52The 23-year-old Osama bin Laden is enthusiastic about Azam's ideas.
10:10Azam calls for a defensive jihad for the liberation of the Muslim countries.
10:17Not for a worldwide struggle against infidels.
10:19He describes the liberation of Muslim territory as an external or lesser jihad.
10:27It can only succeed if individuals go through a process of spiritual renewal described as the inner greater jihad.
10:36From now on, the teachings of Azam will have a powerful influence on Osama bin Laden.
10:49Azam wants to launch the new jihad in Afghanistan, where during the 1980s, Muslim resistance groups have been fighting the Soviet occupation.
11:02Bin Laden follows his mentor.
11:03Bin Laden follows his mentor and recruits young Saudis in order to defend Muslim soil against the infidels.
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11:31During the 1980s, Abdallah Azzam was the undisputed leader of the Arab warriors in Afghanistan.
11:41Osama bin Laden was a sort of loyal assistant to him. He wasn't even his deputy yet.
11:48He was just the young and perhaps rather naive Saudi who played a role because he contributed a great deal of money,
11:55as well as a large number of Saudi recruits.
11:59Since 1988, bin Laden's troops have been calling themselves Al Qaeda, the Arab word for base or military camp.
12:09These self-appointed holy warriors are fighting for a new rise to power of Islam.
12:16But the jihad against the Soviets is coming to an end.
12:20In 1988, Moscow begins to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan.
12:26For the time being, it remains unclear against whom the holy war will be directed.
12:34In 1989, Azzam dies in Pakistan, the victim of a mysterious assassination.
12:41In Saudi Arabia, bin Laden gains fame for his exploits in the war against the Russians.
12:47But the heroic myth that surrounds him is the product of skillful propaganda.
12:53The war in Afghanistan was won by the Afghans.
13:00The Arabs joined in at a late stage and played hardly any role militarily.
13:05It's always said Osama bin Laden participated in a single battle in 1987.
13:12But on the whole, it's quite clear that the Arabs were more like jihad tourists rather than genuine rebels,
13:19who contributed militarily to the success of the whole enterprise.
13:24Yet bin Laden seems as confident as ever.
13:31After the Gulf War of 1991, his vision becomes specific.
13:37He wants the holy places of Saudi Arabia to be controlled by true believers, like himself.
13:43The Americans are to be driven out.
13:47His harsh criticism of the ruling house of Saad results in a fierce quarrel.
13:53And bin Laden moves to the Sudan.
13:56The country is run by Islamists.
13:59The Sudan is a place of refuge for many similarly minded militants from the Arab world.
14:05The Sudanese government regards bin Laden as an investor who could help with the country's progress.
14:13Indeed, bin Laden initially acts as entrepreneur in the field of road construction.
14:19His political plans are still vague.
14:26He was lacking a big new project that he could tackle.
14:30There are signs that he became depressed, not knowing what to do with his life.
14:39Yet even then, he must have had an inner resolve to fight the Americans.
14:45In the first half of the 1990s, he seems to have been rather unsure of what to do and who to fight against.
14:55Bin Laden decides to further strengthen his spiritual resolve.
14:59Abu Hajir is bin Laden's personal Imam, his own private preacher.
15:18He knows the entire Koran by heart and is well versed in history.
15:23An Al-Qaeda defector will later testify to a meeting between the two men.
15:29One evening in bin Laden's guest house, Hajir apparently uttered two fatwas, religious opinions regarding Islamic law.
15:39The Iraqi is a qualified electrical engineer.
15:42But in these circles, he is accepted as a religious authority.
15:47We are the Islamic leaders of Islam.
15:52Therefore, we will fight against the American Americans.
15:57And we will kill them wherever they were and wherever they were.
16:00Unlike Christianity, Islam has no formal clergy or clerical hierarchy.
16:08And because there is no official clergy, Al-Qaeda can claim for itself to be a clerical authority.
16:14And there is an additional argument.
16:17Al-Qaeda claims the Islamic scholars, the so-called Ulama, are all corrupt, that they are in the service of their governments and have turned away from the true faith.
16:29Only they, Al-Qaeda, know how to interpret the Koran correctly by taking it literally.
16:35And that means we read in the word.
16:39Abu Hajir's first fatwa dictates that the attack on American soldiers is justified.
16:46Civilians who support America are also legitimate targets.
16:51The second fatwa states that it is acceptable for Muslims to be killed too.
16:57The good ones will go to heaven anyway, while the bad ones are no loss to the world.
17:02It is a self-granted license to kill.
17:07Their thinking is not determined by religion or by the Koran, but by personal fanaticism.
17:14In New York in 1993, six people die, and over 1,000 are injured,
17:20when a vast explosive charge goes off inside a van parked beneath the World Trade Center.
17:25The perpetrator is Ramzi Youssef, an Islamic militant.
17:35He is arrested and states that he acted because of his hatred of Israel and the Jews.
17:40It's still unclear if Bin Laden was behind the blast.
17:47In 1995, he attacks Saudi King Fahd in an open letter.
17:55It is not acceptable that the country develops into an American protectorate.
18:00To defend your shaking throne and to protect the country's oil reserves.
18:11The U.S., the Saudis protecting power, decides to silence this dangerous critic.
18:16President Clinton puts pressure on the Sudan, urging its government to expel Bin Laden from the country.
18:28The Al-Qaeda chieftain calls a meeting of his warriors.
18:32He informs them that the long arm of the Americans reaches even to this far-flung corner of the globe.
18:38Bin Laden has to pay a high price for his constant provocations.
18:44The Sudanese will deport him.
18:47They order him to dissolve his organization in their country.
18:51Bin Laden gives each of his warriors an airline ticket home and $2,400 in cash.
18:56The Sudanese government has already confiscated Bin Laden's real estate, as well as the property of his construction company and his cash assets.
19:17The Sudanese government has already confiscated Bin Laden's real estate, as well as the property of his construction company and his cash assets.
19:26He has probably lost between $20 and $30 million.
19:32He turns his back on the Sudan with only $50,000 in his pocket.
19:37It is the low point of his career.
19:41He blames the Americans.
19:42Bin Laden is granted a final luxury.
19:56The Sudanese charter a private jet for him and his closest associates.
20:00There is only one country prepared to grant him asylum.
20:09Afghanistan.
20:11Since 1996, the Taliban have been in power here.
20:16The regime is deeply fundamentalist, with a brutal interpretation of the Sharia, the Islamic law.
20:23For fanatics like Bin Laden, Afghanistan is a kind of Islamist paradise.
20:39But for the Taliban, he's like an uninvited guest.
20:42With a few close companions, he moves into the mountains.
20:59The refuge is called Tora Bora.
21:02The self-appointed savior of Islam cuts a rather lonely figure.
21:06But Bin Laden enjoys his role.
21:10Wasn't Mohammed driven into exile in the year 622?
21:15While on the run, the prophet too had been forced to hide from his enemies.
21:21It was only after this that Islam began its victorious rise.
21:25The idea of moving out of Mecca seems to have meant a great deal to him.
21:38He comes from the land of the holy sites, Mecca and Medina, and moves to Afghanistan,
21:44which is basically the wilderness, to return victorious at some later stage.
21:48Bin Laden regards himself as the representative of all persecuted Muslims.
21:57Like the prophet, centuries before him, he decides to go on the offensive.
22:03In 1996, he drafts his declaration of war on the USA.
22:08The declaration of war on America by the hermit Bin Laden,
22:11was a war on the USA.
22:12The declaration of war on America by the hermit Bin Laden, is both absurd and disturbing.
22:15The declaration of war on America by the hermit Bin Laden, is both absurd and disturbing.
22:16He wanted the United States to replicate the United States.
22:21The declaration of war on America by the hermit Bin Laden, is both absurd and disturbing.
22:26He wanted the United States to replicate the war on the USA.
22:32The declaration of war on America by the hermit Bin Laden, is both absurd and disturbing.
22:40He wanted the United States to replicate the same problem that had happened to the Soviet Union,
22:50which was that the Soviets went into Afghanistan in 1979, spent 10 years there, and withdrew.
22:57And what happened? The Soviet Union shattered. It fell apart.
23:01And Bin Laden actually believed that he could do the same thing to the United States.
23:06It would become the dis-United States. And that would open up the way for Islam to regain its rightful place,
23:14and as the preeminent power in the world.
23:21In March 1997, Bin Laden gives his first interview to a Western television team.
23:27The well-known war reporter Peter Arnett, wants a more precise idea of what Bin Laden is planning.
23:33Is the jihad directed against the U.S. government or the people of the United States?
23:44We have focused our declaration of jihad on striking at the U.S. soldiers inside Arabia,
23:50the country of the two holy places, Mecca and Medina.
23:53Therefore, even though American civilians are not targeted in our plan, they must leave.
23:59We do not guarantee their safety.
24:03What are your future plans?
24:08You'll see them and hear about them in the media.
24:12God willing.
24:14In Afghanistan, Bin Laden allies himself with a former comrade-in-arms, Ayman al-Sawahiri.
24:27He too is an Islamic militant and jihadist.
24:31During the 1980s, the Egyptian doctor fought alongside Bin Laden against the Russians in Afghanistan.
24:37The two men decide to join forces, although their strategies are different.
24:46Bin Laden wants to fight American supremacy.
24:50Sawahiri wants to trigger an Islamic revolution in Egypt.
24:54America supports the Mubarak regime in the country and is therefore an enemy.
24:59Together, Bin Laden and Sawahiri decide to use terror to achieve their objectives.
25:07Yes, and Allah.
25:08We are not going to take the war against the Russians.
25:11The most important thing is to move forward to the right word.
25:15The best word is.
25:24Egypt is a popular destination for Western tourists.
25:27Every year, millions visit its ancient sites.
25:34At the end of 1997, a dream holiday turns into a death trap.
25:41The morning air is still cool as the first visitors gather outside the temple of Hatshepsut.
25:48I had an uneasy premonition.
25:56Franz Kessler is a journalist with Austrian radio.
26:01He and his girlfriend are in Luxor as tourists.
26:04The first time I'd been to Egypt was as a young reporter covering the funeral of Sadat, who'd been murdered by Islamists.
26:17Even then, I could sense that things were brewing behind the scenes that the government had no control over.
26:23Around 9am, Islamic militants disguised as policemen approach the tourists.
26:36Suddenly, there are shouts of, Allah is great.
26:39Then, the attackers start shooting at the visitors.
26:43At first, I was in a complete panic.
26:57And because I'd already had this premonition, I suddenly felt all hot and thought to myself, you idiot, why did you travel to Egypt?
27:04Franz Kessler has managed to take cover and remains uninjured.
27:13Dozens of other tourists are cut down by bullets.
27:18Nobody comes to their assistance.
27:21The slaughter continues for a full 45 minutes.
27:29I remember a pile of corpses.
27:32They were all dead.
27:36Something awful has happened.
27:39And they're lying there.
27:41And I somehow had to get out of there.
27:4558 people are killed.
27:48The killers aren't deliberately killing Christians.
27:52The blow is aimed at the country's regime.
27:55The plan is to destabilize Egypt by cutting off its income from tourism.
28:02There are some indications in specialist literature that Ayman al-Zawahiri ordered this attack.
28:11I don't think it has been sufficiently proven, but it certainly is a possibility.
28:15It is a possibility.
28:16But it is a possibility.
28:17The outbreak is not a possibility.
28:18It is a possibility.
28:19It is a possibility.
28:20The attack is a possibility.
28:21It is a possibility.
28:22The attack is a possibility.
28:23The attack will meet with little approval in Arab countries.
28:24The main Muslim response is one of horror and disgust.
28:28They decide to concentrate their efforts exclusively on America,
28:32hoping an attack on the U.S. will elicit a positive response from the Arab world
28:37and further the cause of jihad.
28:40In 1998, bin Laden and Sawahiri announced the formation of the World Islamic Front
28:47for jihad against Jews and crusaders.
28:49What you have to understand about al-Qaeda is different from any other of the jihadi groups.
28:58All of the jihadi groups up until al-Qaeda were nationalist groups.
29:03You know, they were Palestinian or they were Iraqi.
29:07They had nationalist goals.
29:10What was unique about al-Qaeda is that bin Laden had this imagination
29:15that it was not just a war against a government,
29:18the government of Egypt or the government of Jordan.
29:21It was a war against all non-Islam.
29:26It was a war against all unbelievers.
29:30From now on, al-Qaeda seeks global conflict with America.
29:36August 1998.
29:38A car bomb explodes outside the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi.
29:43213 people die, most of them Africans.
29:48Simultaneously, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
29:52A car bomb detonates outside the U.S. Embassy.
29:5611 people are killed.
29:57Again, only African victims.
30:03October 2000.
30:05Off the Yemeni city of Aden,
30:08terrorists steer a boat laden with explosives
30:10into the U.S. destroyer coal.
30:12Seventeen American sailors are killed.
30:18Bin Laden wants to provoke America into a military counter-strike.
30:23But the U.S. doesn't rise to the bait.
30:262000 is an election year,
30:28and the outgoing president, Bill Clinton,
30:30feels that a military strike would be inappropriate.
30:34Bin Laden continues to defy the Americans.
30:37His dearest wish is for the superpower to attack Afghanistan,
30:42where it will be worn down like the Soviets.
30:45To achieve this aim,
30:47he decides to attack America on its own soil.
30:50They had the plan,
30:54the idea of striking office buildings
30:56and the Pentagon and so on.
30:58That was all a part of their playbook,
31:01but they didn't have the personnel.
31:03They didn't have anybody who could pull it off.
31:05The people they were trying to train
31:07didn't speak English,
31:08had never lived in the West.
31:10They were never going to succeed.
31:12Training terrorists in the use of light weapons
31:17and in close-quarter combat
31:19is not enough to deliver a decisive blow against America.
31:27But there is some progress in Osama Bin Laden's planning.
31:32An Islamist group from Hamburg
31:34is on its way to an Al-Qaeda training camp in Afghanistan.
31:37The head of the group
31:46is the Egyptian national Mohammed Atta.
31:49He has just gained a master's degree
31:51in urban planning from the University of Hamburg.
31:57When in walks Mohammed Atta
31:59and three other guys from Hamburg
32:02who have lived in the West,
32:05whose language abilities were really good,
32:06who had technical capacity,
32:09they were like, it was like a dream.
32:14Osama Bin Laden invites
32:16the unusual Al-Qaeda recruits from Hamburg
32:18to his guest house near Jalalabad.
32:22After sunset, they break their fast together.
32:26It is Ramadan.
32:28This evening, Bin Laden tells Mohammed Atta
32:30and his companion Ziad Jarrah
32:33about their plans to attack the U.S.
32:35O-Qaeda
33:00Bin Laden offers them a special privilege.
33:25They may go to heaven as martyrs.
33:30Bin Laden really believed, at least he seemed to believe, that America was
34:00so fragile that if you can hit it in certain points, it would crumble.
34:07And so he selected, he wanted to hit the headquarters of its trade, headquarters of his politics, and
34:17the headquarters of his defense.
34:19And he thought if he could attack those four places, the two towers, the U.S. Capitol and
34:29the Pentagon, that that would cause a crack inside the American establishment and the
34:36country would begin to crumble.
34:38In January 2000, Atta and Jarrah are once again at the Al Qaeda headquarters in Afghanistan.
34:48Young and well-educated men in search of a meaning for their lives.
34:52They want to act in the name of God.
34:56In reality, they're just planning acts of terror.
35:00I think Muhammad Atta wanted to be a figure in history.
35:07And the West was an alien culture to him.
35:09So how does a young man like that make a statement?
35:12How does he affect history?
35:14How does he make his mark?
35:18That's what Al Qaeda offered him and other young men like him, a chance to make history.
35:27All they had to do was die.
35:32The pilots complete their flight training at the Huffman Aviation School in Florida.
35:42Atta's accomplice, Ziad Jarrah, proudly has his photo taken in the cockpit.
35:49In the morning of September 11, 2001, a total of 19 terrorists check in at various airports
35:57across the U.S.
36:00A security camera captures the final images of Muhammad Atta.
36:06Shortly afterwards, he and four accomplices gain control of American Airlines Flight 11.
36:18At almost the same time, three more planes disappear from the radar screens.
36:23They, too, have been hijacked by terrorists.
36:27They, too, have been hijacked by terrorists and they, too, have been hijacked by terrorists.
36:29In Afghanistan, it is nine and a half hours later.
36:59On this 11th of September, bin Laden and his men have withdrawn to the mountains.
37:07On the radio, they hear the news coming from America.
37:15And when the first plane hit, everyone was crying, you know, glory to God and so on.
37:25And bin Laden just held up one finger to indicate that was just the first.
37:33What happened that day in the cave in Afghanistan is well known.
37:37Bin Laden boasted about it in numerous discussions.
37:40It was later revealed through the interrogation of captured al-Qaeda leaders.
37:45And then the second plane struck and he held up another finger.
37:50And then there was an attack on the Pentagon.
38:11And he held up his third finger.
38:26America under attack.
38:28The superpower suddenly appears extremely vulnerable.
38:32The horrible scenes from New York are watched by a shocked audience across the globe, live on television.
38:42Almost 3,000 people die on this day.
38:46The criminals arrogantly claim to have acted in the name of Islam.
38:50But this was mass murder, pure and simple.
39:00Most terror is a form of theater.
39:05The terrorists want to gain attention for their causes.
39:09What separates al-Qaeda from other terrorist groups is that it also has an appetite for blood.
39:20It wants to leave as many bodies on the ground as possible.
39:23So there was a dual goal in these attacks.
39:27One was to create these amazing cinematic images that would be unforgettable as they are.
39:34And the other was to kill as many people as they could.
39:36And those two things make al-Qaeda really unique.
39:44Their aspirations for these unbelievably dramatic effects and their love of carnage.
39:56On September 16th, President Bush declares a war on terrorism.
40:02We understand.
40:04And the American people are beginning to understand.
40:06And this crusade, this war on terrorism, is going to take a while.
40:18George W. Bush only used the term crusade on one occasion.
40:24One can imagine the word crusade simply being ignored and no one being too offended by it.
40:30But the jihadists base their entire propaganda on this one word.
40:36These Americans want to conquer us.
40:38And of course, the jihadist propaganda was promoted on a huge scale, in mosques and on the Internet.
40:45And that's probably how it first came to people's notice.
40:48It created a huge rift, of course, and a pretty intense wave of anti-Americanism.
40:53On September 20th, 2001, George Bush tries to calm things down and formulates the message differently.
41:04Terrorists are traitors to their own faith, trying, in effect, to hijack Islam itself.
41:14The enemy of America is not our many Muslim friends.
41:18It is not our many Arab friends.
41:21Our enemy is a radical network of terrorists and every government that supports them.
41:27America hits back in October 2001, with air attacks on Afghanistan.
41:38The aim is to kill Osama bin Laden.
41:42While hundreds of his fighters die, the al-Qaeda leader survives all aerial attacks.
41:48Anti-Taliban militias are encouraged to continue the battle on the ground.
41:58At the end of 2001, only a few U.S. units fight in Afghanistan.
42:05Washington is reluctant to send any larger detachments.
42:11CIA troops accompany their Afghan allies.
42:15But their loyalty is only half-hearted.
42:18Bin Laden escapes.
42:25The Americans have missed the chance of eliminating the mastermind behind the New York terror attacks.
42:32A defeat for the superpower.
42:34The wanted man will remain undetected for several more years.
42:40Al-Qaeda's campaign of terror continues.
42:42Bali, 2002.
42:43Over 200 tourists die in a bomb explosion.
42:54Cherba, 2002.
42:55Fourteen Germans are killed in an attack.
43:00Madrid, 2004.
43:02One hundred and ninety people die in attacks on commuter trains.
43:07London, 2005.
43:08Fifty-four die in bomb attacks on the London underground.
43:15Dozens of attacks kill hundreds of civilians.
43:18Abbotabad, Pakistan.
43:28May the 1st, 2011.
43:32For many years, Bin Laden has been living in seclusion in a suburban compound of this sleepy garrison town.
43:39He feels safe, believing the Americans are unaware of the whereabouts of their public enemy number one.
44:04But the superpower has Bin Laden in its sight.
44:32Ten years after the New York attacks, U.S. agents have picked up a trail that leads to Pakistan.
44:41In the morning hours of May the 2nd, U.S. Special Forces, Navy SEALs, penetrate Bin Laden's compound in Abbotabad.
44:52And killed the man who brought terror to America on September the 11th, 2001.
44:58Tonight, I can report to the American people and to the world that the United States has conducted an operation that killed Osama Bin Laden, the leader of al-Qaeda.
45:24Does that bring the history of so-called holy wars to an end?
45:31Images are etched into our memories that still arouse fear.
45:36Prejudices that stir up conflicts and deepen rifts.
45:40The Holy Land and its three religions, unable to find peace.
45:51The historical epochs when colliding worlds tried to dominate each other have come to an end.
45:58But they continue to be felt.
46:00History tells us of the struggle between the Orient and the Occident, of religious conflicts to achieve victory and glory.
46:11Yet, whenever people fought wars in the name of God, they left behind trails of death and destruction.
46:19There was always the alternative, the path of tolerance and understanding.
46:42So, why have religions that demand peace continue to fight against each other?
46:57Perhaps because they got lost in their pursuit of earthly power.
47:02No war has ever been holy.
47:14No war has ever been holy.
47:32No war has ever been holy.
47:54No war has ever been holy.