Best of 2025: INVESTIGATION: The 9/11 suspect - part 1
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🗓️ 30 December 2025
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Was there another man involved in plotting the 9/11 terrorist attacks that killed thousands in 2001? And why did British police, acting on the instructions of American law enforcement, let him go?
This is part one of a three-part special investigative series, first published in September.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, it's Manveen. |
| 0:01.8 | We hope you're having a wonderful Christmas break. |
| 0:05.0 | While we're sleeping off the turkey and mince pies, |
| 0:07.6 | we didn't want to leave you without an episode of the story to listen to. |
| 0:11.2 | So, we've picked out a few of our favourites from 2025's archive. |
| 0:16.2 | Happy listening and happy Christmas. |
| 0:27.6 | This interview is being audio and video recorded. You have been arrested for the preparation, instigation or commission of acts of terrorism. |
| 0:36.6 | Do you understand why you've been arrested? |
| 0:41.5 | Yeah, but I didn't, you know, agree that I did anything wrong. |
| 0:48.8 | Okay, well, the purposes of these interviews is for us to establish the facts. |
| 0:54.3 | Sure. |
| 0:56.7 | In a room at Paddington Green Police Station in West London, |
| 1:01.0 | a middle-aged man sits across from two British detectives. |
| 1:05.1 | It's a cramped space, sound-proved with grey felt covering the walls. |
| 1:11.6 | It's September 22nd, 2001. |
| 1:15.6 | 11 days earlier, on September the 11th, |
| 1:18.6 | four planes were hijacked, |
| 1:20.6 | and three crashed into American landmarks, |
| 1:23.6 | two into the Twin Towers in New York, |
| 1:26.6 | and one into the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. |
| 1:31.6 | 2,97 people from at least 90 countries were killed. |
| 1:38.6 | Investigators around the globe were dispatched to find out |
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