Radicals at Home and Abroad: Ali Soufan came closer than anyone to preventing 9/11 - now he's worried about the domestic threat.

The Bureau with Frank Figliuzzi

Frank Figliuzzi

News, True Crime

4.9 • 751 Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2022

⏱️ 79 minutes

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FBI Special Agent Ali Soufan resigned after publicly chastising the CIA for not sharing intelligence with him which could have prevented 9/11. The Hulu TV series "The Looming Tower" chronicles Soufan's amazing journey. Soufan is winner of the 2018 Kennedy Award, author of "The Black Banners: The Inside Story of 9/11 and the War Against al-Qaeda, and, Anatomy of Terror: From the Death of Bin Laden to the Rise fo the Islamic State. Now he's set his sights on another threat - the threat of our own people. Follow Ali Soufan on Twitter: https://mobile.twitter.com/ali_h_soufan https://mobile.twitter.com/TheSoufanGroup Follow Frank on Twitter: https://twitter.com/FrankFigliuzzi1 Thanks Avast.com! Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

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0:00.0	Thanks to Avast for supporting the Bureau with Frank Faglutzi.
0:04.8	Avast's new all-in-one solution, Avast One, helps you take control of your safety and privacy online through a range of features.
0:11.6	Learn more about Avast one at Avast.com. I'm Frank Figuzy, former FBI assistant director for counterintelligence.
0:32.5	Join me on a journey to explore our nation's security, the forces that threaten it, and the people
0:40.3	who preserve it. Let's talk with insiders in and around the intelligence community, law enforcement,
0:48.0	and the military, including, of course, the FBI. They'll take us deep into their stories, their mission, and their lives as we go behind
0:59.7	and beyond the Bureau.
1:06.2	For me, it was the end of innocence.
1:08.1	I wonder if we're really all on the same time.
1:10.2	It was a horrific moment.
1:11.5	Past his prologue.
1:12.5	We just identified the mastermind of nine.
1:14.7	I think you need to be concerned about this guy called Usama bin Laden.
1:18.0	My resignation was because I was upset with the government.
1:20.4	American extremists travel abroad for training, orientation, indoctrination.
1:25.1	Canada identified nine American organizations as an international terrorist organization.
1:30.3	There is little to zero evidence that it actually stops terrorist attacks.
1:36.3	A 2006 New Yorker magazine article described Ali Sufahn as coming closer than anyone to preventing the
1:46.6	September 11th attacks and implied that he would have succeeded had the CIA been willing to share
1:52.8	information with him. He resigned from the FBI in 2005 after publicly chastising the CIA for
2:00.0	not sharing intelligence with him, which could
2:02.9	have prevented the attacks. Ali Sufhan has published two books, including the black banners,
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