US: The Looming Tower

Eatchipz · 9 Mar 2018 at 23:00

The Looming Tower traces the rising threat of Osama Bin Laden and Al-Qaeda, and takes a controversial look at how the rivalry between the CIA and FBI may have inadvertently set the stage for the tragedy of 9/11 and the war in Iraq.

Started watching this last week and I have thoroughly enjoyed it so far! 4 Episodes up on Amazon at the moment with new episodes each Thursday.

Rannoch · 9 Mar 2018 at 23:17

I like it. It wasn’t until episode 2 I realised it was the dude from Dumb and Dumber lol

hudson86 · 12 Mar 2018 at 12:29

Enjoying it, didnt expect it on Amazon Prime in the UK so was a bonus to see the 1st 3 episodes a couple of weeks back.

Its an excellent book that goes into a fair bit of detail re Al Qaeda , Bin Laden etc before it even gets to the CIA / FBI , well worth a read even if you watch the series.

The series has started from quite late in and seems to be mostly about translating the core CIA / FBI / NSA squabbles. Plus from what I remember the book seemed more even handed ( as you'd expect with a non fiction investigation ) and didnt seem to take sides , whereas the series seems to have mostly penned the Alec Station bloke as the bad guy.

bake73 · 18 Mar 2018 at 20:11

Just watched the first 5 and its really good.

rids57 · 23 Sep 2018 at 02:05

I just binged this over the last two nights and really enjoyed it. I managed it in two nights because it just wouldn't let me stop watching.