| MUMBAI: Following the success of the documentary special Inside
9/11, National Geographic Channels International (NGCI) and National Geographic
Channel have commissioned Towers Productions for a two-hour special Bin Laden’s
Spy in America.
Bin Laden’s Spy
in America, details the secret case of an Islamic fundamentalist who joins
the US Army while playing a key role in terrorism plots on the road to 9/11. The
two-hour documentary will premiere in the US on 28 August and internationally
on 10 September 2006. NGCI executive VP content Sydney Suissa says, “This
is an unknown and astounding story of the deception that allowed 9/11 to happen.
It’s far more riveting than any spy novel could ever be”. The film tells the story
of an ex-Egyptian Special Forces major who infiltrated the US intelligence community
while working for terrorist organisations like Egyptian Islamic Jihad and al Qaeda.
He successfully enlisted in the US Army despite having been listed as a suspected
terrorist on a State Department’s watch list. While serving in the US
Army, he provided training to several of the terrorists who took part in the 1993
World Trade Center attack. He also compiled an al Qaeda terror manual using information
from documents taken during his stay at Fort Bragg; and coordinated bin Laden’s
relocation from Afghanistan to the Sudan. He later became an FBI informant at
around the same time that he was training terrorists in al Qaeda camps in the
Middle East. The documentary is in part based on the upcoming investigative
book Triple Cross by Peter Lance. Following its premiere, Bin Laden’s
Spy in America will be available for international distribution at the television
event Mipcom, which takes place in Cannes in October. | 
