Based upon ”The List” by Jeff Childers. Illustrations for New York Times readers courtesy of summer intern Biff Spackle.
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Based upon ”The List” by Jeff Childers. Illustrations for New York Times readers courtesy of summer intern Biff Spackle.
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On Tuesday, September 11, 2001, nineteen al-Qaeda hijackers seized four commercial airliners in a coordinated terrorist attack on the United States. At 8:46 a.m., American Airlines Flight 11 struck the North Tower of the World Trade Center. Seventeen minutes later, United Airlines Flight 175 slammed into the South Tower between floors 77 and 85.
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The DEA was ready to pounce. A $1+ billion cocaine- and money-laundering machine run by Hezbollah had been discovered. Cash went straight to Iran’s leaders. The DEA had spent 10 years building the case. Wiretaps. Cooperating witnesses. The money pipeline mapped from Caracas to Beirut to New Jersey. Suddenly — under Obama — the case died. This is the true story in pictures*.
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