![]() Based on the real-life agent, Ali Soufan serves as the moral center of Looming Tower, bearing the patience, humanity and determination you’d like to imagine all of our law enforcement officials possess. Packed with new information and a deep historical perspective, The Looming Tower is a sweeping, unprecedented history of the long road to September 11. The rivalry between the FBI and CIA and how it may have inadvertently set the stage for Osama bin Laden and the tragedy of 9/11. Neither agency bothers to hide its disdain for the other: O’Neill calls Schmidt’s team “the Manson family,” while a CIA analyst refers to two FBI agents as “the retarded twins.” Into this morass of infighting and dick-swinging comes Ali Soufan (Tahar Rahim), a Lebanese-American Muslim who brings a much-needed cultural and linguistic understanding to the FBI. FBI counter terrorism chief John O’Neill ( Jeff Daniels) - a brash, obstreperous bulldozer of a man who makes entertainingly crass threats like “I’ll shove that thing so far up your ass you’ll be combing sh** out of your pompous f***ing beard” - clashes regularly with his condescending, intel-hoarding CIA counterpart Martin Schmidt ( Peter Sarsgaard, sporting the aforementioned “pompous f***ing beard”). 28) begins in 1998, as the CIA and FBI are pursuing separate (and apparently very unequal) investigations into Al-Qaeda and its fatwa-issuing leader Osama Bin Laden. ![]() Based on Lawrence Wright’s book of the same name, Looming Tower (launching Feb.
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