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The Long Fuse · Season One · Episode 6 · 35 min

The Quiet Student

Before the plot had a name, there was a young man with a measuring tape. Episode 6 of The Long Fuse follows Mohamed Atta from a boyhood in Egypt's Nile Delta to Hamburg, to the camps in Afghanistan, to flight school in Florida and a hotel in Spain in July 2001, told as the 9/11 Commission and the record tell it, never from his side. It ends in Crawford, Texas, on August 6, 2001, with a briefing whose title you already know.

Disclaimer: a dramatization based on public records, including The 9/11 Commission Report, court filings and trial testimony. Some scenes and dialogue are reconstructed or composited. Voices are AI-generated and are not intended to resemble any real person. Not affiliated with or endorsed by any person or agency depicted. Allegations in court filings are unproven claims. No private victim is named beyond the public record, and people the Commission identified only by pseudonym keep those pseudonyms.