

Kearns, one of ten commissioners overseeing the 9/11 Commission in 2002.

Annie Parisse as Liz, an English professor with whom O'Neill is having an affair in New York.Samer Bisharat as Walid bin Attash, also known as Khallad, a Yemeni terrorist who helped in the preparation of the 1998 East Africa Embassy bombings and the USS Cole bombing, and acted as a bodyguard to Osama bin Laden.Tawfeek Barhom as Khalid al-Mihdhar, one of five hijackers of American Airlines Flight 77, which crashed into the Pentagon as part of the September 11 attacks.


Sullivan Jones as Floyd Bennet, an FBI agent in the I-49 counterterrorism squad who works closely with Kathy Shaughnessy.Their dates are constantly interrupted by his work for the FBI, and she finds the secretive and dangerous nature of his job a difficult obstacle to overcome in their relationship. Ella Rae Peck as Heather, a special education teacher, originally from Ohio, who begins to see Soufan.Virginia Kull as Kathy Shaughnessy, an FBI agent in the I-49 counterterrorism squad who works closely with Floyd Bennet.The character is based on FBI agent Mark Rossini. His presence at the CIA is met with severe distrust. His assignment is to ensure that the FBI receives all the same intelligence the CIA does. Louis Cancelmi as Vince Stuart, an FBI agent embedded into CIA's Alec Station.Chesney has been described as the most composited of all the main characters Soufan commented that Chesney is a composite of "at least four people." About to retire, he uses his interrogation skills to extract important intelligence from suspects in the struggle against terrorist threats. Bill Camp as Robert Chesney, an FBI veteran in New York's counterterrorism unit.The character is based on at least three people within the CIA, including Alfreda Frances Bikowsky. Similar to Schmidt, she believes the CIA is uniquely positioned to combat terrorist attacks and therefore decides to conceal information from the FBI. Wrenn Schmidt as Diane Marsh, a CIA analyst who works under Martin Schmidt.Soufan is infuriated by the perversion of Islam by enemies of the United States and goes so far as to go undercover in terrorists' gathering spaces in order to hunt al-Qaeda and prevent attacks. Tahar Rahim as Ali Soufan, a Muslim Lebanese-American FBI agent on John O'Neill's I-49 counterterrorism squad who eventually becomes his protégé.He is convinced that the United States has been targeted for attack by al-Qaeda but is faced with hostility from other federal agencies, particularly the CIA. Jeff Daniels as John O'Neill, the chief of the New York FBI's Counterterrorism Center known as "I-49".It follows members of the I-49 Squad in New York and Alec Station in Washington, D.C., the counter-terrorism divisions of the FBI and CIA, respectively, as they travel the world fighting for ownership of information while seemingly working toward the same goal – trying to prevent an imminent attack on U.S. The Looming Tower traces the "rising threat of Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda in the late 1990s and how the rivalry between the FBI and CIA during that time may have inadvertently set the path for the tragedy of 9/11.
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The series stars an ensemble cast featuring Jeff Daniels, Tahar Rahim, Wrenn Schmidt, Bill Camp, Louis Cancelmi, Virginia Kull, Ella Rae Peck, Sullivan Jones, Michael Stuhlbarg, and Peter Sarsgaard. Futterman also acted as the series's showrunner and Gibney directed the first episode. The 10-episode drama series was created and executive produced by Dan Futterman, Alex Gibney, and Wright. The Looming Tower is an American television miniseries, based on Lawrence Wright's 2006 book of the same name, which premiered on Hulu on February 28, 2018.
