New AppleTV+ Podcast Unpacks Investigation Into 1993 Bombing of World Trade Center

*Apple TV+ has debuted a new Apple Original podcast “Operation: Tradebom,” which tracks the investigation into the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center and how this first attempt to bring down the towers changed our world forever.

Hosted by Academy Award nominee and Emmy-winning producer, director and screenwriter Marc Smerling, the first two episodes of the new nine-part series released on Monday, January 9.

The series unpacks the arrival of terrorism to American shores, through the voices of those who watched it happen firsthand – from Cairo in 1981 to downtown New York City on 9/11.

Listen to the trailer HERE

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This was a passion project for everyone involved. Thanks!!! pic.twitter.com/hT8k51DhgL

— Marc Smerling (@msmerling) January 9, 2023

Per the official synopsis: Eight years before 9/11, investigators in New York’s Joint terrorism Task Force, a ragtag team of FBI paper pushers and NYPD detectives, found themselves conducting a new type of international investigation, which they called Operation Tradebom. A group of men set off a bomb in the garage beneath the World Trade Center intending the North tower to fall into the South tower. At the time, it was the largest improvised explosive device ever detonated on American soil, leaving behind a 100-foot crater five stories deep. The explosion killed six people and injured thousands. But the story has been overshadowed by what came next: 9/11, two Gulf Wars and an endless war in Afghanistan.

“Operation: Tradebom” tracks the hunt for the mastermind behind the bombing as members of the JTTF come to a frightening realization: what they were dealing with was much larger than anyone understood, born from long-standing tensions over the U.S. exodus from Afghanistan and Israel’s treatment of Palestinians in the Middle East.

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