EXCLUSIVE: The 1993 World Trade Center bombing is to be the subject of Apple’s latest original podcast series.
The tech giant is launching Operation: Tradebom from Marc Smerling, producer of Capturing The Friedmans and The Jinx. The series will follow the events leading up to and following the then-largest improvised explosive device detonated on American soil – the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
It will also detail a history of modern terrorism, starting in Cairo in 1981 and ending in the U.S. on September 11, 2001. The 1993 World Trade Center bombing killed six people and injured thousands, leaving behind a 100-foot crater five stories deep.
Investigators from New York City’s Joint Terrorism Task Force, a ragtag team of FBI agents and NYPD detectives, found themselves conducting a new type of international investigation called Operation Tradebom.
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