Americans keen to buy British drama of Sept 11

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A Channel 4 dramatisation of the September 11 plot through the eyes of the terrorists is likely to be bought by American television.

Peter Dale, the channel's head of documentary, said the same US broadcasters who originally pulled out of funding the £2 million film The Hamburg Cell because the subject was too sensitive were now "quite keen" to buy it having seen the finished film.

The two-hour drama tells the story of the students-turned-suicide terrorists from their initial meetings in Hamburg through to the moment that they boarded their planes on the day of the attacks.

The drama, which Channel 4 insisted was based on "exhaustive documentary research", is the first attempt by programme makers to examine the motives of the killers. It has drawn accusations that it will encourage others to become terrorists.

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