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With the attack on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, America has vastly changed its methods of defense of its borders. This program, from Defending America, examines how U.S. Customs workers are trained, what weapons they use, and how they responded to the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Now on the forefront of homeland security, this agency is prepared to thwart future attacks.
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When the Soviet empire disintegrated in 1991, U.S. fears of nuclear annihilation receded with it. But today there is chilling evidence that Americans face a new kind of nuclear menace, not from a rival superpower but from terrorist groups and even individuals. Witness the arrest of an American accused of trying to develop a dirty bomb; a diagram discovered for a nuclear device at an Al-Qaeda safe house in Kabul; dozens of reported cases of attempted...
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Since September 11, 2001, the world has certainly changed. But has al Qaeda? In this ABC News program, correspondent Jim Wooten scrutinizes Osama bin Laden's terrorist organization two years after the attacks on the U.S. To what extent, if any, have its aims and objectives been modified by the ousting of Saddam Hussein and other recent events? In addition, reports from three hotspots in America's ongoing war on terror-Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan-are...
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Dan Rather Remembers 9/11 is a special broadcast hosted by the man who was watched by tens of millions of viewers on the day America was attacked. This video shares his personal recollections as well as poignant stories about how much our country has changed and sacrificed in the last decade.
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With cyber threats and ransomware on the rise globally, the Biden administration has enlisted America’s tech titans to help blunt their effects. Amazon, Microsoft, and Google, are all in discussions with Washington over how to strengthen the nation’s critical infrastructure defenses against a growing array of both private and state-sponsored attacks. Skeptics question just how much can be achieved, given how connected U.S. society has become,...
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In the Cold War era, democratic values of equality, liberty, and tolerance sustained the countries of Western Europe and North America. With the fall of communism, the question becomes, can democracy survive without a clear-cut enemy? Internal pressures have begun to emerge: voting and other forms of democratic expression are in steady decline; the middle class is disappearing; answers to difficult moral questions seem to elude us; and government...
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Sitting on top of the world's biggest patch of oil, the extended family that runs Saudi Arabia has managed to fend off the assaults of modernity and democracy since the state's foundation. But the triple shocks of 9/11, the US-led invasion of Iraq and the al-Qaeda bombings inside the kingdom have catapulted Saudi Arabia into the limelight. The United States wants Saudi Arabia and other Arab states to embrace democracy and join it in the War on Terror,...
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The international community currently faces a global refugee crisis and mass atrocities in Iraq, Myanmar, Syria, Yemen, and other countries. How should the West respond? Proponents of humanitarian intervention—the use of force to halt human rights abuses—argue that the world’s most powerful nations have a responsibility to protect innocent people around the planet. Beyond saving lives, they contend, intervention deters would-be abusers and ensures...
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A 600-kilometer wall of concrete and barbed wire-Israel's official answer to Palestinian attacks. Visiting the West Bank town of Abu Dis, located on the route of the barrier, this program explains how Israel's solution is a Palestinian problem. Abu Dis business owners, leaders, and everyday citizens communicate a painful reality: the finished wall will bar thousands from their lands and livelihoods, and from nearby Jerusalem. The program balances...
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This episode focuses on the establishment of the International War Crimes Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. Cherif Bassiouni, DePaul University law professor heading the UN War Crimes Commission, speaks about the character of the Tribunal. Statements by Clyde Snow (forensic anthropologist), Aryeh Neier (executive director, Human Rights Watch), Madeleine Albright, Elie Wiesel, Lawrence Eagleberger, Feryal Gharahi (Equality Now), Zeljko Raznjatovic...
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Sudan has been accused of providing a breeding ground for Islamic terrorists. With unprecedented access and powerful images - including FBI surveillance tape of men stirring explosives in a New York basement for a plot to blow up the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel - this documentary examines Sudanese-backed plots against the U.S. The film features discussions with terrorists who say they received military training in Sudan, and footage of a camp alleged...
13) Return to Mosul
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Trapped by an ISIS firefight, CNN's Arwa Damon and Brice Laine took shelter with an ordinary Iraqi family in East Mosul. Two months after their escape, the pair returned to discover the fate of the soldiers and civilians they met, and to find out how the city and its people are recovering after years under ISIS control.
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After beheading prisoners and seizing territory in the Middle East, the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, or ISIS, declared that it was establishing a new caliphate in the region. U.S. airstrikes and the deployment of military advisers have done little to rein in the militant group, and its power seems to be growing. What should the United States' next steps be? Should the U.S. goal be containment, or must ISIS be defeated?
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In this video Nobel Peace Prize laureate Elie Wiesel reflects upon his life, work, and concerns for mankind's future. The celebrated author of Night reconstructed his life after surviving Auschwitz to write, teach, and campaign for human rights. As a journalist, prolific author, and human rights activist, Wiesel focuses on how human beings dehumanize others in order to kill with impunity, and reflects on the re-emergence of terrorism after 9/11.
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This program profiles cases of Iranian-sponsored terrorism via the Hezbollah and the PLO as well as Argentina's dirty war, when the government used terror tactics against its own people. U.S.-backed insurgency in Nicaragua via the Contras is also analyzed. Joseph Kennedy II; Duane Clarridge, former chief of the CIA's Latin American division; and Bayardo Izaba, of the Nicaraguan Center for Human Rights, are spotlighted, as are retired General Martin...
19) Inside ISIS
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ISIS have become a dynamic presence online. By looking at one of their campaign videos designed to disseminate their radical manifesto, this report offers a chilling insight into a markedly 21st century insurgency.
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In 1992, white South African policeman Brian Mitchell was jailed for life on eleven counts of murder. Under new government amnesty policies designed to unite the torn nation, he is now free. Recently, he returned to the scene of his crimes. Using Bosnia, Chile, Mozambique, and South Africa as examples, this program probes whether national reconciliation can be purchased at the price of justice for victims of political terror. It asks whether national...