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What Killed Arafat?
This 50-minute film was the result of a nine month long cold case investigation into the suspicious death of Yasser Arafat, Palestine's iconic, revolutionary leader. After obtaining Arafat's entire original medical files, Al Jazeera's Investigative Unit, led by producer and reporter Clayton Swisher, crossed continents to track down and interview the French, Jordanian, Egyptian, and Palestinian doctors who had worked to save Arafat's life. Part I of "What Killed Arafat?" was able to easily shatter popular myths about what caused Arafat's precipitous decline from the onset of his illness on October 12, 2004 until his death on November 11th. Testimony from Arafat's doctors conclusively ruled out liver cirrhosis, cancer, even rumors of HIV. The scientific, evidence-based discoveries made in the Part II result from the work performed by a team of forensic pathologists, toxicologists, and radiation physicists from the University Center for Legal Medicine and Institute for Radiation Physics in Lausanne, Switzerland. Working without payment, they agreed to run a battery of sophisticated tests on a large gym bag containing Arafat’s last personal effects. The scientists discovered significant levels of reactor-made Polonium 210 contaminating areas of Arafat's personal effects that came into contact with his biological fluids. When the final results came back in late June, Al Jazeera hosted Mrs. Arafat in Doha to watch the Swiss explain the results on set. Upon witnessing their testimony, Ms. Arafat made a resolute, unanticipated surprise announcement, calling on the Palestinian Authority to exhume her husband's body for testing. Yasser Arafat’s body was exhumed on November 27, 2012 so that the final samples could be retrieved. Whether the causes of Arafat's death are determined to be natural, inconclusive—or even murder—suffice it to say that Al Jazeera’s "What Killed Arafat?" and the resulting investigations and exhumation will have inched the world closer to understanding what did not, and possibly for the first time, what did claim the life of this historic and controversial personality.
Tags: Science; death; biology; investigation; exhumation; testing
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The Al Jazeera Effect
"Analysis of use of new media in democratization efforts and use of these media by terrorist organizations."
Tags: Al Jazeera; terrorism; terrorist; media; technology; internet; television;
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The Mastermind
Close on the heels of Khalid Shaikh Mohammad's capture in Pakistan, CBS investigate's his larger role in world terrorism, particularly against USA. Specifically, CBS traces how Mohammad had directed his nephew, Ramzi Yousef, in the first WTC bombing in 1993. Further, Mohammad was not only the cheif architect of the failed American Airlines hijacking attempt in Phillipines, but also blending these two plans to make a blue print for the 9/11 attacks. The article also focuses on a raw copy of the audiotape with the voice of Ramzi bin al Shibh, who was Mohammad Atta's roommate in Hamburg, Germany.
Tags: Al-Jazeera; World Trade Center; Yosri Fouda; Karachi; Pakistan; Osama Bin Laden
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Tales of the tyrant
In this long piece Bowden offers an in-depth profile of Saddam Hussein. He reveals the kind of books -Mario Puzo's 'The Godfather' series- and films -'The day of the Jackal'- he enjoys. The report is structured in four parts that analyze Hussein's personality -with particular attention to his ambition and cruelty- and goals. Interesting details about the now former leader of Iraq are revealed, some better known than others, such as the fact he never sleeps in the same place, or that he "has a particular passion for Arabic history and military history."
Tags: Saddam Hussein; Baghdad; al Jazeera; Persian Gulf War; Tikrit; Six-Day War; Revolutionary Command Council; Baath Party; Mesopotamia
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The Plot
A CBS News 60 Minutes II report reveals that the mastermind of the September 11 attacks was not Osama bin Laden, but an Al Qaeda terrorist who had struck America before: Khalid Shaikh Mohammed. Mohammed directed his nephew in the World Trade Center bombing in 1993 and was behind the failed attempt to hijack 11 American airliners in the Philippines and crash them into the Pacific. "In the end, Mohammed simply combined the '93 World Trade Center attack with the failed plan in the Philippines and came up with the blueprint for September 11th.
Tags: TAPE; TRANSCRIPT; World Trade Center attacks; September 11th; 9-11; terrorism; terrorists; Osama bin Laden; Khalid Shaikh Mohammed; Al Qaeda; Bin al Shibh; Mohammed Atta; al Jazeera; CIA; FBI