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Suicide By Cop
Documenting the story of how a veteran from Iraq, suffering from severe post-traumatic stress disorder, terrorizes a store full of customers and then proceeds to lead police from four counties on a high-speed car chase across North Dakota.
Tags: veteran; ptsd; iraq; hostage; mental breakdown
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Dirty Bombs
"Radioactive devices are stolen from cars, disappear from construction sites, fall off trucks and generally go astray at a startling pace. A computer database compiled by The Canadian Press showed how dozens of these tools - from a darkroom truck in northern British Columbia to a device used for molecular separation in Montreal - have gone missing in the last five years. The items vanished despite federal disaster planning reports that warn terrorists could wreak multimillion-dollar havoc if a nuclear gauge was used to build a crude 'dirty bomb.'"
Tags: radioactive; dirty bomb; bioterrorism; terrorism
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Reporting Series on Al Qaeda: Unmasking the Insurgents, Jihad Express, Women of Al Qaeda
This extensive investigation by the Newsweek staff and their foreign correspondents uncovers the evolution of Al Qaeda in Iraq. The series includes a closer look at the world's most dangerous terrorist organization's new followers including Europe-born insurgents and female suicide bombers. The series also looks at the first elections in Iraq and intelligence about Zarqawi.
Tags: al Qaeda; Iraq; War on Terrorism; insurgents; jihad; Osama bin Laden; elections; Zarqawi; CAR
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Pauper Parks
This investigation showed how, even though the Bush administration claims an increase in national park funding, many parks are actually seeing budget cuts. The reason for this discrepancy is that, while most of the parks are receiving less money, about one quarter of all national parks are receiving extra funds to protect against terrorist attacks. Those parks are "national icon" parks like the Statue of Liberty and the Gateway Arch in St. Louis.
Tags: national parks; nature; icons; terrorism; homeland security; conservation
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From Milan to Madrid to Montreal: the world wide web of terror
This radio documentary examines the link between the Al Qaeda terrorist cells in Europe and Canada. It reveals that the FBI's initial portrayal of Al Qaeda, as a scattering of independent cells was completely false. The reporters found that the key terrorists known in Canada had direct connections to European members of Al Qaeda.
Tags: AUDIO TAPE; TRANSCRIPT; Al Qaeda; terrorism; Canada; intelligence; Federal Bureau of Investigation; FBI; terrorism suspects; CAR
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Stealth Spin Doctor
The Weekly Planet investigates freelance journalist Steven Emerson's inaccuracies in his reporting on terrorism and his "persistently anti-Arab perspective." The newspaper claims Emerson manipulates the media -- and his stories on terrorism -- "to maintain his anti-Muslim crusade."
Tags: CAR journalism ethics terrorism freelance reporting reporter objectivity conflict of interest
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Crimes in the Name of the Environment
This ten-month investigation into "eco-terrorism" reveals millions of dollars in damage and threats to human life in the American West resulting from two decades of extremist acts ostensibly committed in the name of saving the environment. The report establishes a correlation between environmentalists and animal rights activists, previously considered two separate camps.
Tags: CAR terrorism; violence; sabotage; Pacific Northwest; arson; Vail; lynx; endangered species; John Zerzan; World Trade Organization; PETA; Animal Liberation Front; Earth Liberation Front; Fur Commission USA
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Neal Horsley and the Future of the Armed Abortion Conflict
Esquire Magazine tells the story of Neal Horsley, "the righteous man with the hit list rocks on the front porch of his glass house... his Web site, which is called The Nuremberg Files: Visualize the Abortionists on Trial. On the Web site he collects the names, addresses, and photos of hundreds of doctors across America who perform abortions. Also supplied are pictures of the doctors' houses and cars, license-plate numbers, names and dates of birth of their children, churches and pastors and rabbis, social-activity information and career profiles, as in "Has been butchering babies for sixteen years." Neal smiles broadly and bellows, 'I would not want to be in the business of abortin' babies in the United States of America today!'"
Tags: Domestic terrorism
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The Cop, the Gangster and the Beauty Queen DRUG SMUGGLING
A car crash last November revealed unsavory ties between the Turkish government, the country's neofascist right and the CIA. In These Times investigates how Grey Wolves, a neo-fascist terrorist group that has stalked Turkey since the late' 60s, helped smuggle heroin from Turkey to North America. The CIA tolerated Turkish drug and weapons trading in the hopes of encouraging pan-Turkish militants to incite anti-Soviet passions among Muslim Turkic minorities in the U.S.S.R. (April 28, 1997)
Tags: Terrorism International arms trade Abdullah Catli "Pizza connection"
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The Oklahoma City Bombing: Who Bombed the Murrah Federal Building
The Denver Post investigates the Oklahoma City bombing and finds that the plot involved the assistance of at least one person who has not been charged in the case. The story looks at several details the FBI ignored in their investigation of the case.
Tags: Wilmsen Eddy CAR The Oklahoma City bombing: who bombed the Murrah Federal building; Contest entry; John Doe No. 2 Timothy McVeigh; Michael Fortier; domestic terrorism