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Breaching America
"This series examined the veracity of one of the most unsubstantiated, tenacious and politically consequential claims of 2007 used to justify hard-line immigration reform legislation: that Islamic terrorists were routinely crossing American borders alongside benevolent Mexican illegal laborers."
Tags: immigration reform; Islamic terrorists; border crossing; illegal immigrants;
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The Purge
"Christians in Iraq are being hunted, murdered, and driven from their homes in a wave of ethnic cleansing perhaps more brutal than any in the community's 2,000-year history. Before the U.S. invasion, Iraq was home to more than a million Christians- a small but thriving minority, which Saddam Hussein protected. Under the American occupation, Iraq's Christian community, one of the oldest in the world, has been driven towards extinction."
Tags: Iraq; ethnic; religion; Christianity; military; Islam; militants; Middle East
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The No-Fly List
CBS News reported that the No-Fly List, compiled after 9/11 to "prevent an Islamic terrorist who's associated with al-Queda from getting on a plane" is "incomplete, inaccurate, outdated, and a source of aggravation to thousands of innocent Americans." The version available to airport screeners is "sanitized of the most sensitive information", because "intelligence agencies that supply the names don't want them circulated to airport employees in foreign countries for fear that they could end up in the hands of terrorists." Before 9/11 the list had 16 names on it; after 9/11, the list grew to include 44 thousand names, not including an additional 75 thousand names on the additional security screening list. Now there's another list: names of people who have shouldn't be on the first list. You have to apply to get on that list. The list airport screeners see has no birth dates or physical descriptions. For the past three years, the TSA has spent about 144 million dollars to develop a program called Secure Flight-- it hasn't been implemented yet.
Tags: Department of Homeland Security; anti-war activists; Iraq; No-Fly List; wiretaps; FBI; Excel; heads-of-state; Transportation Security Administration; TSA; data dump; National Security News Service; Joe Trento; NSA; Zaccarias Moussaoui; FBI Terrorist's Screening Center; Donna Bucella; Dawud Salahuddin; David Belfield; Kip Hawley; Cathy Berrick; General Accounting Office; Secure Flight
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Because They Hate: A Survivor of Islamic Terror Warns America
Brigitte Gabriel is a former news anchor in the Middle East who is now based in Washington, D.C. The founder of American Congress For Truth, Gabriel writes this book as a cautionary tale, using her own experiences to make the point that radical Islam groups will continue to be a threat to the United States and its people.
Tags: Terrorism; Islam; radical Islam; religious extremists; Sept. 11, 2001; political correctness; Middle East
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Hearts, Minds and Dollars: In an Unseen Front in the War on Terrorism, America is Spending Millions...To Change the Very Face of Islam
This investigation revealed that the Bush Administration has approved a classified strategy to influence the future of Islam, and that conflicts within the Muslim faith are now considered a matter of "national security" to the United States. In at least two dozen countries, the U.S. government is funding Muslim imams, Islamic radio and TV shows, Muslim think tanks, political workshops and other programs that promote moderate Islam ideas.
Tags: religion; government; international affairs; terrorism; 9/11; Koran; mosques; think tanks; non-profits
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Suspicion in the Ranks
This is the story of a young man in the army who served as an Islamic chaplain during the time of September 11th. He set out trying to answer questions about Islam, but eventually his superiors became suspicious of him and he got caught up in an international investigation accusing him of treason.
Tags: Muslim; Army; soldier; Guantanamo Bay; Islam; chaplain; treason; espionage; traitor; spy; military; 9/11; September 11th; wrongful charges
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Secrets and Lies: bin Laden, Damra and the Birth of Terror in America
This investigation uncovered the strong ties between Fawaz Damra, a seemingly peaceful spiritual leader of Ohio's largest mosque, and Osama bin Laden. The investigators found that before moving to Ohio, Damra headed a radical mosque in Brooklyn, to which the people behind the 1993 World Trade Center bombing belonged. Furthermore, he was directly involved in fund-raising for terrorist "charities." Damra's charity was the predecessor of Al Qaeda, and gave bin Laden a foothold in America.
Tags: homeland security; Palestinian Islamic Jihad; Al Qaeda; WTC; national defense; FBI
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Kingdom on the Brink
Following the kidnapping and beheading of Paul Johnson, CNN investigates terrorist incidents in Saudi Arabia. By interviewing a number of different Saudis, from working class to the royal family, this investigation tells the story through the eyes of the people who live it. Despite language and security difficulties, the story looks at the changing world of the Saudis, Islam and how the royal family struggles to crack down on al Qaeda militants.
Tags: Saudi Arabia; Osama bin Laden; military; al Quaeda; Saudi royal family; Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Alsaud; Islam; September 11
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The Struggle Within Islam
Powell draws from all over the Islamic world for this story. It profiles the family of Mohammed Shakr, whose son is edging toward fundamentalism and jihad. Powell takes a look at the "civil war" that has raged within Islam for years, intesifying since 9/11. Powell finds that "the number of Muslims expounding radical beliefs is clearly growing; the global war on terrorism has fueled perceptions that Islam is under attack; and America's war in Iraq has made it more difficult for patient voices inside Islamic states to be heard."
Tags: Islam; Jihad; Muslim; Sunni; Shiite; Osama bin Laden; 9/11
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The Baghdad Files
Edward Pound found that the current Iraqi insurgency was planned long before the Saddam Hussein regime collapsed. These stories stripped away the different faces of the insurgency and exposed heavy Iranian influences behind the many attacks on Americans, their allies and Iraqi citizens. Pound uncovered documents later called the "Baghdad files" that revealed the extent to which Iran was involved in the insurgency in Iraq.
Tags: Terrorism; Iraq; Saddam Hussein; Iran; Islamic Fundamentalism; Middle East; Insurgency in Iraq; Baghdad Files; Baghdad; Shiites; Paul Bremer