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"Fort Hood Fallout"
A group of investigative reporters for The Dallas Morning News share exclusive, in-depth stories following the deadly attack at Fort Hood. They reveal that Nidal Malik Hasan had been sending money abroad and communicating with a radical imam who was encouraging "Muslims to wage jihad."
Tags: Nidal Malik Hasan; jihad; Muslim; shooting; imam; Anwar al-Awlaki; Islam; Killeen
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The Jihadi Trainer
Islamic militant Abu Omar was the trainer of the foreign fighters from the Arab World, Europe and North Africa to kill American troops in Iraq. The report explains his knowledge of building armor-piercing roadside bombs and use of the Internet to reach a larger audience.
Tags: Abu Musab al-Zaraqwi; jihad; Al Qeada;
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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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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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Inside the war on terrorism
The series looks at how Washington has waged war against al Qaeda since 9/11 by paying over $20 million to friendly Muslim security services. The stories also explore the roots of the global jihad and the links between organized crime and terrorism.
Tags: terrorism; Islam; September 11; 2001; homeland security
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Sheik Gilani
60 Minutes' Crile interviews Sheik Mubarak Gilani, a spiritual leader for a network of Islamic communities in the United States and "the Muslim cleric who Daniel Pearl died trying to interview." Crile asks the question that Pearl intended to ask - whether Gilani is connected to the alleged shoe bomber Richard Reid. Gilani says he does not know Reid; disapproves of some of what Osama bin Laden is doing; and that America is threatened by evil forces that control the minds of human beings.
Tags: Muslims; jihad; Khalid Khawaja; fundamentalists; Sept. 11; radical Islam; kidnapping; bombing; intelligence; TAPE; TRANSCRIPT
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Chicago FBI: The failure of operation Vulgar Betrayal
ABC reports on the shutdown of a 1997 intelligence operation that could have revealed criminal connections leading to Sept. 11. Operation Vulgar Betrayal, which investigated the money trail of a suspected terrorist cell in Chicago, found members of the cell were connected to Osama bin Laden. Just a few months after the bombings of American embassies in Africa it became clear that the FBI headquarters and the Justice Department did not support the operation.
Tags: Muslims; Islam; jihad; anti-terrorism; security; safety; TAPE; TRANSCRIPT
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A call for "Holy War"
Since 1991, an Arabic magazine called "Assarat Al Mustaqeem" started publishing in Pittsburgh, distributing over 2,000 copies in the United States and some all over the world. The reporters uncovered ties between the magazine and other influential radical Muslim groups, and discovered the magazine to contain militant articles, advocating jihad and the killing of Jews.
Tags: jihad; terrorism; propaganda; militant Muslim; Islam
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The Making of John Walker Lindh
Time Magazine tells the life story of the American Taliban John Walker Lindh, who grew up as a "quiet, bright young boy" from the suburbs. In Oct. 2002 Lindh was set to be sentenced to a maximum of 20 years in prison on terror charges. "For once, we could see why he would change the liberal comforts of Marin County, California, for the simplified, un-airconditioned means by which he lived in Afghanistan," states the contest entry questionnaire.
Tags: Muslims; Islam; jihad; holy war; Pakistan; Osama bin Ladin; al Qaida
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Made in the U.S.A.
Kaplan sheds light on the underground jihad movement in America. The story reveals that up to 2,000 Americans have fought in holy wars around the world - Afghanistan, the Balkans, Kashmir and Chechnya - since the early 1990s. "Most of the jihadists are Arab Americans, but other are as diverse as America itself, and include native-born whites, blacks, and at least one Puerto-Rican," according to the contest questionnaire.
Tags: jihad; islam; John Walker Lindh; Osama bin Laden; al Qaeda; jihadists; FBI; terrorist; terrorism; Afghanistan; Pakistan; Muslim