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The Fort Hood Shootings
The investigation showcases the unraveling of the Fort Hood massacre. It chronicles the repeated failure of U.S. intelligence to take substantive action against the assailant, Nidal Hasan, and the bureaucratic decisions that ultimately snowballed into a tragedy.
Tags: Anwar Awalki; Fort Hood; Brian Ross; military; massacre; shooting; jihad; Nidal Hasan; terror; Al Qaeda; Yemeni; bureaucracy; Texas; army base; psychiatrist;
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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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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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Trail of Terror: Jihad in Iraq
This story examines the insurgency in Iraq from multiple perspectives. It focuses solely on foreign fighters coming into Iraq to join Abu Musab Zarqawi's forces, but the investigation follows insurgents coming in from Europe, Lebanon, Syria and America. The story explores these fighters' motives and reveals that their convictions are driven by U.S. policy and Muslim solidarity rather than hatred of freedom or socioeconomic factors. It includes interviews with experts, jihadis and their family members, and military commanders.
Tags: terrorism; insurgency; Iraq; Zarqawi; jihad; suicide bombing; U.S. military; radicals
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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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Meet the new jihad
These three stories explore the Iraqi insurgency and the fighting conditions U.S. forces faced. "Meet the new jihad" explains the transformation of the Iraqi insurgency from a guerilla campaign led by former members of the Baathist regime to an international jihadist movement.. "Enemy with many faces" reveals the divisions with the insurgency's disparate members. "Into the hot zone" follows U.S. soldiers as they engage in brutal urban combat.
Tags: Iraq; jihad; insurgency; Abu Musab al-Zarqawi; war
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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 Iraqi Resistance: Ordinary Warriors
Bingham spent ten months in Baghdad, interviewing fifteen active members in the resistance against US and coalition forces in Iraq. She finds the reasons that motivate these people to fight back -- "they're people fighting for their country and their faith. And they will not relinquish that fight until they view themselves as independent of external control."
Tags: Jihad; Shia; Sunni; Ba'ath party; Al Qaeda
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Unclear Danger: Inside the Lackawanna terror case
In the spring of 2001, seven young Yemeni-American from Lackawanna, New York went to Afghanistan to train for Jihad. What followed is one of the most intense and high profile terrorism cases since Sept. 11. The story offers the perfect backdrop for a story about how terrorist cases are pursued in the wake of the Patriot Act.
Tags: jihad; al qaeda; buffalo; sleeper cell; terrorist; bombing; yemen