International Terrorism Since 1945

Season 1

26 episodes · Jan 5, 2009

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  • S1E1

    Early Israeli Terrorism

    Jan 5, 2009

    On 22 July 1946, a Zionist group Irgun, bombed the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, British Mandate of Palestine, killing 91 people.

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  • S1E2

    The Al-Qaeda Menace

    Jan 5, 2009

    On 11 September 2001, international Islamist group Al-Qaeda hijacked four passenger planes, and deliberately flew two of them into the World Trade Center, one into The Pentagon, and crashed the other in a field in Pennsylvania, killing 2,998 people.

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  • S1E3

    The IRA

    Jan 6, 2009

    A brief history of Irish Republican terrorism.

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  • S1E4

    Fatah/Hamas

    Jan 6, 2009

    Palestinian terrorism, including events in Munich, in September 1972, when militant group Black September kidnapped and murdered 11 Israeli sportspeople.

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  • S1E5

    PLO

    Jan 7, 2009

    The hijacking of three passenger planes, in September 1970, by the PLO, accompanied by demands for the release of imprisoned Palestinians.

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  • S1E6

    ETA, Spain

    Jan 7, 200930m

    The murder of Luis Carrero Blanco. On 20 December 1973, the Prime Minister of Spain was assassinated with a car bomb, by communist group ETA.

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  • S1E7

    The Red Brigades

    Jan 8, 2009

    Formed in 1970, the Brigate Rosse (Red Brigades) sought to create a revolutionary state through armed struggle and to separate Italy from the Western Alliance (NATO). The Red Brigades’ main aim was the overthrow of the Italian government, the weakening of NATO and the creation of a Marxist state.

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  • S1E8

    The Baader-Meinhof Gang

    Jan 8, 2009

    Terrorist acts committed by far-left group Baader Meinhof Gang / Red Army Faction in Germany in the 1970s and 1980s.

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  • S1E9

    EOKA

    Jan 9, 2009

    EOKA's attacks on police stations, government offices and military installations on Cyprus in the 1950s.

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  • S1E10

    Nasser and Egyptian Terrorism

    Jan 10, 2009

    The history of Egyptian terrorism, including the 17 November 1997, murder of 59 foreign tourists, three police officers and a tour guide by Egyptian group al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya.

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  • S1E11

    Colonel Gaddafi and Libya

    Jan 12, 2009

    On 21 December 1988, Libya bombed transatlantic Pan Am flight 103 over the small Scottish town of Lockerbie.

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  • S1E12

    Algeria and the OAS

    Jan 12, 2009

    The group OAS committed a series of attacks, killing hundreds, in an attempt to keep Algeria governed by France.

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  • S1E13

    The SLA and Patty Hearst

    Jan 13, 2009

    In 1974, left-wing group the Symbionese Liberation Army kidnapped heiress Patty Hearst, exerting pressure on her to make them join in their violent activities.

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  • S1E14

    The Weathermen

    Jan 13, 2009

    Communist group The Weathermen carried out a series of bombings in the United States from 1969 - 1977.

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  • S1E15

    The Oklahoma Bomber

    Jan 14, 2009

    On 19 April 1995, Timothy McVeigh bombed the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people.

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  • S1E16

    The Ku Klux Klan

    Jan 14, 2009

    A history of attacks carried out by white, right-wing Christian group KKK.

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  • S1E17

    Japanese Sarin Cult

    Jan 15, 2009

    The motives behind the March 15, 2005 gas attacks on the Tokyo subway system, committed by the new religious group Aum Shinrikyo - who aimed to destabilise the Japanese government.

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  • S1E18

    The Mahdi Army

    Jan 15, 2009

    The motives behind actions taken by the Mahdi Army, who rose to arms in Iraq after the deposition of Saddam Hussein, in reaction to the US Military banning a Shia newspaper

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  • S1E19

    Che Guevara

    Jan 16, 2009

    The motives, morals and methods of Che Guevara who in his relatively short life managed to inspire a generation of Cuban youths into rebellion against authority.

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  • S1E20

    Fidel Castro

    Jan 16, 2009

    The story behind the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, which saw Cuban revolutionary Fidel Castro and Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev bring the world to the brink of nuclear war.

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  • S1E21

    Somali Warlords

    Jan 19, 2009

    America's disastrous attempt to capture two notorious Somali terrorists in 1993. Last in the series.

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  • S1E22

    The Taliban

    Jan 19, 2009

    The global war against the Taliban, who instigated a brutal authoritarian regime in Afghanistan.

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  • S1E23

    The Tamil Tigers

    Jan 20, 2009

    The violent campaign of the Sri Lankan terrorist group the Tamil Tigers, which started in the 1980s and has resulted in the deaths of almost 60,000 people.

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  • S1E24

    Chechen Extremism

    The Chechen rebel's who seized a theatre in Moscow and took 800 people hostage in 2002.

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  • S1E25

    The Moluccan Separatists

    The hijacking of a Dutch train by South Moluccan Separatists in 1977, who demanded independence for their homeland.

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  • S1E26

    The Mau Mau

    The Mau Mau's fight for Kenya's independence from Britain, who are a violent terrorist group founded in the 1950s.

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