Season 1
26 episodes · Jan 5, 2009
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- S1E1
Early Israeli Terrorism
Jan 5, 2009On 22 July 1946, a Zionist group Irgun, bombed the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, British Mandate of Palestine, killing 91 people.
- S1E2
The Al-Qaeda Menace
Jan 5, 2009On 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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Fatah/Hamas
Jan 6, 2009Palestinian terrorism, including events in Munich, in September 1972, when militant group Black September kidnapped and murdered 11 Israeli sportspeople.
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PLO
Jan 7, 2009The hijacking of three passenger planes, in September 1970, by the PLO, accompanied by demands for the release of imprisoned Palestinians.
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ETA, Spain
Jan 7, 200930mThe 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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The Red Brigades
Jan 8, 2009Formed 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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The Baader-Meinhof Gang
Jan 8, 2009Terrorist acts committed by far-left group Baader Meinhof Gang / Red Army Faction in Germany in the 1970s and 1980s.
- S1E9
EOKA
Jan 9, 2009EOKA's attacks on police stations, government offices and military installations on Cyprus in the 1950s.
- S1E10
Nasser and Egyptian Terrorism
Jan 10, 2009The 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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Colonel Gaddafi and Libya
Jan 12, 2009On 21 December 1988, Libya bombed transatlantic Pan Am flight 103 over the small Scottish town of Lockerbie.
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Algeria and the OAS
Jan 12, 2009The group OAS committed a series of attacks, killing hundreds, in an attempt to keep Algeria governed by France.
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The SLA and Patty Hearst
Jan 13, 2009In 1974, left-wing group the Symbionese Liberation Army kidnapped heiress Patty Hearst, exerting pressure on her to make them join in their violent activities.
- S1E14
The Weathermen
Jan 13, 2009Communist group The Weathermen carried out a series of bombings in the United States from 1969 - 1977.
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The Oklahoma Bomber
Jan 14, 2009On 19 April 1995, Timothy McVeigh bombed the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people.
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The Ku Klux Klan
Jan 14, 2009A history of attacks carried out by white, right-wing Christian group KKK.
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Japanese Sarin Cult
Jan 15, 2009The 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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The Mahdi Army
Jan 15, 2009The 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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Che Guevara
Jan 16, 2009The 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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Fidel Castro
Jan 16, 2009The 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.
- S1E21
Somali Warlords
Jan 19, 2009America's disastrous attempt to capture two notorious Somali terrorists in 1993. Last in the series.
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The Taliban
Jan 19, 2009The global war against the Taliban, who instigated a brutal authoritarian regime in Afghanistan.
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The Tamil Tigers
Jan 20, 2009The 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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Chechen Extremism
The Chechen rebel's who seized a theatre in Moscow and took 800 people hostage in 2002.
- S1E25
The Moluccan Separatists
The hijacking of a Dutch train by South Moluccan Separatists in 1977, who demanded independence for their homeland.
- 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.