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Duration: 11:00 minutes Upload Time: 2007-06-18 13:54:50 User: jihadlovestoyota :::: Favorites :::: Top Videos of Day |
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power nightmares bbc documentary neocons cia islamists war terror cheney qaeda myth zawahiri revolution islamic jihad
Description: The final episode addresses the actual rise of al-Qaeda. Curtis argues that after their failed revolutions bin Laden and Zawahiri had little or no popular support, let alone a serious complex organization of terrorists, and were dependent upon independent operatives to carry out their new call for jihad. The film instead shows the American government wanting to prosecute bin Laden in absentia for the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings, and needing to prove him to be the head of a criminal organization to do so. They find a former associate of bin Laden, Jamal al-Fadl, and pay him to testify that bin Laden was the head of a massive terrorist organization called "al-Qaeda." With the September 11th attacks, Neo-Conservatives in the new Republican government of George W. Bush use this created concept of an organization to justify another crusade against a new evil enemy, leading to the launch of the War on Terrorism. After the American invasion of Afghanistan fails to uproot the alleged terrorist network, the Neo-Conservatives focus inwards, searching unsuccessfully for terrorist "sleeper cells" in America. They then extend the war on "terror" to a war against general perceived evils with the invasion of Iraq in 2003. The ideas and tactics also spread to the United Kingdom where Tony Blair uses the threat of terrorism to give him a new moral authority. The repercussions of the Neo-Conservative strategy are also explored with an investigation of indefinitely-detained terrorist suspects in Guantanamo Bay, many alledgedly taken on the word of the anti-Taliban Northern Alliance without actual investigation on the part of the American military, and other forms of "preemption" against non-existent and unlikely threats made simply on the grounds that the parties involved could later become a threat. Curtis also makes a specific attempt to debunk fears of a dirty bomb attack, and concludes by reassuring viewers that politicians will eventually have to admit that their claims of threats are void of reality. The Power of Nightmares: The Rise of the Politics of Fear is a BBC documentary film series, written and produced by Adam Curtis. |
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| ChineseBrit ::: Favorites 2007-12-08 20:12:53 sigh...politics is politics __________________________________________________ | |
| metalebd ::: Favorites 2007-11-11 18:49:58 yeah, like when condi said that iraq was not capable of posing a threat to its neighbours a little less than a year before they magically became capable of attacking and destroying america AND its allies. Voters have short memories. __________________________________________________ | |
| PeaceMilitant ::: Favorites 2007-10-09 19:50:39 A truly brilliant documentary. It's startling the difference's between Bush's opinion about foreign intervention in 2000 compared to now. __________________________________________________ | |
| 3und ::: Favorites 2007-08-09 10:35:54 This is the No.1 injustice and crime to the people of the world in the 21st century. Unlike in the previous one, US has become one of the perpetrator this time. Yes, history will give its verdict. __________________________________________________ | |
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