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FRONTLINE; Trail Of A Terrorist
10/25/2001
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- Series
- FRONTLINE
- Program
- Trail Of A Terrorist
- Program Number
2004 K1
- Series Description
Premiered January 1983 Since January 1983, FRONTLINE has served as American public television's - PBS - flagship public affairs series. Hailed upon its television broadcast debut as "the last best hope for broadcast documentaries," FRONTLINE's stature over 23 years is reaffirmed each week through incisive documentaries covering the scope and complexity of the human experience. Series release date: 1/1983
- Program Description
On December 14, 1999, Ahmed Ressam was detained at the U.S./Canadian border when an alert customs agent became suspicious of Ressam’s hesitant answers to her questions. When the trunk of his car was opened, agents discovered a powerful bomb and a plot for a millennium attack on America. Ressam said nothing at his trial but, facing 130 years in prison, decided to testify against an accomplice. His chilling testimony reveals his motives, his methods, and his connection to an Algerian terrorist group that had already carried out bombings in Europe. Ressam described his training at the Osama bin Laden camps in Afghanistan, where he became skilled in urban warfare, sabotage, and covert operations. With access to Ressam’s testimony, police files, and officials in the U.S., Canada, and France, correspondent Terence McKenna follows the trail of a terrorist.
- Duration
00:56:46
- Asset Type
Broadcast program
- Media Type
Video
- Genres
- Documentary
- Topics
- Public Affairs
- News
- Citation
- Chicago: “FRONTLINE; Trail Of A Terrorist,” 10/25/2001, GBH Archives, accessed July 27, 2024, http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_D38F7D8C8837417A8EBFCACDE52933D9.
- MLA: “FRONTLINE; Trail Of A Terrorist.” 10/25/2001. GBH Archives. Web. July 27, 2024. <http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_D38F7D8C8837417A8EBFCACDE52933D9>.
- APA: FRONTLINE; Trail Of A Terrorist. Boston, MA: GBH Archives. Retrieved from http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_D38F7D8C8837417A8EBFCACDE52933D9