Modern Conflicts – War On Terror

The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 resulted in the swift and total collapse of the Twin Towers but the Pentagon, which suffered the same kind of blow, stood fast. The world’s leading forensic engineers investigate why the results were so drastically different for each building.

On October 12, 2000, the USS Cole sailed into a Yemenese harbour to refuel even though intelligence was reporting that Al Qaeda was planning attacks on ships. This intense documentary begins with the terrorist cell and finishes with the suicide bombing on the Cole. Hear the stories of heroism that saved the ship and crew from complete destruction.

This documentary will explore the varied resources the U.S. is dedicating to finding Osama, from troops on the ground to high-tech intelligence techniques. It will also look at the ways that Al Qaeda has grown since 9/11 and assess the prospects for success in bringing its ringleader to justice.

At 9.02am, an explosion ripped into the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. In three seconds, almost half of the nine story building was reduced to rubble. 168 people died, including 17 children who were in the building’s daycare centre. This program investigates what really happened on that fateful day.

On September 1st 2004, in the small town if Belsan in the Russian republic of Ossetia, a school was seized by a group of terrorists predominantly from the neighbouring republics of Chechnya and Ingusbetia. This program tells the real story behind the transformation of Beslan from small-town anonymity to worldwide notoriety?

Part 2 of the Chechen Rebels: Beslan, sees the drama continue as we try to find out the real story behind the transformation of Beslan from small-town anonymity to worldwide notoriety?