- Part 3 - The Shadows In The Cave
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- The Power of Nightmares assesses whether the threat from
a hidden and organised terrorist network is an illusion. In the concluding
part of the series, the programme explains how the illusion was created
and who benefits from it.
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- In the wake of the shock and panic created by the devastating
attack on the World Trade Center on 11 September, 2001, the neo-conservatives
reconstructed the radical Islamists in the image of their last evil enemy,
the Soviet Union - a sinister web of terror run from the centre by Osama
Bin Laden in his lair in Afghanistan.
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- There are dangerous and fanatical individuals and groups
around the world who have been inspired by extreme Islamist ideas, and
who will use the techniques of mass terror - the attacks on America and
Madrid make this only too clear.
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- But the nightmare vision of a uniquely powerful hidden
organisation waiting to strike our societies is an illusion.
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- Wherever one looks for this al-Qaeda organisation, from
the mountains of Afghanistan to the "sleeper cells" in America,
the British and Americans are chasing a phantom enemy.
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- But the reason that no-one questions the illusion is
because this nightmare enemy gives so many groups new power and influence
in a cynical age - and not just politicians.
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- Those with the darkest imaginations have now become the
most powerful.
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- In part one, the programme looked at the origins of the
neo-conservatives and the radical Islamists in the 1950s.
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- The second part of the series examined how the radical
Islamists and neo-conservatives came together to defeat the Soviet Union
in Afghanistan.
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- Information Clearing House
- 1-1-5
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- This is a BBC Production you must watch!
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- The Shadows In The Cave
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- The Power of Nightmares assesses whether the threat from
a hidden and organised terrorist network is an illusion. In the concluding
part of the series, the programme explains how the illusion was created
and who benefits from it.
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- This is a must watch documentary - Broadcast 11/03/04
BBC 2 - Written and produced by Adam Curtis
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