The Rise of the Politics of Fear
本节目将探讨一个在政治、安全和传媒领域广泛传播却不受质疑的谣言：「我们被一个隐秘的有组织恐怖主义网络所威胁」。故事的中心围绕着美国新保守主义和极端伊斯兰主义两派。两者的出现皆源于建立美好世界的理想的失败。他们都改变了世界，但改变却非如他们预期一样。他们共同创造了如今的噩梦假象：一个有组织的恐怖网络。
噩梦的力量：恐惧政治的崛起 (季节 1)
Baby It's Cold Outside 8.7
播出日期: 2004-10-20
运行时间: 60 min
概述: In the past our politicians offered us dreams of a better world. Now they promise to protect us from nightmares. The most frightening of these is the threat of an international terror network. But just as the dreams were not true, neither are these nightmares. The first part of the series explains the origins of Islamism and Neo-Conservatism.
The Phantom Victory 0.0
播出日期: 2004-10-27
运行时间: 60 min
概述: Islamist factions, rapidly falling under the more radical influence of Zawahiri and his rich Saudi acolyte Osama bin Laden, join the Neo-Conservative-influenced Reagan Administration to combat the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan. They are successful in repulsing the Soviet armies and, when the Eastern Bloc begins to collapse in the late 1980s, both groups believe they were the primary architect of the "Evil Empire's" defeat and thus have the power to carry out their revolutions in their homelands. Curtis instead argues that the Soviets were on their last legs and were doomed to collapse without intervention.
The Shadows in the Cave 0.0
播出日期: 2004-11-03
运行时间: 60 min
概述: Curtis argues that, after their failed revolutions, bin Laden and Zawahiri had little or no popular support, let alone a serious complex organisation of terrorists, and were dependent upon independent operatives to carry out their new call for jihad. The film instead shows the United States 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 organisation 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 organisation 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 organisation to justify another crusade against a new evil enemy, leading to the launch of the War on Terrorism.
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