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The Best Episodes of CNN Special Investigations Unit Season 2007

Every episode of CNN Special Investigations Unit Season 2007 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of CNN Special Investigations Unit Season 2007!

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    CNN Special Investigations Unit Season 2007 Episode 1 - The War Within
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    #1 - The War Within

    S2007:E1

    Christiane Amanpour examines Muslim extremism in the U.K. Included: the alienation many Muslim youths experience in Western societies.

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  2. CNN Special Investigations Unit Season 2007 Episode 2 - The Journalist and the Jihadi
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    #2 - The Journalist and the Jihadi

    S2007:E2

    Christine Amanpour narrates report on the murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, whose investigation of Islamic militants resulted in a fateful meeting with Omar Sheikh in Pakistan in 2002. Included are remarks by Pearl family members; and acquaintances of both men.

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  3. CNN Special Investigations Unit Season 2007 Episode 3 - MLK: Words That Changed a Nation
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    #3 - MLK: Words That Changed a Nation

    S2007:E3

    Soledad O'Brien profiles Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., via interviews with former Atlanta mayor Andrew Young, Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) and activist Dorothy Cotton. Also: how part of King's I Have a Dream speech was ad-libbed; the genesis of his Letter From Birmingham Jail.

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  4. CNN Special Investigations Unit Season 2007 Episode 4 - Ambush at the River of Secrets
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    #4 - Ambush at the River of Secrets

    S2007:E4

    A report on a Jan. 26, 2005 ambush on the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit in Haqlaniyah, Iraq, which resulted in the deaths of four soldiers.

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  5. CNN Special Investigations Unit Season 2007 Episode 5 - Fatal Journey
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    #5 - Fatal Journey

    S2007:E5

    An examination of the March 2, 2007, accident in Atlanta involving a charter bus carrying the Bluffton University baseball team. Seven people died, including the driver and his wife.

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  6. CNN Special Investigations Unit Season 2007 Episode 6 - Death Squads
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    #6 - Death Squads

    S2007:E6

    John Roberts examines the Shia death squads operating in Iraq and their alleged connection to government officials. Included: insights from former Iraqi interior minister Bayan Jabr; L. Paul Bremer III, the former administrator of the Coalition Provisional Authority; and U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Zalmay Khalilzad.

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  7. CNN Special Investigations Unit Season 2007 Episode 7 - Grady's Anatomy
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    #7 - Grady's Anatomy

    S2007:E7

    The world of young doctors is examined at Atlanta's Grady Memorial Hospital, one of the busiest Level 1 trauma centers in the region, through the eyes of four interns and CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta, who is an attending neurosurgeon at the hospital.

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  8. CNN Special Investigations Unit Season 2007 Episode 8 - What Is a Christian? God, Faith and Hard Science
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    #8 - What Is a Christian? God, Faith and Hard Science

    S2007:E8

    A look at the tenets of Christianity and how they apply to science. Included: whether science and religion can coexist. Anderson Cooper hosts.

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  9. CNN Special Investigations Unit Season 2007 Episode 9 - Chasing Life
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    #9 - Chasing Life

    S2007:E9

    Based on Dr. Sanjay Gupta's 2007 book “Chasing Life,” this episode features the CNN chief medical correspondent's look at longevity. Included: the importance of diet and exercise; stem-cell therapy; the aging process.

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  10. CNN Special Investigations Unit Season 2007 Episode 10 - Massacre at Virginia Tech
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    #10 - Massacre at Virginia Tech

    S2007:E10

    Soledad O'Brien anchors an account of the rampage at Virginia Tech that claimed the lives of 32 people, plus the gunman. Included: a minute-by-minute account; how the shooter acquired his weapons.

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  11. CNN Special Investigations Unit Season 2007 Episode 11 - We Were Warned: Edge of Disaster
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    #11 - We Were Warned: Edge of Disaster

    S2007:E11

    Anderson Cooper hosts this look at how prepared the U.S. is to face another Hurricane Katrina-level natural disaster or terrorist attack. Included: “soft” targets in the nation's food supply, port security and power grids; the level of readiness for biological and germ attacks.

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  12. CNN Special Investigations Unit Season 2007 Episode 12 - Month of Mayhem
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    #12 - Month of Mayhem

    S2007:E12

    CNN International anchor Michael Holmes reports on what life is like in Iraq. Included: bombings in markets and at universities; attacks on civilians and military troops.

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  13. CNN Special Investigations Unit Season 2007 Episode 13 - Danger: Poisoned Food
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    #13 - Danger: Poisoned Food

    S2007:E13

    Dr. Sanjay Gupta investigates the safety of the nation's food supply, which the CDC estimates is responsible for causing some 76 million people to become sick every year, with an approximate 325,000 requiring hospitalization and 5,000 dying. Included: an interview with Dr. Robert E. Brackett, the director of the FDA's Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition; the experiences of a family who became ill after eating E. coli-contaminated greens.

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  14. CNN Special Investigations Unit Season 2007 Episode 14 - Battlefield Breakdown
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    #14 - Battlefield Breakdown

    S2007:E14

    John King reports on the unintended consequences of the Iraq War, which include more than 3500 American dead; a cost of some $500 billion; and the fact that two-thirds of the Army's 42 active brigades aren't battle ready. Included: comments from Sen. Jack Reed (D-R.I.); and Stephen and Kay Castner, whose son Stephen died in Iraq.

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  15. CNN Special Investigations Unit Season 2007 Episode 15 - Criminally Insane
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    #15 - Criminally Insane

    S2007:E15

    Soledad O'Brien reports on criminally insane felons and why the warning signs in individuals are sometimes missed. Included are interviews with Lionel Dahmer, serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer's father; and David Kaczynski, brother of the Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski.

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  16. CNN Special Investigations Unit Season 2007 Episode 16 - Road to Ruin: Are We Safe?
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    #16 - Road to Ruin: Are We Safe?

    S2007:E16

    The Minnesota bridge collapse is investigated by Soledad O'Brien, Drew Griffin, Jim Acosta and Ted Rowlands.

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  17. CNN Special Investigations Unit Season 2007 Episode 17 - Growing Up Diana
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    #17 - Growing Up Diana

    S2007:E17

    Soledad O'Brien examines Princess Diana's early years. Included: inside her childhood home; where she and Prince Charles first met; how her parents' divorce impacted her; and remarks from family members, friends and a childhood nanny.

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  18. CNN Special Investigations Unit Season 2007 Episode 18 - Children of the Storm
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    #18 - Children of the Storm

    S2007:E18

    CNN's Soledad O'Brien and Spike Lee help 11 Gulf Coast teens tell their Katrina-recovery stories in video-diary form. Filmed between January and August 2007, the entries detail their hopes, as well as challenges they continue to face.

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  19. CNN Special Investigations Unit Season 2007 Episode 19 - Narco State: The Poppy Jihad
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    #19 - Narco State: The Poppy Jihad

    S2007:E19

    Anderson Cooper reports on Afghanistan, where the Taliban is using profits from the poppy trade to fuel its resurgence. Included: efforts by NATO and U.S. forces to eradicate the drug trade; a visit to a Taliban-controlled area.

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  20. CNN Special Investigations Unit Season 2007 Episode 20 - Afghanistan: Lifting the Veil
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    #20 - Afghanistan: Lifting the Veil

    S2007:E20

    In this powerful follow-up to the 2001 “CNN Presents” episode “Beneath the Veil,” about life for Afghan women under the Taliban, Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy traversed Afghanistan to see whether conditions have improved since the Taliban were ousted. She discovered that while some hope exists, change has been slow. For example, though the government no longer requires women to wear burqas, their husbands and families do. Included: women who committed self-immolation; a girls' school.

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  21. CNN Special Investigations Unit Season 2007 Episode 21 - Judgment in Jena
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    #21 - Judgment in Jena

    S2007:E21

    Kyra Phillips reports on the “Jena 6” case, in which six black Jena, La., high-school students are being prosecuted for injuring a white classmate during a schoolyard brawl, while none of the white youths involved were charged.

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  22. CNN Special Investigations Unit Season 2007 Episode 22 - Fed Up: America's Killer Diet
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    #22 - Fed Up: America's Killer Diet

    S2007:E22

    Dr. Sanjay Gupta examines diet's impact on the brain and the rest of the body. Included: Dr. Mark Jacobsen (Center for Science in the Public Interest); Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa); LaDonna Redmond, a Chicago agriculture activist; and psychiatrist Joseph Hibbeln.

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  23. CNN Special Investigations Unit Season 2007 Episode 23 - Ahmadinejad: Soldier of God
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    #23 - Ahmadinejad: Soldier of God

    S2007:E23

    Christiane Amanpour profiles Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and discusses modern-day Iran. Included: an interview with Ahmadinejad about Iran's nuclear program.

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  24. CNN Special Investigations Unit Season 2007 Episode 24 - The Minds of the D.C. Snipers
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    #24 - The Minds of the D.C. Snipers

    S2007:E24

    Soledad O'Brien examines the Beltway sniper case that terrorized the mid-Atlantic region in October 2002. Included: comments from the families of convicted snipers John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo, and Charles A. Moose, former chief of the Montgomery County (Md.) Police Department; an interview with Muhammad.

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  25. CNN Special Investigations Unit Season 2007 Episode 25 - The Noose: An American Nightmare
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    #25 - The Noose: An American Nightmare

    S2007:E25

    Kyra Phillips reports on an upsurge in incidents in which nooses are displayed in an attempt to intimidate black people. Included: the historical significance of the noose; insights from historian James Allan and the Southern Poverty Law Center's Mark Potok; investigating hate crimes in Nassau County, N.Y.; what Philadelphia educators teach students about racial intolerance in America's past.

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Season 2007 Ratings Summary

"The War Within" is the best rated episode of "CNN Special Investigations Unit" season 2007. It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 1/20/2007. This episode is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "The Journalist and the Jihadi".