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  Early Israeli Terrorism

  Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 1/5/2009

  On 22 July 1946, a Zionist group Irgun, bombed the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, British Mandate of Palestine, killing 91 people.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  The Al-Qaeda Menace

  Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 1/5/2009

  On 11 September 2001, international Islamist group Al-Qaeda hijacked four passenger planes, and deliberately flew two of them into the World Trade Center, one into The Pentagon, and crashed the other in a field in Pennsylvania, killing 2,998 people.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  The IRA

  Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 1/6/2009

  A brief history of Irish Republican terrorism.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  Fatah/Hamas

  Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 1/6/2009

  Palestinian terrorism, including events in Munich, in September 1972, when militant group Black September kidnapped and murdered 11 Israeli sportspeople.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  PLO

  Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 1/7/2009

  The hijacking of three passenger planes, in September 1970, by the PLO, accompanied by demands for the release of imprisoned Palestinians.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  ETA, Spain

  Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 1/7/2009

  The murder of Luis Carrero Blanco. On 20 December 1973, the Prime Minister of Spain was assassinated with a car bomb, by communist group ETA.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  The Red Brigades

  Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 1/8/2009

  Formed in 1970, the Brigate Rosse (Red Brigades) sought to create a revolutionary state through armed struggle and to separate Italy from the Western Alliance (NATO). The Red Brigades’ main aim was the overthrow of the Italian government, the weakening of NATO and the creation of a Marxist state.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  The Baader-Meinhof Gang

  Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 1/8/2009

  Terrorist acts committed by far-left group Baader Meinhof Gang / Red Army Faction in Germany in the 1970s and 1980s.

  Director: Jonathan Martin

  Writer: Unknown

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  EOKA

  Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 1/9/2009

  EOKA's attacks on police stations, government offices and military installations on Cyprus in the 1950s.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  Nasser and Egyptian Terrorism

  Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 1/10/2009

  The history of Egyptian terrorism, including the 17 November 1997, murder of 59 foreign tourists, three police officers and a tour guide by Egyptian group al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  Colonel Gaddafi and Libya

  Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 1/12/2009

  On 21 December 1988, Libya bombed transatlantic Pan Am flight 103 over the small Scottish town of Lockerbie.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  Algeria and the OAS

  Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 1/12/2009

  The group OAS committed a series of attacks, killing hundreds, in an attempt to keep Algeria governed by France.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  The SLA and Patty Hearst

  Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 1/13/2009

  In 1974, left-wing group the Symbionese Liberation Army kidnapped heiress Patty Hearst, exerting pressure on her to make them join in their violent activities.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  The Weathermen

  Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 1/13/2009

  Communist group The Weathermen carried out a series of bombings in the United States from 1969 - 1977.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  The Oklahoma Bomber

  Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 1/14/2009

  On 19 April 1995, Timothy McVeigh bombed the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  The Ku Klux Klan

  Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 1/14/2009

  A history of attacks carried out by white, right-wing Christian group KKK.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  Japanese Sarin Cult

  Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 1/15/2009

  The motives behind the March 15, 2005 gas attacks on the Tokyo subway system, committed by the new religious group Aum Shinrikyo - who aimed to destabilise the Japanese government.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  The Mahdi Army

  Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 1/15/2009

  The motives behind actions taken by the Mahdi Army, who rose to arms in Iraq after the deposition of Saddam Hussein, in reaction to the US Military banning a Shia newspaper

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  Che Guevara

  Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 1/16/2009

  The motives, morals and methods of Che Guevara who in his relatively short life managed to inspire a generation of Cuban youths into rebellion against authority.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  Fidel Castro

  Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 1/16/2009

  The story behind the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, which saw Cuban revolutionary Fidel Castro and Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev bring the world to the brink of nuclear war.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  Somali Warlords

  Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 1/19/2009

  America's disastrous attempt to capture two notorious Somali terrorists in 1993. Last in the series.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  The Taliban

  Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 1/19/2009

  The global war against the Taliban, who instigated a brutal authoritarian regime in Afghanistan.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  The Tamil Tigers

  Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 1/20/2009

  The violent campaign of the Sri Lankan terrorist group the Tamil Tigers, which started in the 1980s and has resulted in the deaths of almost 60,000 people.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown