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Roots of Terrorism
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  • Key Organizations
  • Maps of the Region
  • Country Briefings
  • "Basic Facts About Islam"

  • Classroom Activities
  • Activity 1: Roots of Hatred
  • Activity 2: Defining Terrorism
  • Activity 3: Defining an Ally
  • Activity 4: Views of bin Laden
  • Activity 5: U.N. Simulations
  • Activity 6: Making Connections
  • Activity 7: Media and Perception
  • Activity 8: Debates, Discussion Questions, and Writing Prompts
  • Activity 9: How Are You Being Represented?

  • Resources
    Where to go on the Web for more information

    This list identifies people who are interviewed and/or discussed in the four FRONTLINE films.

    (Note: FRONTLINE has posted its profiles and extended interviews with some of the following individuals on its website. Click on the person's name to access further information.)

    Hunting bin Laden

    • SAID K. ABURISH, journalist/author
    • GEN. OMAR HASSAN AHMED AL-BASHIR, president, Sudan
    • DR. SAAD AL-FAGIH, Movement for Islamic Reform in Arabia, Saudi dissident
    • MOHAMMED AL-MASARI, Saudi dissident
    • AYMAN AL-ZAWAHIRI, military chief of Egyptian Islamic Jihad
    • FRANK ANDERSON, leading CIA authority on the Arab Middle East, 1968-1995
    • MILT BEARDEN, CIA field officer charged with overseeing the agency's operations, 1964-1994
    • SAMUEL R. (SANDY) BERGER, national security adviser, Clinton administration
    • PRUDENCE BUSHNELL, U.S. ambassador to Kenya
    • BILL CLINTON, U.S. president, 1993-2001
    • WADIH EL HAGE, Osama bin Laden's personal secretary in Sudan
    • KING FAHD, reigning monarch of Saudi Arabia
    • LARRY C. JOHNSON, deputy director of the U.S. State Department's Office of Counterterrorism, 1989-1993
    • OSAMA BIN LADEN, leader of Al Qaeda
    • AHMED SATTAR, close associate of Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman
    • SHEIK ALI SHEE, chairman of the Council of Imams
    • RAMZI YOUSEF, convicted of 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center

    Target America

    • L. PAUL BREMER, director of U.S. State Department's Office of Counterterrorism, 1986-1989
    • WILLIAM BUCKLEY, chief of the Beirut CIA station
    • GEORGE H.W. BUSH, U.S. president, 1989-1993
    • VINCENT CANNISTRARO, director of U.S. National Security Council intelligence, 1984-1987
    • WILLIAM CASEY, director of the CIA during Reagan administration
    • LT. COL. BILL COWAN, Pentagon intelligence support, 1983-1994
    • ROBERT DILLON, U.S. ambassador to Lebanon, 1981-1983
    • SHEIK FADLALLAH, spiritual leader of Hezbollah
    • ROBERT C. MCFARLANE, national security adviser, 1983-1985
    • HUSSEIN MUSAWI, Islamic Amal leader
    • ROBERT OAKLEY, director of the U.S. State Department's Office of Counterterrorism, 1984-1986
    • GEN. COLIN POWELL, Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger's chief military aide in the Reagan administration and current U.S. secretary of state
    • MUAMMAR QADDAFI, Libyan leader
    • RONALD REAGAN, U.S. president, 1981-1989
    • GEORGE SHULTZ, U.S. secretary of state, 1982-1989
    • PRINCE BANDAR BIN SULTAN, Saudi ambassador to U.S.
    • CASPAR WEINBERGER, U.S. secretary of defense, 1981-1987

    Looking for Answers

    • DR. SAAD AL-FAGIH, Movement for Islamic Reform in Arabia, Saudi dissident
    • AYMAN AL-ZAWAHIRI, military chief of Egyptian Islamic Jihad
    • GEN. FOUAD ALLAM, former head of Egyptian internal security
    • RICHARD ARMITAGE, Colin Powell's deputy secretary of state
    • MOHAMED ATEF, deputy to Ayman al-Zawahiri
    • MILT BEARDEN, CIA field officer charged with overseeing the agency's operations, 1964-1994
    • GEORGE W. BUSH, U.S. president, 2001 -
    • KING FAHD, reigning monarch of Saudi Arabia
    • NABIL FAHMY, Egyptian ambassador to the U.S.
    • SADDAM HUSSEIN, president of Iraq
    • OSAMA BIN LADEN, leader of Al Qaeda
    • HOSNI MUBARAK, current president of Egypt
    • NABIL MUSAWI, Iraqi National Congress, a leader of the Iraqi opposition trying to overthrow Saddam Hussein
    • GAMAL ABDEL NASSER, former president of Egypt
    • SHEIK OMAR ABDUL RAHMAN, spiritual leader of Islamic Jihad
    • ANWAR SADAT, former president of Egypt
    • SHEIK ALI SHEE, chairman of the Council of Imams
    • MICHAEL SHEEHAN, head of the U.S. State Department's Office of Counterterrorism, 1998-2001
    • PRINCE BANDAR BIN SULTAN, Saudi ambassador to U.S.
    • HASSAN TURABI, former speaker of Sudanese Assembly, known as the "pope of terrorism"
    • EDWARD WALKER, U.S. ambassador to Egypt, 1994-1997
    • RAMZI YOUSEF, convicted of 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center

    Saudi Time Bomb

    • ALI AL-AHMED, Saudi activist, member of the Shia Muslim minority
    • JAMES BAKER III, U.S. secretary of state, 1989-1992
    • GEORGE W. BUSH, U.S. president, 2001 -
    • MOHAMMED CHARIF, president, Comoran Council of Ulamas
    • KING FAHD, reigning monarch of Saudi Arabia
    • HAROUN FAZUL, Al Qaeda member responsible for driving truck bomb that killed 213 people at U.S. embassy in Nairobi, Kenya
    • NORBERT GARRETT, CIA, 1964-1991
    • SHAFEEQ GHABRA, director, Kuwaiti Information Office
    • MAHER HATHOUT, Muslim Public Affairs Council
    • RICHARD HOLBROOKE, U.S. ambassador to the U.N., 1999-2001
    • OSAMA BIN LADEN, leader of Al Qaeda
    • MOHAMED ABDOU M'MADI, prime minister of the Comoros, 1994
    • NABIL MUSAWI, Iraqi National Congress, a leader of the Iraqi opposition trying to overthrow Saddam Hussein
    • VALI NASR, political scientist, University of San Diego
    • WILLIAM QUANDT, National Security Council, 1972-1974, 1977-1979
    • DONALD RUMSFELD, U.S. secretary of defense
    • BRENT SCOWCROFT, U.S. national security adviser, 1989-1992
    • MAI YAMANI, anthropologist, Royal Institute of International Affairs, member of a prominent Saudi family

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