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Watch: The Torture Question
FRONTLINE investigates how the post-9/11 "get tough" policy of the U.S. government worked its way down to the cell blocks of Abu Ghraib.
May 19, 2015
Why You Never Saw The CIA's Interrogation Tapes
When videotapes depicting "enhanced interrogations" of two Al Qaeda suspects in CIA detention were destroyed, even the agency's own lawyer says he was shocked.
May 19, 2015
54m
Secrets, Politics and Torture
The dramatic story of the fight over the CIA's controversial interrogation methods, widely criticized as torture.
May 19, 2015
WATCH: How the CIA Helped Make "Zero Dark Thirty"
The blockbuster reflected the CIA's narrative that "enhanced interrogation techniques" -- widely criticized as torture -- were key in finding and killing Osama bin Laden. But was that version of history true?
May 15, 2015
The Memoir of an "American Terrorist"
In excerpts from an unpublished manuscript, the American who aided in 2008's deadly attack on Mumbai writes about his turn to extremism, his embrace of polygamy and a plot to kill a cartoonist for drawings of the Prophet Muhammad.
April 21, 2015
Five Surprising Facts About the American Behind "India's 9/11"
Inside David Coleman Headley's journey from heroin smuggler to DEA informant to terrorist.
April 21, 2015
The Hidden Intelligence Breakdowns Behind the Mumbai Attacks
After Edward Snowden, the government said its controversial surveillance programs had stopped a terrorist – David Coleman Headley. In 'American Terrorist”, ProPublica and FRONTLINE investigate that claim.
April 21, 2015
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American Terrorist
How secret electronic surveillance missed catching the Mumbai plotters -- and how American-born David Coleman Headley planned another Charlie Hebdo-like assault against a Danish newspaper.
April 21, 2015
Report: Boko Haram Has Abducted More Than 2,000 Since Start of '14
It is now one year since the militant group Boko Haram kidnapped more than 200 Nigerian schoolgirls from Chibok. We may not know where they are, but a grim report from Amnesty International offers a glimpse into the trials the kidnapped girls may be facing.
April 14, 2015
Al Qaeda Exploiting the Conflict in Yemen, says Pentagon Chief
Defense Secretary Ashton Carter warned that Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula was exploiting a power vacuum in Yemen and "making direct gains on the ground."
April 8, 2015
Report: Boko Haram Has Claimed More Than 1,000 Lives in 2015
A new report from Human Rights Watch finds that the pace of attacks by the Nigerian extremist group is up over last year, when nearly 4,000 were killed by them.
March 27, 2015
Yemen Rebels Advance on Aden; President Reportedly Flees
President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi's exit, if confirmed, deepens a power vacuum in the country, home to one of Al Qaeda's most powerful branches.
March 25, 2015