Peter Taylor’s ‘Age of Terror’

Peter Taylor’s documentary ‘Attack on the West’ is a hugely useful resource for the Terrorism topic in the Global Issues course. The entire Age of Terror series is relevant but, in the interests of time, the episode detailing the truck bombing on the US Embassy in Nairobi is possibly the most useful. It does contain some pretty graphic images but does provide some real insight into the pre-9/11 nature, methods and outlook of Bin Laden’s war on the west. The other programmes feature the story of the Entebbe hostage drama, a huge cache of arms being sent to the IRA by Colonel Gaddafi, a 1994 Islamist plot to fly a hijacked Air France jet into buildings in Paris and the attack on a school in Breslan.

As an accompaniment the BBC’s Age of Terror webpages are similarly excellent. In addition Peter Taylor’s more recent investigations into Al-Qaeda (‘The New Al-Qaeda: jihad.com’ ‘Investigating al-Qaeda’ ) are summarised on the BBC website. I can’t find these programmes themselves online - it would be great if anyone could flag up where they can be found.