Episode
Frontline: Target America
Overview
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Details
- Series
- Frontline
- Season
- Season 20
- Episode
- Episode 2
- Air date
- 2001-10-04
Episode context
Target America is Episode 2 in Season 20 of Frontline. It aired on 2001-10-04.
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Episode 1: Hunting Bin Laden
For years this one man has taunted, threatened and frustrated the United States. But who is he? The U.S. government has tried to link him to nearly every act of Islamic terrorism against Americans in the 90s: from the 1993 attack on the World Trade Center, to the bombings of U.S. military installations in Saudi Arabia, to the 1998 bombings of two US embassies in Africa. [This is a post-9/11 update of an episode that originally aired on 4/13/1999.]
Episode 3: Looking for Answers
Sunday night, as U.S. bombers and cruise missiles attack targets in Afghanistan, Osama bin Laden released a videotape calling on Muslims worldwide to join his war on America. Next to bin Laden was his close association, an Egyptian named Ayman al-Zawahiri, a man who is certainly as important to the terror network as bin Laden himself.
Tonight on FRONTLINE, the full story of these two men, the story of how the seeds of their hatred for America were sown not in Afghanistan but in two of the U.S.'s greatest allies in the Islamic world, Egypt and Saudi Arabia, and the story of how they joined forces to pursue a common enemy.
More episodes from this season
Episode 4: Dangerous Straits
Episode 5: Trail of a Terrorist
Episode 6: Gunning for Saddam
Episode 7: Saudi Time Bomb?
Episode 8: The Monster That Ate Hollywood
Episode 9: An Ordinary Crime
Episode 10: Inside the Terror Network
Episode 11: Dot Con
In "Dot Con," award-winning FRONTLINE producer Martin Smith takes an inside look at the precipitous rise and fall of the Internet economy -- and examines the allegations that brokers at some of Wall Street's most prestigious firms manipulated the hot IPO market of the late 1990s. Wall Street, of course, would prefer to forget the past. But investors and investigators want to know: During the headiest days of the Internet bubble, did investment banks and venture capitalists betray the public's trust? Did "irrational exuberance" give way to fraud?
Episode 12: Inside the Teenage Brain
Episode 13: American Porn
Porn is one of the largest and fastest growing forms of media in the United States. The industry’s profits have skyrocketed as we become increasingly reliant on technology for our entertainment. Why has this happened, and will the trend continue?