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Not a youtube or dailymotion link but instead of starting a thread i will put this here.3 minute wonder featuring short programmes on surveillence and cctv.Scroll down on the channel 4 site to see each video.One of the videos includes a train station master who paid 12k over the years to install cctv.
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[h3]Car Bomb E1 [/h3]
Documentary
Car Bomb
Channel 4 20:00 - 21:00 60 min
27th July 08
Former CIA agent Bob Baer (he made the excellent Cult of the Suicide Bomber series) continues his look at the nature of terrorism today with an examination of what he describes as "the deadliest weapon of the 21st century". But the car bomb's origins actually go much further back, to 1920 when an Italian anarchist (or so it's believed) steered a horse-drawn cart packed with explosives into Wall Street. The blast tore at the heart of the New York financial district and killed more than 40 people. Baer tracks the development of a terrifyingly simple, cheap and appallingly effective weapon of guerrilla war from this first outrage to its devastating contemporary prevalence. Along the way, he revisits Beirut and recalls the bombing of the city's American Embassy in 1983, which killed many of his friends and CIA colleagues. Baer is obviously a man who knows his stuff and he's a good interviewer, whose deceptively easy-going manner draws forth some appalling stories of mass murder in the pursuit of a cause.



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For generations the greatest perceived threat to the West has been nuclear. But the greatest threat is actually a far less sophisticated piece of weaponry, comprising just a stolen vehicle and a boot-load of homemade explosives. Crude and deadly, this threat is the car bomb.
In the second part of his documentary, ex-CIA operative Robert Baer (pictured) concludes his investigation into the evolution of this simple but most deadly of insurgent weapons. Tonight Baer travels to Belfast, where he secures interviews with an IRA explosive manufacturer, an IRA bomb maker and a female bomb planter. He also meets investigators in both London and Oklahoma who have been on the trail of those responsible for car bombing, as well as the brave men and women from the world of bomb disposal, to help answer the big question: can we defeat the car bomb?


Car Bomb Episode 2

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Thanks for this post, really good programme, especially Dave Williams, the FBI Investigator at WTC in 1993 and The Oklahoma Bombing, SWAG !
 
n November 2004, a FRONTLINE production team embedded with the soldiers of the 1-8 Cavalry's Dog Company in south Baghdad to document the day-to-day realities of a life-and-death military mission that also includes rebuilding Iraq's infrastructure, promoting its economic development, and building positive relations with its people.
Filming began three days after the Fallujah campaign was launched in November 2004. There was a surge in violence as an insurgent group, thought to have come from Ramadi, launched a series of ambushes and attacks in Dog Company's sector.
The campaign of violence began when two huge car bombs exploded at Christian churches. The unit responded immediately but found both churches sustained heavy damage. As they returned to base, they were ambushed and came under attack from gunfire and rocket-propelled grenades. They fired back, forcing the insurgents to flee, but in the process a civilian was hit by a ricochet and fatally wounded.
The next day, the situation escalated further. A Dog Company patrol was ambushed and in the fighting Spc. Travis Babbitt, a gunner, was hit. Despite being mortally wounded he managed to return fire before collapsing, killing several insurgents and saving the lives of his fellow soldiers in the process.
Back at the base, patrol leader Capt. Jason Whiteley called his men together to break the news.
"Babbitt was a superb soldier, and he was a great friend to all of us, and he died like he should. He went out fighting," said Captain Whiteley. "We all loved him like a brother, and it's going to be very, very difficult for all of us, including me. But what we have to do now is be strong for the guys who are on the team, for each other…. Because later on tonight, tomorrow morning, we're going to be back on the same road, we're going to be going back into another ambush."
The loss hit the unit hard.
"I don't have a wife or kids. I don't have somebody waiting for me back home, so sometimes I wish it was me, and not Babbitt," says Private Josue Reyes, who at age 19 is the youngest member of the unit and was sent to Iraq straight from basic training.
Later the same patrol was ambushed again, this time with an improvised explosive device known as an IED. One soldier was injured in the attack.
The unit learned that Capt. Whiteley had been personally targeted by the insurgents. He briefed his men on the threat.
"The source stated that due to the killing of a local Iraqi, Capt. Whiteley had been blamed for the death. The relatives had sworn revenge against Capt. Whiteley," Whiteley said, before adding, "I think we've been dealing with an elevated threat level even before this little love note … and we're just going to do things normally. There's no need to get excited about it. People are trying to kill you."
Over the following days, another soldier was killed, and several more injured as the unit embarked on a series of running gun battles and was repeatedly ambushed. The base was hit again and again by mortars and rockets.
The unit went on the offensive in an area that had supported many of the attacks against them, killing at least 24 insurgents.
Senior officers put pressure on local power brokers, telling them in no uncertain terms they must stop the attacks -- or face the full might of the U.S. Army. Rebuilding came to a standstill as the military diverted its resources to destroying the enemy.
Then a lucky break: the Iraqi National Guard found a large weapons cache near one of the mosques which had been at the heart of the many ambushes, including the one which claimed the life of Spc. Babbitt.
Violence began to die down, and the unit returned to the challenging task of nation-building in a hostile land.
"It's kind of like your big brother coming into your room and saying you need to clean your room, and you know how to clean your room and you know, you want to do it yourself, you don't want anybody telling you what to do. Kind of think that's one thing," says Private Reyes.
But the soldiers of Dog Company remained committed.
"After the incident with Babbitt, I was asked if I needed a break, if I wanted to come off the team for a while," says Sergeant Gabriel Garcia. "That's not even a question for me. There's no way I'd leave the team. No way."
"You build a bond here, when you go through life-threatening things every day, when you spend all your time with the same group of people; you sleep with them, you eat with them, you clean with them, you cry with them," says Sergeant Shane Carpenter. "I mean, there's a bond between the men and women I work with out here that I've never felt with anyone else in my life."




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Homeland Security U.S.A.

Every day the men and women of the Department of Homeland Security patrol more than 100,000 miles of America's borders. This territory includes airports, seaports, land borders, international mail centers, the open seas, mountains, deserts and even cyberspace. Now viewers will get an unprecedented look at the work of these men and women while they use the newest technology to safeguard our country and enforce our laws, in "Homeland Security USA," which debuts with the episode "This is Your Car on Drugs,".

Comprised of 13 hour-long episodes shot entirely on location throughout the United States, "Homeland Security USA" is based on a popular Australian series now in its fifth season. Produced by Oscar and Emmy-winner Arnold Shapiro ("Scared Straight," "Big Brother"), the series takes cameras into situations never before seen on television, with each episode covering eight or more locations on the "front lines" where the officers and agents work each day. They have a job that is dangerous, difficult and always unpredictable. These aren't heroes. They're average men and women working against an epic landscape. The Department's missions include everything from vetting adoption papers and checking visitors' passports to intercepting undocumented immigrants, drugs and other contraband, and stopping potential terrorists trying to cross our borders. What viewers will see is powerful, dramatic, unforgettable and emotional, with unexpected moments of humor.

"They're ordinary men and women working against an epic landscape," said Shapiro. "They have a job that is dangerous, difficult and always unpredictable. What viewers will see is powerful, dramatic, amazing and emotional, with unexpected moments of humor."

"Homeland Security USA" has been given unprecedented access to the agencies of the Department of Homeland Security and has the full cooperation of CBP (Customs & Border Protection) including CBP's Border Patrol; ICE (Immigration & Customs Enforcement); TSA (Transportation Security Administration); USCG (United States Coast Guard) and USCIS (United States Citizenship & Immigration Services).
Episode 1
The series begins with a search for undocumented immigrants along the U.S.-Mexican and for smuggler's in Canada who have been sneaking drugs into the country inside of baby diapers.
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