Justice Employees Help Set Up Iraqi Courts
National Public Radio. Feb.16, 2008
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Attorney General Michael Mukasey recently visited Baghdad to meet with Justice Department employees helping to reestablish an Iraqi court system. Ari Shapiro talked with department employees about what they're doing and why it's important to the stability of Iraq. Discusses relationship between security and rule of law.

Obama's War
PBS Frontline
In Obama's War, veteran correspondent Martin Smith travels across Afghanistan and Pakistan to see first-hand how the president's new strategy is taking shape. Through interviews with top generals, diplomats and government officials, Smith also reports the internal debates over President Obama's grand attempt to combat terrorism at its roots. "What we found on the ground was a huge exercise in nation building," says Smith. "The concept's become a bit of a dirty word, but that's what this is. We started with the goal of eliminating Al Qaeda, and now we've wound up with the immense task of re-engineering two nations." "It's trying to change the culture of the organization," Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the top commander in Afghanistan, tells FRONTLINE of the administration's plan. "At the end of the day, our best counterinsurgents are going to be young sergeants who just have an ability to deal with people. We've got to give them the flexibility to make decisions." "In Afghanistan we know what to do; we just don't know if we have the resources or the time available to do it," David Kilcullen, a leading counterinsurgency expert, tells FRONTLINE. "The problem in Pakistan is we're not really sure what to do." "If we have a strategy in Pakistan," says George Packer, a staff writer at The New Yorker, "it's to build up the civilian government to the point where it can be a kind of counterbalance to the military and begin to reorient their own sense of their destiny. Is that even thinkable for a foreign power to do? Even as I say it, I think, why do we think we could even begin to accomplish that?"

Children of the Taliban
PBS Frontline
The city of Peshawar is on high alert. The Taliban are closing in, regularly attacking police convoys, kidnapping diplomats, and shooting foreigners. The fighting across this volatile region has driven thousands of families from their homes and many have found shelter in Peshawar. Correspondent Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy is traveling across her fractured homeland to investigate the rising popularity of a new Pakistani branch of the Taliban, now threatening the major cities, blowing up girls’ schools and declaring war on the Pakistani state. Her journey begins at a rehabilitation center in Peshawar, where she talks with many young victims caught in the crossfire of this war.

Rising Powers: The New Global Reality
The Stanley Foundation 2009
"The Global order is changing. The 21st century will be marked by many competing sources o global power. Across politics, economics, culture, military strength, and more, a new group of countries has growing influence over the future of the world." TSF
Multimedia site (audio and streaming video) covering issues of Non-state Actors, Nuclear Nonproliferation, Energy and Global Regional Systems.

PBS NOVA: The Spy Factory
PBS Feb. 2009 Approx. 50 min.
Examine the high-tech eavesdropping carried out by the National Security Agency and the pitfalls of surveillance in an age of terrorism.

PBS FRONTLINE/Rough cut Series.
Sri Lanka: A Terrorist in the Family. Inside the life of a female suicide bomber
PBS Oct. 2008 Approx. 14 min.
Considered the most professional guerilla organization in the world and one of the first to employ suicide bombing, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) have engaged the Sri Lankan government in a brutal civil war for the past 25 years. It's one of the longest-running wars in Southeast Asia in which an estimated 70,000 people have lost their lives.

PBS FRONTLINE: Cyberwar!
PBS Apr. 2003 Approx. 50 min.
In the aftermath of Sept. 11, 2001, as most U.S. intelligence shifted to finding Al Qaeda cells around the world, one group at the White House decided to investigate a new threat -- attacks from cyberspace. "The critical infrastructure of the United States, including electrical power, finance, telecommunications, health care, transportation, water, defense and the Internet, is highly vulnerable to cyber attack. Fast and resolute mitigating action is needed to avoid national disaster," wrote the authors of the letter, who included J. M. McConnell, a former head of the National Security Agency, Stephen J. Lukasik of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, and Sami Saydjari of the Cyber Defense Agency.

PBS FRONTLINE: The War Briefing
PBS Oct. 2008 Approx. 60 min.
The next president of the United States will inherit a foreign policy nightmare: wars on two fronts, an overstretched military, a resurgent Taliban and a reconstituted Al Qaeda based far from America's reach. In The War Briefing, award-winning FRONTLINE producer Marcela Gaviria and correspondent Martin Smith offer harrowing on-the-ground reporting from the deadliest battlefield in the mountains of Afghanistan, and follow the trail to the militant safe havens deep inside the Pakistani tribal areas, probing some of the most urgent foreign policy challenges facing the next president.

China to fight pirates
CNN Dec. 2008 Approx. 1 1/2 min.
China is sending three warships to combat piracy in the waters off the Somali coast. CNN's Emily Chang reports.

On the trail of Somali pirates
BBC Feb. 2009 Approx. 2 min.
Jonah Fisher reports on the activities of a detachment of Royal Marines from HMS Northumberland. The patrol stops a small boat as part of an international effort against piracy. The boat is carrying migrants from Somalia to Yemen. Returning to HMS Northumberland, a distress call is received from a Greek owned container ship that has just been hijacked. The crew have no choice but to look on helplessly as the pirates return to Somalia with their prize.