Terrorism: A World in Shadows

Overview

What are the causes of terrorism, and how will it affect the future? This series examines those questions and more by exploring the religious, political and ethnic origins of terrorism, and profiling terrorist ideologies, systems and personalities. From Northern Ireland and Palestine to the Achille Lauro cruise ship hijacking and the murder of Israeli Olympic athletes at the 1972 Munich games, this series looks at past and present threats.