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FRONTLINE: Film Audio Track | PBS

American Terrorist

FRONTLINE: Film Audio Track | PBS

FRONTLINE

Pbs, Tv & Film, Wgbh, Documentaries, Frontline

4.82.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 June 2015

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

FRONTLINE and ProPublica investigate American-born terrorist David Coleman Headley. (Original Upload Date: 04/27/2015)

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0:00.0

This is an audio cast of the Frontline Program American Terrorist broadcast April 21st on PBS.

0:09.0

The Public

0:31.0

The public needs to decide whether these programs are right or wrong.

0:35.0

defenders of the NSA said the spying was necessary,

0:38.0

and they produced an example.

0:39.4

David Hadley.

0:40.0

David Hadley.

0:41.2

David Coleman Hadley, an American, recruited

0:44.4

by Pakistani terrorists to help plan

0:47.0

the most spectacular attack since 9-11.

0:50.4

So many as a people lost their lives.

0:53.3

But was he's capture an intelligence success?

0:56.9

Nobody detected him, nobody stopped him.

0:58.7

Lots and lots of people died.

1:00.4

Pro-Publica reporter Sebastian Rhotella

1:02.6

on Earth's new details about Hadley's shadowy life.

1:05.6

It's a draft memoir.

1:06.8

This is the first time it's been made public.

1:09.2

And evidence of how high text buys access

1:11.9

to terrorists' communications, but still didn't stop the attack.

1:15.7

What role did the program play in stopping at?

1:18.7

None.

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