the power of nightmares

there is a great bbc documenatry called the power of nightmares, directed by adam curtis. the doc was made in 2004 and can be seen in three parts, on netflix or on google video at the links below.

the series is about terrorism and the neocons and the radical fundamentalist islamists and the soviet invasion of afghanistan and subsequent collapse of the soviet union and sleeper cells and the assassination of anwar sadat and the near government takeover in algeria and the vilification of bill clinton and the evolution of al-qaeda and more.

part 1: baby it's cold outside, parallels and traces our current state of affairs back to the '50s, primarily to an extreme muslim who was in the u.s. to study and to the original neocons from the university of chicago.

part 2: the phantom victory, traces american involvement in rounding up arab fighters in afghanistan to make jihad on the evil soviet empire while also showing how the fundamentalist islamic movement gathered momentum throughout the arab world and was crushed to some degree in algeria and other places as it became too extreme and threatened to take over governments.

part 3: the shadows in the cave, reveals the myth of al-qaeda's organization and ties that back to how our leaders, (primarily bush and blair,) have presented so-called evidence to the public.

it is in eye-opener of a documentary that should add perspective to anyone's view of the many events documented therein.

http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=the+power+of+nightmares&emb=0#emb=0&q=power%20of%20nightmares%20part%201&src=2

http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=the+power+of+nightmares&emb=0#q=power%20of%20nightmares%20part%202&emb=0

http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=the+power+of+nightmares&emb=0#emb=0&q=the%20power%20of%20nightmares%203&src=3