MONDAY 01 AUGUST
Documentary
The New Al-Qaeda
9:00pm - 10:00pm
BBC2 London & South East
VIDEO Plus+: 4081
Subtitled, Widescreen
2/3 - The Drug Dealer, Estate Agent and the Telephone Man
On 11 March last year, 191 people died in the Madrid train bombings. The killers - Islamic terrorists - were later cornered in a flat, though they blew themselves up, seeking "martyrdom", before they could be arrested. Subsequent investigations revealed them to be, outwardly at least, fully integrated into western culture. Their appalled families expressed surprise and ignorance. The parallels with the London bombers, as outlined in the second part of Peter Taylor's excellent series, are chilling. Taylor explores the ease with which a cell such as Madrid's, which included a drug dealer known to Spanish police, can flourish, and the security and policing failures that allowed the killers to plant 14 nail-filled bombs on packed commuter trains with such catastrophic results.
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