Age of Terror

The 1990 murder of an extremist rabbi goes largely unnoticed. But the mystery of El Sayyid Nossair unravels terrorist with connections to Osama bin Laden. Emad Salem recounts how the FBI recruits him to go undercover.

The CIA and Clinton Administration are trying to understand the rise in jihadi terror. Classified operations target Osama bin Laden and an intimate profile of bin Laden emerges.

The final episode explores how the September 11th attack came to be. A portrait emerges of the true mastermind of the attack, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.

How does a local militia run by a former criminal become the world's most feared terrorist organization--a self-proclaimed state able to coordinate and inspire deadly attacks in cities and towns around the world?