Unreported World Somalia Al-Qaedas New Haven

DOCUMENTARY: Unreported World Channel: Channel 4 104 Date: Saturday 26th November 2005 Time: 18:15 to 18:45 Duration: 30 minutes. Somalia: Al-Qaeda's New Haven. Unreported World visits one of the most dangerous places on earth to investigate the growth of a militant Islamic network and asks whether Somalia's fertile training ground for Islamic terrorists could provoke a regional civil war. Reporter Aidan Hartley and Producer James Brabazon are the first western journalists to set foot in Somalia since BBC producer Kate Peyton was killed nine months ago while crossing a Mogadishu street. A decade has passed since the UN military mission in Somalia ended following the deaths of 18 US special forces and 1,000 Somalis in the so-called "Blackhawk Down" battle. The state has collapsed completely, with warlords controlling the country and more than half a million people killed over the last ten years by war and famine. But the warlords' hold on the country is now being superseded by a new, well-funded Islamic network. America alleges the militants' leader Shayk Hasan Dahir Aweys is linked to al-Qaeda, and other contacts tell Hartley that rich Saudi businessmen are backing the jihadi network, which is training 3,000 men to spread Islamic revolution all over the African continent. Reporter: Aidan Hartley Video Capping Information Size: 272MB Length: 24m 25s (25fps) Resolution: 512 x 384 (AR 4:3) Codec: xvid (2 pass, multi) VidBR: 1000kbps Audio Codec: 0x0055(MP3, ISO) MPEG-1 Layer 3 Audio Info: 48000Hz 128 kb/s total (2 channels)