Channel 4 / Sunday 27 July 2008 @ 7.00pm

For generations the greatest perceived threat to the West has been nuclear. But in actual fact, it is a far less sophisticated piece of weaponry, comprising of just a stolen vehicle and a boot-load of homemade explosives. Crude and deadly this threat is the car bomb. From the team behind the critically-acclaimed Cult of the Suicide Bomber comes this new two-part series. 

 

Ex-CIA operative Robert Baer, whose life story was depicted by Oscar-winner George Clooney in hit Hollywood movie Syriana , charts for the first time the evolution of this simple, but most deadly of insurgent weapons. He travels through London, South Armagh, Oklahoma, Sicily, Iraq and New York, and using the access only available to a former intelligence officer, secures interviews with former members of the IRA, the Cosa Nostra and student radicals. Combining this with never-before-seen footage, this major exploration into the methodology of terrorism shows just how serious a threat the car bomb is and sets about to answer the big question: can we defeat it? 

Directed by Kevin Toolis for Many Rivers Films

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