08/09/2011
9/11 special programme from Fort Campbell military base in Kentucky. Three-year public inquiry into the death of Iraqi hotel worker Baha Mousa. Waterlogged US Open court.
Peter Allen in Kentucky and Aasmah Mir in London.
Peter Allen comes from Fort Campbell military base in Kentucky, home of the 101st airborne division. He talks to soldiers who have served in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Bruce Riedel former CIA operative and senior advisor to three U.S presidents discusses with Peter the effect of 9/11 on the country, and the continuing threat of Al-Qaeda.
A 3-year public inquiry has found that the Iraqi hotel worker Baha Mousa died after suffering an 'appalling episode of serious and gratuitous violence' by members of 1st Battalion the Queen's Lancashire Regiment. Chris Parker served with the Desert Rats and was chief of staff in Iraq until shortly before Baha Mousa's death.
Regis Manynya, a political and human rights activist and Albert Wiederman, a Zimbabwean human rights activist debate whether the Archbishop of Canterbury should be meeting up with Robert Mugabe.
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