Twenty-five years after his cult TV series, Kir Royal, director Helmut Dietl has now come released a sort of ?sequel? for the big screen. Zettl focuses on the high-flying career of a ruthless media man in Berlin. As satire, however, the frigid figures in Zettl fail to warm up to viewers. ...
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Part three: Zarqawi moved effortlessly from one battlefield to the next, from the
Iraqi desert to Berlin and into cyberspace. His Internet website was his own private stage. Hostages, the President of the United States and Europe's heads of
state were just bit-part actors in a drama directed by him alone. The last
part of our series. By Urs Gehriger
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Part two: Young men travelled to Iraq to be knighted as warriors by Zarqawi. But for
the Prince of Al-Qaida, only the most devout were good enough – and they feared neither death nor torture. Part two in our series. By Urs Gehriger and Marwan Shehadeh
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Al-Qaida top terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was killed on June 7, 2006,
when the US army bombed the house he was visiting. Before that, he was Al-Qaida's commander in Iraq and an idol for Islamists throughout the world - a
man who took the knife into his own hands to slaughter
enemies. Part One of a three-part series tells of al-Zarqawi's rise to be Iraq's most-wanted terrorist. By Urs Gehriger
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