FRONTLINE/World 605
Current Affairs

On December 26, 2004, the Indonesian province of Aceh was hit by the massive tsunami that killed 170,000 people and devastated villages and towns. In the wake of the catastrophe, the Indonesian army and local separatist rebels ended their decades-long war, which took 15,000 lives. FRONTLINE/World correspondent Orlando de Guzman travels to Aceh to explore the prospects for continued peace. Also in this episode: For more than 1,000 years, the people of the Faroe Islands have hunted pilot whales, yet, a landmark 20-year study of Faroese children has found that high levels of methyl mercury and other contaminants in the whale meat are harmful to a child's neurological development. In "Hero Rats," FRONTLINE/World reporter Alexis Bloom accompanies Bart Weetjens to work in Mozambique to watch his trained rodents sniff out deadly unexploded land mines; and FRONTLINE/World reporter Isaac Solotaroff follows Naif al-Mutawa as he runs his publishing enterprise in Kuwait and markets his comic The 99 throughout the Middle East, hoping to spread a moderate, modern image of Islam.

Faroe Islands, The Poisoned Sea
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Reporting from the Faroe Islands in the North Atlantic, FRONTLINE/World takes viewers to a place where descendants of Vikings are still hunting whales with unexpected consequences. SEE MORE >>

Indonesia, After the Wave
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FRONTLINE/World travels to Aceh, Indonesia, the area hardest hit by the 2005 tsunami, where the natural disaster led to the end of a long civil war and the election of a former rebel as governor, who is now trying to make ... SEE MORE >>

Tanzania, Hero Rats
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Also in this hour, FRONTLINE/World reports from Mozambique, where trained "hero rats" save lives by discovering landmines. SEE MORE >>

Kuwait, The 99
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Move over Batman and Superman; the most popular comic book in the Arab world today is The 99, tales of Muslim superheroes based on Islamic culture. It was created by Naif al-Mutawa, a 36-year-old from Kuwait who was educat... SEE MORE >>