Europe. Now home to 18 million Muslims — which some call “Eurabia” — the continent is a challenge to intelligence services on both sides of the Atlantic, exacerbated by political divisions over the Iraq War. In this joint multimedia project between the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s documentary program “the fifth estate”, The New York Times and FRONTLINE, Professor Lowell Bergman examines the alarming threat radical Salafist jihadists pose to Western Europe and its allies including the United States.

Reporting for “Al Qaeda’s New Front” was done as a project of the Investigative Journalism for Print and Television Seminar at the University of California Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, taught by Lowell Bergman and Rob Gunnison. Reporting by students helped inform the on-camera interviews, and more extensive articles by them are featured on the FRONTLINE Web site.

The project was edited and produced by Marlena Telvick. Reporting and research by Lowell Bergman, Michael Schreiber, Bruce Livesey and Marlena Telvick and U.C. Berkeley graduate students Andrew Becker, Steven Bodzin, Mark Chediak, Nathanael Johnson, Zack Johnson and John Letzing. With the assistance of Sarah Wiener-Boone.

The Center for Investigative Reporting provided support to reporter Telvick for her contributions to the program’s companion website at PBS.org. Telvick authored two stories, “Al Qaeda Today: The New Face of the Global Jihad,” and a second, “Identity Crisis: Old Europe Meets New Islam” looks at why some Muslims are becoming radicalized in Europe.

“Al Qaeda’s New Front” won the 2005 duPont-Columbia Award’s Silver Baton.