Frank Gardner

BBC Security Correspondent

FRANK GARDNER is the BBC'S SECURITY CORRESPONDENT
- the only network TV journalist in Britain to be covering the War on Terror full-time around the world.

" Broadcasts almost daily to audiences of millions about Al-Qaeda, Terrorism, Security and the threat of Bio-weapons for BBC1 TV and BBC Radio 4.

" A fluent Arabic-speaker with a degree in Arabic & Islamic Studies, 41-year old Frank Gardner has reported for the BBC from all over the Middle East and more than 20 countries worldwide.

" Unlike most of today's pundits on Global Terrorism, Frank has spent a lot of time in Al-Qaeda's spiritual heartland - meeting and interviewing Bin Laden supporters in the back streets of Saudi Arabia and Yemen, finding out first-hand why they hate the West.

" He is unusually well informed on how the intelligence war on Al-Qaeda is being fought. He has met interrogators in Guantanamo Bay, trial prosecutors in Europe, and intelligence officials on both sides of the Atlantic.

" Above all, he has a proven ability to explain clearly to an audience the nature of Al-Qaeda and the threat it now poses, together with insights and anecdotes rarely heard 'on air'.

" In June 2004 Frank was seriously injured when reporting from Saudi Arabia; these injuries have left Frank in a wheelchair. His cameraman Simon Cumbers was shot dead during the incident.

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