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Nasser Al Aulaqi | ... | Self - Interviewee |
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Saleha Al Aulaqi | ... | Self - Interviewee |
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Muqbal Al Kazemi | ... | Self - Interviewee |
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Abdul Rahman Barman | ... | Self - Interviewee |
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Saleh Bin Fareed | ... | Self - Interviewee (as Sheikh Saleh Bin Fareed) |
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Andrew Exum | ... | Self - Interviewee |
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Abdul Ghafoor | ... | Self - Interviewee |
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Philip Giraldi | ... | Self - Interviewee |
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Matthew Hoh | ... | Self - Interviewee |
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Patrick Lang | ... | Self - Interviewee |
John McCain | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
William McRaven | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
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Emile Nakhleh | ... | Self - Interviewee |
Malcolm Nance | ... | Self - Interviewee | |
Barack Obama | ... | Self (archive footage) |
Dirty Wars follows investigative reporter Jeremy Scahill, author of the international bestseller Blackwater, into the hidden world of America's covert wars, from Afghanistan to Yemen, Somalia, and beyond. Part action film and part detective story, Dirty Wars is a gripping journey into one of the most important and underreported stories of our time. What begins as a report on a deadly U.S. night raid in a remote corner of Afghanistan quickly turns into a global investigation of the secretive and powerful Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC). As Scahill digs deeper into the activities of JSOC, he is pulled into a world of covert operations unknown to the public and carried out across the globe by men who do not exist on paper and will never appear before Congress. In military jargon, JSOC teams "find, fix, and finish" their targets, who are selected through a secret process. No target is off limits for the "kill list," including U.S. citizens. Written by Anonymous
Add "Dirty Wars" to the list of movies that make me depressed to be an American.
Investigative reporter Jeremy Scahill plunges into the shadowy world of American strategic ops initiatives around the world, and the results, while not exactly surprising, are certainly chilling. What he finds are instances of American forces randomly going into obscure parts of the world and carrying out attacks that are as likely to kill innocent women and children as they are any people actively trying to do America any harm. At the center of these operations is a mysterious military unit about which virtually nothing used to be known, until this same unit carried out the assassination of Osama Bin Laden and elevated itself to hero status in the eyes of the American people.
Movies like "Dirty Wars" seem like a necessary evil to me. They bring to light topics that need to be addressed, but at the same time leave me impotently frustrated at my inability to do anything about it.
Grade: A-