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In the headline of an article published on its web site today, MSNBC asks the question, Did Morgan Spurlock find Osama bin Laden? According to the article, the film maker who gained fame for his 2004 film, Super Size Me, is making just such a claim.
Furthermore, MSNBC reports, Morgan Spurlock has sold the rights to a film which documents his trek into Southwest Asia which resulted in him locating the alleged mastermind of the Islamic terrorist group known as Al-Qaeda.
That, my friends, is quite a claim, especially when one considers the fact that members of the United States defense and intelligence communities have, for some six years, devoted vast human and technological resources toward reaching the same goal.
When one considers how Spurlock likely accomplished his feat and who might benefit from it, the claim becomes more believable and prompts me to ask and answer several questions:
- How might Spurlock have accomplished this feat? Only with help from allies of bin Laden.
- Why would allies of bin Laden help a Western film maker locate the most-wanted man in the world — the focus of a worldwide manhunt since Sept. 11, 2001? Because such a discovery, when announced to the world, accomplishes two things for bin Laden: First, it makes Western intelligence and military experts look bad when a non-military, non-government film maker accomplishes what military and intelligence experts supposedly could not; and, second, it strengthens bin Laden’s standing among those adherents to his brand of radical Islam.
As a means of minimizing the negative impact of Spurlock’s effort, I recommend Americans everywhere take shot at making the claim, I FOUND OSAMA BIN LADEN. When they do so, with items like the shirt above, the news value of all such claims will diminish and, in turn, bin Laden will reap fewer benefits from efforts such as those by Spurlock.
7 responses so far ↓
1 » Did Fast-Food Filmmaker Find Osama bin Laden? NoisyRoom.net: Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace. Amelia Earhart // Dec 5, 2007 at 6:51 pm
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2 Rollie Hayes // Dec 7, 2007 at 1:47 pm
“According to the article, the film maker who gained fame for his 2004 film, Super Size Me, is making just such a claim.”
The MSNBC story never says that. Nor has Spurlock. The story talks about “rumors” and “speculation” and a possible publicity ploy. Spurlock is never quoted and has not said anything to this effect. His DP talked about getting “the Holy Grail” but the larger context of his quote suggests he MIGHT have just been referring to the beauty of the footage they shot. That seems like a stretch, and it’s more likely folks are just trying to fan the flames of hype around the film. But to be fair, Spurlock has NOT made such a claim outright.
3 emtoh // Dec 7, 2007 at 6:14 pm
Hello, hello, here, have some strong coffee. OK, awake now?
Could the most lavishly funded intelligence operation in history, backed up by the most powerful military known to man, ever, really be upstaged by Burger-Boy?
You are correct. The answer is no.
If, for some reason, the logical strategies [very sweet carrots, very large sticks] failed to work. Wouldn’t the think-tank crowd, the terrorist-hatin’ super-brains, suggest something like “Let’s hire someone like Morgan Spurlock to find him.” Not Spurlock, someone like him.
Again you are correct. the answer this time is yes.
So, finally, [assuming Spurlock did indeed find OBL, but regardless, really] Why has MS found OBL while the USA’s defense and intelligence goliath not found him? Repeat the essence of the question: “Why have we not found him?”
answer: It would HAVE to be because influential people do not want OBL to be found. Influential people such as those with a long history of doing business with people such as Salem bin Laden and the Saudi aristocracy.
4 hotoffthepress2 // Dec 7, 2007 at 9:59 pm
emtoh — Quite the conspiracy theorist, aren’t ya?
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