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Newspaper endorsements swing in Romney's favour
The Wisconsin State Journal has become the latest - and, arguably, most significant - newspaper to endorse Mitt Romney in a key swing state. It backed President Obama in 2008.In an editorial published...
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Seal Team 6: The Raid on Osama bin Laden – first look review
This Harvey Weinstein-produced docudrama borrows from The Hurt Locker and Homeland to give us a grisly rendition of a decisive moment in the war on terrorThis film is the point at which Harvey...
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US Navy Seals punished for giving secrets to Medal of Honor game
Seals alleged to have divulged classified information to the maker of a video game called Medal of Honour: WarfighterSeven members of the secretive Navy Seal Team 6, including one involved in the...
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The Finish: The Killing of Osama bin Laden by Mark Bowden - review
The latest in a long line of al-Qaida books aims to gets inside the mind of Bin Laden's nemesis - Barack ObamaA year and a half after Osama bin Laden's death, some of the idea of him has begun to fade....
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Osama bin Laden death: secret emails give details of burial at sea
Body referred to as 'Fedex package' in cryptic military dispatches arranging disposal of al-Qaida leader's remainsOsama bin Laden was buried at sea from a US warship amid high secrecy that included his...
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Kathryn Bigelow's Zero Dark Thirty triumphs at New York Film Critics Circle...
Drama about the killing of Osama bin Laden won three top prizes, including best film and best directorKathryn Bigelow's film Zero Dark Thirty, about the killing of Osama bin Laden, took a small step...
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Zero Dark Thirty – first look review
Kathryn Bigelow's latest war thriller is a riveting account of the hunt for Bin Laden which imagines a remorseless CIA agent battling dead ends and the doubts of her colleaguesWe think we know about...
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Watch the trailer for Kathryn Bigelow's follow-up to The Hurt Locker - a thriller based on the manhunt for Osama bin Laden
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A Poet and Bin-Laden by Hamid Ismailov – review
Hamid Ismailov's picaresque novel mixes genres and viewpoints to provide a fascinating commentary on Islam and central AsiaIt is easy to see why this novel has not found a mainstream publisher – who...
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Why the CIA isn't so proud of 'Jen', the operative who tracked down Osama
Perhaps it's something to do with her demanding more credit for getting the al-Qaida leader – and being the focus of Kathryn Bigelow's latest movieAge: Thirtysomething.Appearance: Classified.What d'you...
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Zero Dark Thirty is not pro-torture, say film-makers
Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal defend inclusion of waterboarding scene in film about hunt for Osama bin LadenThe Oscar-winning team behind a film about the decade-long hunt for Osama bin Laden, Zero...
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Zero Dark Thirty's torture problem is ours as much as the film-makers'
Critics, Cheney apologists and liberals are at each others' throats, but film needs the scenes – as inaccurate as they are"I'm betting that Dick Cheney will love the new movie Zero Dark Thirty," wrote...
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Zero Dark Thirty: CIA hagiography, pernicious propaganda | Glenn Greenwald
As it turns out, the film as a political statement is worse than even its harshest early critics warned(updated below)I've now seen "Zero Dark Thirty". Before getting to that: the controversy triggered...
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Valerie Plame welcomes new breed of fictional female spy in Zero Dark Thirty
Former CIA agent exposed in 2003 praises emergence of heroine 'whose most important weapon is her intellect'The heroine of Kathryn Bigelow's controversial new movie Zero Dark Thirty stands out for her...
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Code Name: Geronimo – review
Using the name of the great Native-American hero Geronimo either for the operation that tracked down Osama bin Laden to his hiding place in Pakistan, or for the al-Qaida leader himself, was an...
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John McCain criticises Zero Dark Thirty's depiction of torture
Former Republican presidential candidate says Kathryn Bigelow's film about hunt for Bin Laden is 'grossly inaccurate'The former presidential candidate John McCain is one of three US senators who have...
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The truth about Zero Dark Thirty: this torture fantasy degrades us all |...
Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal's film claims to be 'based on a true story' but no non-fiction writer could take such libertiesZero Dark Thirty is a dreary and predictable movie (predictable even beyond...
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Kathryn Bigelow: drama queen who captured Osama | Observer profile
As an action woman in a medium ruled by men, the Oscar-winning director has always bucked convention. But does her new film about the hunt for Bin Laden defend the use of torture?Next month, the new...
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A letter to Kathryn Bigelow on Zero Dark Thirty's apology for torture | Naomi...
By peddling the lie that CIA detentions led to Bin Laden's killing, you have become a Leni Riefenstahl-like propagandist of tortureDear Kathryn Bigelow,The Hurt Locker was a beautiful, brave film; many...
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Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal respond to Zero Dark Thirty torture row
Depicting torture is not same as endorsing it, say film-makers as they accept prizes at New York Film Critics Circle awardThe makers of Zero Dark Thirty, the Oscar-tipped film about the decade-long...
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