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...which he spent 30 days eating nothing but McDonald's food, Morgan Spurlock is about to release his second feature film. This one's about his search for the most wanted man on earth. The filmmaker forgoes fast-food binges for another type of physical danger: searching for Osama bin Laden. In an interview with TIME, Spurlock opens up about his quest...
...TIME: Why do you care about Osama bin Laden...
...been going on for two years. I think another tape came out somewhere around then, or a video, and suddenly on every news station people were saying, "Why hasn?t this guy been brought to justice?" "Why haven?t we found him?" "Where in the world is Osama bin Laden?" And I was like, that?s a great question. That?s something that I think everybody would like to get an answer...
...think there are so many things in the world that helped create Osama bin Laden. I think that?s what you start to see over the course of the movie [is ]what pushed people toward admiring or wanting to follow an Osama bin Laden: dictatorships in Middle Eastern countries oppress their people, extreme poverty and lack of access to health and education, people who feel like they?re being oppressed by their own countries. Michael F. Scheuer, who?s the former head of the Bin Laden unit of the CIA, said something very smart and eloquent, which was, what these...
...When both the Attorney General and the SFO's Wardle resisted BAE's request for lenience, the Saudis turned up the heat. In 2006, the judgment states, Prince Bandar bin Sultan, the former Saudi Ambassador to Washington, warned Jonathan Powell, Tony Blair's then-chief of staff, to shelve the investigation. Failure to do so, the Prince threatened, would weaken intelligence cooperation and wreck a $40 billion deal for BAE to supply Eurofighter Typhoon jets to the Saudis. Soon after government ministers made Wardle aware of the threat, the SFO's boss agreed to drop the case. "The Director...