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...most dangerous and at least the most frightened I was over the course of the trip was probably when we were embedded with the troops in Afghanistan. These guys are targets. Al-Qaeda targets them. Taliban targets them. The week before we got to the base where were staying, there was a mortar attack on the base. There was a Taliban ambush on the governor?s convoy. There?s so many things that at any moment these guys could suddenly become target practice. That?s a scary place to be. You?re protected and you feel safe...
...headline-making but often entertaining docu-travelogue Where in the World Is Osama bin Laden? (henceforth acronymed as WITWIOBL), Spurlock resolves to comb the Islamic world in an attempt to locate al-Qaeda's CEO. Taking a cue from Hollywood action movies - that in impossible missions, where armies and statecraft fail, one lone hero can succeed - he travels to Egypt, Israel, Palestine, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan and Pakistan, speaking to and occasionally learning from street vendors, pundits, schoolkids, government officials and U.S. soldiers. To most of them he poses the simple question that is the movie's title. Will anyone...
...WITWIOBL Spurlock hears thoughtful comments from people who've lived under the scythe of war all their lives. A young Palestinian man laments that "9/11 legitimized the American presence in the Middle East" and insists that "We are fighting to make our homeland. It's none of their [al-Qaeda's] business." An Israeli journalist, discussing the Palestinian problem, mourns that "We're being held hostage by extremists from both sides." In Afghanistan, one fellow says of OBL, "If we find him, we'll tear him apart." Then Spurlock asks an old man about bin Laden's whereabouts...
...issue is Canada's military role in Afghanistan. Canada is one of 26 NATO countries in the International Security Assistance Force, which is attempting to stabilize Afghanistan and neutralize the Taliban and al-Qaeda. But Canada is one of only a handful of NATO countries that have embraced the task of actual war-fighting. The Canadians, who have 2,500 troops on the ground, have suffered 82 fatalities, a death rate that is higher than the U.S. military's in Iraq. In an increasingly two-tiered NATO alliance, Canada occupies the fighting tier, alongside the U.S., Britain, Denmark...
Perhaps most important, Canadians do not see the Afghan conflict as directly relevant to their own security. Al-Qaeda has never staged an attack on Canadian soil. And although 24 Canadians were among the victims of 9/11 and terrorists were planning to blow up two Air Canada flights in the British terrorism plot of 2006, Canadians worry that fighting alongside the U.S. will increase--not decrease--the risk that they will become a target...