Stranger than fact

As US military officers acknowledge that military tribunals at Guantanamo Bay may utilise evidence obtained through torture, European filmgoers are responding to the latest blockbuster:

A virulently anti-Semitic film about the Iraq war has provoked a storm of protest in Germany after it sold out to cheering audiences from the country’s 2.5 million-strong Turkish community.

Valley of the Wolves, by the Turkish director Serdan Akar, shows crazed American GIs massacring innocent guests at a wedding party and scenes in which a Jewish surgeon removes organs from Iraqi prisoners in a style reminiscent of the Nazi death camp doctor Joseph Mengele.

Makers of the film deny it is anti-American or anti-Semitic, and claim it is simply anti-war.

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