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.
Why would anyone expect them to say anything different?
You mean the ‘US military officers’? They could hardly say otherwise, could they?
Hope we can see the film. If we can’t, the terrorists have won (smiley face icon here) Maybe it will be exaggerated and racist, but the roles being reversed for a change ought to be refreshing.
The military officers did not state that information derived from torture would be used. basically they told the Lawyers that their definitions were not meaningful.
You can not expect the fim makers top admit to their bigotry. Sorry if the statement confused you, it was not my intent.
I agree that images of a Jewish fdoctor remving organs is highly suggestive of a Mengele architype. These film makers cannto possibly suggest that this was a coincidence.
The Pentagon has been arguing for quote some time that informstion extrated from a totured susoect cna be used in a court of law. The Blair government has made the same case. This is hardly news.
Canadian detianee, Maher Arrar, who was released last year, sated that when he hsi interrogators had finished with hi, he would have singed anything. In fact , in an interview this week, he stated that he woudl sign any confession at even the though of being re-enterrogated.
In the end, it largely comes downw to the word ofthe detaineee and his captors. Rumsfeld seems to think he can continue to keeo a stright face and deny that toture takes place an Gunatanamo. In fact, he is maintaining that reports of toture at Gitmo are an abberation created by AQaeda.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/03/04/wguan04.xml&sSheet=/news/2006/03/04/ixworld.html
The guy clearly lives inside a time capsule.
Rummy - the hero of the crowd over at Tim Blair. See if you work for big W, (and therefore) an idiot, speak in tongues and fuck up arabs there’s a lot going for you.
Chris Mar 5th, 2006 at 12:54 pm
You’re right. Everyone knows that “information” obtained under torture is meaningless. No - as far as the evidence available goes, the torture is purely for purely evil recreational purposes.
Yeah, suuuuure. Associating any ethnic-representative with Josef Mengele is a priori to be out-and-out racist. Revolting.
“Rummy - the hero of the crowd over at Tim Blair. ”
Interesting isn’t it Orang? If we we to have a competitino to see who has made the most assinine comments, and in the greater number, it would be a close contest bewteen Rummy and Bush. Rummy would probably win thoguh seeing a he get’s bonus points for making more Orwellian statements.
Obviously over on planet Blair, that is a highly respected trait.