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Synopsis: Dirty Wars follows investigative reporter Jeremy Scahill, author of the international bestseller Blackwater, into the hidden world of America's covert wars, from Afghanistan to Yemen, Somalia, and beyond. Part action film and part detective story, Dirty Wars is a gripping journey into one of the most important and underreported stories of our time. What begins as a report on a deadly U.S. night raid in a remote corner of Afghanistan quickly turns into a global investigation of the secretive and powerful Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC). As Scahill digs deeper into the activities of JSOC, he is pulled into a world of covert operations unknown to the public and carried out across the globe by men who do not exist on paper and will never appear before Congress. In military jargon, JSOC teams "find, fix, and finish" their targets, who are selected through a secret process. No target is off limits for the "kill list," including U.S. citizens.
Director(s): Rick Rowley
Production: IFC Films
  Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 10 wins & 6 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.5
Metacritic:
76
Rotten Tomatoes:
84%
NOT RATED
Year:
2013
87 min
$365,604
Website
441 Views


You saw the U.S. Forces

take the bullets

out of the body?

Ja.

They tied our

hands and blindfolded us.

Two people grabbed us.

They pushed us one

by one into the aircraft.

They flew us

to another province.

To Paktika.

So he had just seen his wife

killed by the American forces,

and then he himself was taken

prisoner by the Americans.

What was going through his

head when they took him?

My senses weren't

working at all. I couldn't cry.

I was numb and

didn't feel a thing.

I didn't eat for

three days and nights.

My hands and clothes

were caked with blood.

They didn't give us water

to wash the blood away.

The interrogators had beards

and didn't wear American uniforms.

They had big muscles.

Sometimes they acted nice.

And sometimes

they would shake us.

By the time I got home,

all our dead had

already been buried.

Only my father and my brother were left

at home. I didn't want to live anymore.

I wanted to wear a suicide jacket

and blow myself up

among the Americans.

But my brother and my

father wouldn't let me.

I wanted Jihad

against the Americans.

MOHAMMED DAOUD:

1:
00 AM - FEBRUARY 12, 2010

MOHAMMED DAOUD:

2:
00 PM - FEBRUARY 12, 2010

The family had no idea

what led the Americans

to their home.

MOHAMMED DAOUD:

POLICE COMMANDER, GARDEZ

They had long fought

against the Taliban,

and Daoud was a police commander

who'd been through dozens

of U.S. training programs.

This is my son,

the Police Commander.

Was he Taliban?

They said they had information

that 50 Taliban were here.

But they were all my relatives,

and they worked for the government.

They killed my innocent sons,

daughter, and daughter-in-law.

They had committed no

sin and had no enemies.

As we prepared to leave,

Daoud's granddaughter

spoke to us,

but only later would I know

the meaning of her words.

Daoud's family told

me it was time to go.

The sun sets early

in the mountains,

and the night belongs

to the Taliban.

The gunfire continued,

and it was now obvious

how dangerous,

maybe even reckless

the trip had been.

Mm-hmm.

NATO wasted no time

issuing a report.

They claimed that the

women killed in Gardez

were the victims of a

Taliban honor killing,

bound and gagged

by their own murderous families.

You saw the U.S. Forces

take the bullets

out of the body?

I believed the family,

but that wasn't enough

for me or anyone else.

[Speaking indistinctly]

Who were these men that

stormed into Daoud's home?

And why would they go to

such horrifying lengths

to cover up their actions?

Tamana.

Who did the Americans kill?

They killed my grandfather...

...and Gulalai.

And they killed Agha Abdulnoor.

All right.

Ready? Yeah.

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David Riker

David Riker is an American screenwriter and film director. He is best known for his award-winning film The City (La Ciudad), a neo-realist film about the plight of Latin American immigrants living in New York City. Riker is also the writer and director of The Girl (2012), and the co-writer of the films Sleep Dealer (2008) and Dirty Wars (2013). Born in Boston, Riker moved to Brussels, Belgium, at the age of five, where he attended a French-speaking school. In 1973 his family moved to London, where he studied at The American School.Riker is a graduate of New York University's Graduate Film School where, in 1992, he made his first fictional film, The City (which became "The Puppeteer" story in the feature The City (La Ciudad) (1998)). The short received critical acclaim and, among other accolades, won the Gold Medal for Dramatic Film at the Student Academy Awards and the Student Film Award from the Directors Guild of America. more…

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