Tuesday 9 July 2013

America's War on Terror

'Dirty Wars' A Documentary Directed by Rick Rowley


      The Joint Special Operating force or JSOC was started up by the United States government after the failed 1980 rescue mission to Iran. Jeremy Scahill is a jounalist for 'The Nation ' maagazine in the U.S. "This is a story about the seen and the unseen," says Scahill at the start of 'Dirty Wars' which is directed by Rick Rowley.
     The JSOC is a secret arm of the U.S. military. We knew that it helped kill Osama Bin Laden but not too much after that. Now we know thank to Rowley who follows Scahill around the world that the JSOC kills people who are supposed threats to U.S. security.
   A large part of the film focuses on the fate of Anwar Al Awlaki. Al Awkali was a U.S. citizen who later went to Somalia. He was killed there by the JSOC, as was his 16 year-old son, Abdul Rahman. "The drone that killed the boy," says Scahill, "did not just kill him. It vanished him."
    It seems clear that U.S. president Barack Obama is using the JSOC to kill hundreds, if not thousands of people around the world. This film, based on a book of the same name by Scahill,has uncovered the JSOC's dirty deeds. If one day the JSOC is disbanded, then this film will have done its duty. But at this stage of the wars against Islamic fighters, the JSOC goes on its dangerous path, killing many who stand in its way.