Post by hibbiejim on Oct 9, 2019 19:18:59 GMT
The Day Shall Come is a new film by Chris Morris.
He's the geezer who made the film Four Lions about a group of would be jihadis.
If you haven't seen it you should try to see it. It is very very funny.
Anyway The Day Shall Come is based on stories of real supposed jihadis who are going to go to war with America.
Except American security services created them.
Here's a couple of true examples of fake terrorists.........
"The film’s most obvious reference point is the “Liberty City Seven”, a group of black Catholics who were arrested in 2006 for planning to “blow up” the Sears Tower in Chicago, and to wage what the then attorney general Alberto Gonzalez called “a full ground war on the United States”.
That planned “ground war” in full:
the men intended to ride into Chicago on horses and somehow collapse the tower into the river, drowning the city in the ensuing tidal wave.
Except they didn’t have any explosives. They didn’t even have any horses.
What they did have was money, offered to them by two “al-Qaeda operatives” who turned out to be FBI informants.
The ringleader Narseal Batiste – “Brother Naz” – told investigators he played along with the informants to get $50,000 for the group, described by the academic Juan Cole as “just a local African-American cult which mixed Judaism, Christianity and (a little bit of) Islam” and then vice president Dick Cheney as a “very real threat”.
After two mistrials caused by deadlocked juries, the FBI got lucky: at the third trial in 2009, Batiste was sentenced to 13 and a half years in prison, followed by 35 years of supervised release.
Four of his comrades – Brother Pat, Brother Sunni, Brother Rot and Brother B – received sentences of between seven and ten years.
It was hailed as a victory for George W Bush’s “war on terror”.
The informants Morris met were similarly exotic: “One was a massive meat refrigerator of a man who dressed as a sheikh in a mosque where everyone else wore suits and smart casuals,” he tells me.
“He muttered random ‘attack’ words in a sinister low voice at barbecues.”
That approach did not prompt the mosque’s attendees to confess their plans for jihad.
Instead, they reported him to the authorities as a potential threat.
Morris says another informant showed him “how to pretend you’re snorting a line of cocaine – a useful trick if you’re undercover, except in his case he spilled the powder all over his trousers and acted so ludicrously ‘high’ he actually went cross-eyed”.
Behold the front line of America’s war on terror."
www.newstatesman.com/culture/film/2019/10/chris-morris-his-new-terrorism-satire-day-shall-com
Four Lions trailer
He's the geezer who made the film Four Lions about a group of would be jihadis.
If you haven't seen it you should try to see it. It is very very funny.
Anyway The Day Shall Come is based on stories of real supposed jihadis who are going to go to war with America.
Except American security services created them.
Here's a couple of true examples of fake terrorists.........
"The film’s most obvious reference point is the “Liberty City Seven”, a group of black Catholics who were arrested in 2006 for planning to “blow up” the Sears Tower in Chicago, and to wage what the then attorney general Alberto Gonzalez called “a full ground war on the United States”.
That planned “ground war” in full:
the men intended to ride into Chicago on horses and somehow collapse the tower into the river, drowning the city in the ensuing tidal wave.
Except they didn’t have any explosives. They didn’t even have any horses.
What they did have was money, offered to them by two “al-Qaeda operatives” who turned out to be FBI informants.
The ringleader Narseal Batiste – “Brother Naz” – told investigators he played along with the informants to get $50,000 for the group, described by the academic Juan Cole as “just a local African-American cult which mixed Judaism, Christianity and (a little bit of) Islam” and then vice president Dick Cheney as a “very real threat”.
After two mistrials caused by deadlocked juries, the FBI got lucky: at the third trial in 2009, Batiste was sentenced to 13 and a half years in prison, followed by 35 years of supervised release.
Four of his comrades – Brother Pat, Brother Sunni, Brother Rot and Brother B – received sentences of between seven and ten years.
It was hailed as a victory for George W Bush’s “war on terror”.
The informants Morris met were similarly exotic: “One was a massive meat refrigerator of a man who dressed as a sheikh in a mosque where everyone else wore suits and smart casuals,” he tells me.
“He muttered random ‘attack’ words in a sinister low voice at barbecues.”
That approach did not prompt the mosque’s attendees to confess their plans for jihad.
Instead, they reported him to the authorities as a potential threat.
Morris says another informant showed him “how to pretend you’re snorting a line of cocaine – a useful trick if you’re undercover, except in his case he spilled the powder all over his trousers and acted so ludicrously ‘high’ he actually went cross-eyed”.
Behold the front line of America’s war on terror."
www.newstatesman.com/culture/film/2019/10/chris-morris-his-new-terrorism-satire-day-shall-com
Four Lions trailer