“Super-Size Me” Director May Have Found Bin-Laden And Secured Interview
From burgers to Bin Laden: has film-maker found al-Qai’da boss?
The Independent:
By Andrew Gumbel in Los Angeles
Morgan Spurlock, the documentary maker who stuffed himself full to bursting with McDonald’s hamburgers for his break-out film, Super Size Me, couldn’t have asked for a better publicity hook for his new documentary. The word on the street, or rather the internet, is that he’s tracked down Osama bin Laden – succeeding where six years of ostensibly unrelenting efforts by the US military, intelligence services and allies around the world have failed. The whisper went out last week on the website of the cable TV station MSNBC, and has spread like wildfire ever since.
We know his new film is called “Where Is The World Is Osama bin Laden?” We know that the Weinstein brothers snapped up the rights to it at the Berlin Film Festival in February, paying $25m (£ ) after seeing just 15 minutes of edited footage. And we have a quotation from Mr Spurlock’s director of photography, Daniel Marracino, who told Variety over the summer: “We’ve definitely got the Holy Grail.”
From those less than conclusive elements, MSNBC concocted this headline: “Did Morgan Spurlock find Osama bin Laden?” The answer is unknowable, at least until the film gets its first showing at the Sundance Film Festival next month. But Mr Spurlock’s publicist is unlikely to be complaining.
It is not inconceivable that Mr Spurlock was granted an interview with the world’s most wanted man – who has, after all, granted interviews to western journalists in the past, including The Independent on Sunday’s Robert Fisk. US intelligence experts familiar with the part of Pakistan where bin Laden is probably hiding have suggested the problem is not so much knowing where bin Laden is, but how to capture him without getting bogged down in a military quagmire.
Equally, the “Holy Grail” may be something completely different.
Some Spurlock bloggers have pointed out that bin Laden has picked at least one interviewer in the past – Yosri Fouda of Al Jazeera – because he was a personal fan of his work. Could it be that bin Laden saw Super Size Me and enjoyed it?
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Pat, I’ll be back to you on this when I can find the fucking words.
Oh. Remind me again. How many guys have we got looking for him?
Shit
December 9th, 2007 at 2:59 pmLet me ask a moral question here.
December 9th, 2007 at 3:06 pmCould there be some crime for an American finding Bin Laden, not doing anything about it except for making a film for personal gain? Wouldnt you be obligated in that situation to alert someone immediately, go for a gun to shoot the fu*ker or something? maybe there is no precedent for such a thing, i dont know.
Personally, i would have stabbed him in the neck with my pen or something, forget my own safety
Let me ask a better question. Can a film maker find OBL and the CIA can’t? That is the bigger question.
December 9th, 2007 at 3:09 pmthis is mind numbing…
if he found him and did nothing but exploit it for personal gain…roast him for treason.
on a side note, I really doubt some joker did what army special forces, CIA, FBI, and all the military intelligence agencies couldn’t do.
in either case, burn him.
December 9th, 2007 at 3:23 pmHe probably used a muppet character of bin Laden and interviewed the puppet.
December 9th, 2007 at 3:33 pmI believe Military Intel has known to within 2000 meters where BinLaden is for years. The problem is getting in there without killing thousands of “innocent” Pakis. Pakistan is an ally. The road up to BinLaden is littered with hundreds of unburied bodies of dudes goin’ for the reward. They are left to rot as a warning.
It’s sort of like getting Jesse and Frank James out of Roscoe, Missouri.
December 9th, 2007 at 5:13 pmSpurlock is a bullshit artist of the highest caliber. He makes Michael Moore’s bullshit look like cheap shit.
No obl here, move on. Don’t waste your money.
My prediction is a big fat fucking load of goat cum.
December 9th, 2007 at 5:44 pmIf you don’t remember, Spurlock’s show “30 days” did a show in Dearborn MI (ep 103, Muslims and America, June 29, 2005) and it showed Muslims in a favorable light. If Spurlock was seeking fanatics out, and they happen to know what he’s done in the past to help Islam’s image, the interview could EASILY happen without a whole lot of trouble on Spurlock’s part. Why does this say ANYTHING about U.S. efforts to capture OBL? In my personal opinion, it simply doesn’t and to suggest that it does shows a whole lot of ignorance on the part of those who say it. We’ve found OBL before, and I agree with Clyde Conneer’s comment, we will find him again, but that’s NOT the hard part. Dead or alive, Osama is a symbol, and if you kill him in a poor and sloppy manner, you’ll do more damage than good. It’s better to know where he is than to kill him stupidly at this point. And when the time is right “WHA-BAM!”
December 9th, 2007 at 8:08 pmThe wabbit hole is wery wery dweep.
December 9th, 2007 at 9:49 pmEWWW I hate this guy!!! I remember watching a few episodes of his show, 30 Days, and it was just sooooooooo retarded.
December 10th, 2007 at 12:56 amwaterboard his ass to be sure
December 10th, 2007 at 6:26 amCJWarner
He probably used a muppet character of bin Laden and interviewed the puppet.
Achmed the Dead Terrrorist.
December 10th, 2007 at 6:46 ami say shove a tracking bug up MM’s ass and nuke the both of them from orbit.
December 10th, 2007 at 7:36 amAnd the check is in the mail…
December 10th, 2007 at 8:20 amBash,
Goat cum?
December 10th, 2007 at 9:36 am