Posted on 05/27/2004 9:26:51 PM PDT by Rennes Templar
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Yahoo News June 1, 2004
LOS ANGELES - Michael Moore (news)'s award-winning documentary "Fahrenheit 9/11" has picked up a U.S. distributor and will hit theaters June 25.
The film will be released by a partnership of Lions Gate Films, IFC Films and the Fellowship Adventure Group, which was formed by Harvey and Bob Weinstein specifically to market Moore's film.
Moore's film, which recently won the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival (news - web sites), criticizes President Bush (news - web sites)'s response to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and connects the Bush family with Osama bin Laden (news - web sites)'s.
The Weinsteins, who run Miramax Films, bought the rights to the movie from The Walt Disney Co., which owns Miramax and refused to distribute "Fahrenheit 9/11."
The Weinstein brothers will personally finance and control distribution and marketing, they said Tuesday.
"I am grateful to them now that everyone who wants to see it will now have the chance to do so," Moore said in a statement.
"On behalf of my stellar cast — GW, Dick, Rummy, Condi and Wolfie — we thank this incredible coalition of the willing for bringing 'Fahrenheit 9/11' to the people."
Disney chief executive Michael Eisner said the company "did not want a film in the middle of the political process" because he believed that theme park and entertainment consumers "do not look for us to take sides."
In a settlement reached last week, the Weinsteins repaid their parent company for all costs of the film to date, estimated at around $6 million. Any profits from the film's distribution that go to Miramax or Disney will be donated to charity.
Here's a scary thought... are we seeing the development of a Communist-Islamist hybrid - in essence, a heresy against the heresy of Islam, which also tips its hat to Marx?
No one will catch on?? Boycott Disney AND Fahrenheit 9-11.
From post # 1717: Berg’s aunt is an American married to an Iraqi by the name of Mustafa al-Muzfar residing in the city of Mosul . . .
From post # 1716: Berg's Jan 4 email: Otherwise, I came to Mosul to meet Moffak Mustaffa Yasin, Mudafer's (my paternal uncle) brother.
Okay, if Berg's aunt (who remains nameless) lived in Mosul, then we can assume Nick's aunt's husband (Madafer) lived in Mosul. But Nick goes to visit Moffak Mustaffa, Mudafer's brother. So where is Mudafer. And colcowgirl's citation from the Asia Africa Intelligence Wire (post #1717) states Berg's aunt was married to Mustafa.
I'm confused by these names.
Where is Nick's uncle????
I think they are in collusion, or have maybe even merged outright. Islamism has all the markings of Bolshevism- a revolutionary vanguard, a radical socialist economic philosophy that rejects finance capitalism, a strategy for winning by destabilizing "infidel" states.
Good morning, Fred. Thanks for the links to your articles. I will print them out and read them over lunch (Pacific time).
I forgot to ping you PD to 1735
How can we find out how Berg's aunt died?
I recall that MB's aunt had married an Iraqi man. Also that she was dead. How was never mentioned.
>>I'm confused by these names. Where is Nick's uncle????
Just about anything goes with Iraqi names. I trust the way NB went into great detail and listed all 3 names of the man he met (minus the tribal name), knowing he might have get someone to vouch for his whereabouts in Mosul.
If 'Mustafa' was their mother's family name and they all had the same mother, then it might be appropriate to list all three brothers as:
Mudafer Mustafa Yasin al-Muzfar,
Moffak Mustafa Yasin al-Muzfar, and
Moyser Mustafa Yasin al-Muzfar.
For a decade or two, Saddam was ordering the tribal names like al-Muzfar to NOT be used. It could be that after his downfall, some persons chose to just give their 1st, 2nd, and tribal(4th) names to a reporter. (Especially if they were sensitive about the strong Yasin family history with the Baathists)
The BBC may have deliberatly shortened the name to "Mustafa al-Muzfar", thinking they were just reporting the mans LAST name. As to where's Waldo... I mean Mudafer... hmmmm... lets see... In Nick's Jan 4 email... He never said. I might surmise Mudafer is NOT currently living in Mosul, or else why would Nick make no attempt to see him, and say nothing else about him in the email. Someone on another site hypothesized Mudafer might be locked up in Abu Gore-reb, or some other prison, but that's a pretty wild guess. ....(or maybe not so wild?) if you assume that most of the Yasin family in Mosul are Baathists.
Nevr fear about the release of the Moore movie....imho I think the Nick Berg case will be exposed right around that time, thus EXPLODING in Fatboy's Fugly Face!! (praying...praying)....is it Christian to pray for Schadenfreude?
OMG!! Aziz said three calls had been made from Nick's cell phone but how did he KNOW if he didn't have Nick's phone?? Geesh...my head is spinning wih tidbts of info!!
It is Christian to pray for justice. Moore does not act on Christian principles. In this case, schadenfreude is justifiable, imo...
What you are saying is that Michael Berg's sister was married to a probable Saddam loyalist (Baathists)?
I was sort of assuming that Mudafer was no longer in Iraq since Nick didn't go out of his way to look him up, but did go all the way to Mosul to look up his uncle's brother. Where in the world is Mudafer?
Ping to post #1,733! If it's true, this case is NOT being investigated enough ..and reported in the media..and it would be nice to know "why".
I didn't mean to infer Aziz had the cell phone itself, but that the account would have been sent to the 'office' they shared. The three telephone calls that were reportedly made could be traced from the numbers on the invoice. (If in fact, any such calls were made.) My interest lies more in the region of any Bank Account that the two, Berg and Aziz made have held as 'business partners' - if Berg gave Duke the impression a large amount of money had been earned - bank records might divulge the source of the funds.
(I guess if there was such an account, it would be well and truly empty by now.)
We continue to ask why all this is not being more deeply investigated. Could it be a matter of priorities and resources? Perhaps when the situation in Iraq is more stable and the new government is in place, more work will be done on this case.
Chez What said that the head was held up on a video that had a time stamp of 1:47, but then the other camera 59 minutes LATER had Berg with his head on....and there were differnt people behind him. Do you have any answers to this....is it TRUE??
If we had the Fed Ex records we would know who was sending stuff to Michael Moore.
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