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His investigation begins with the mysterious tragedy surrounding a night raid in gardez, afghanistan in february 2010. The bearer of these bad tidings, jeremy scahill, who wrote the movie with david riker, is a national security correspondent for the nation and. Narrating with the grim urgency if not the humor of a doomed noir detective, investigative journalist jeremy scahill author of a bestselling book. Throughout dirty wars, he identifies resonances between different experiences and. With gavin abbott, joanne adams, shamshad akhtar, dean ashton. From 19761983, a brutal military junta ruled argentina in what was called the dirty war, when some 10,000 persons were disappeared and human rights abuses were rampant. A courageous and exhaustive examination of the way a number of clandestine campaignsfull of crimes, coverups, and assassinationsbecame the united states main strategy for combating terrorism. When journalist jeremy scahill investigates a raid in afghanistan that has been blamed on the taliban, he discovers it was actually carried out by a secretive us. Dirty wars has a somewhat different tone that scahils book on blackwater. Clean bombs and dirty wars is a wellwritten and necessary look at what airtoground capabilities bring to the joint fight. Dirty war, infamous campaign waged from 1976 to 1983 by argentinas military dictatorship against suspected leftwing political opponents in which an estimated 10,000 to 30,000 citizens were killed, many of whom were disappeared. Dirty war is a single british television drama film, cowritten by lizzie mickery and daniel percival and directed by percival, that first broadcast on bbc one on 26 september 2004.
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