Documentary provocateur Morgan Spurlock travels to a myriad of Middle Eastern countries including, Israel, Egypt, Morocco, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan and Pakistan in search of the notorious terrorist mastermind, Osama Bin Laden. Each segment is another fascinating look at the peoples and culture clash of the world's most dangerous countries.
Inside all of these exotic destinations, this documentary filmmaker works hard to gauge the region's real feelings towards the United States by interviewing both radicals and moderates. The results are surprising.
Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden? is not just another documentary about how everything is a mess in the Middle East, and how its all America’s fault; this is an inside look at how Islamic Fundamentalism breeds radicalism and how the American Government can appear just as extreme inside their own moral myopia.
Spurlock’s cinematic experiment produces some fascinating insights into the way things really are in the Mid East as he measures the rust on America's tarnished reputation. While wandering the streets of Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Pakistan and Afghanistan, Spurlock interviews the common man, jokingly looking for clues to Bin Laden's whereabouts – and the replies are very interesting!
But the absolute finest sequence of the film features the production crew slowly being surrounded and harassed on the streets of Tel Aviv, to a point where the police respond and rather violently assist Spurlock’s immediate departure.




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Re: Where In The World Is Osama Bin Laden?
By Melkor, May 5, 2008 at 15:12This Morgan Spurlock guy clearly has a death wish. I'm hoping he goes looking for Jaws or black plague next. Or maybe he should experiment with 5 packs a day. Whatever man, kill yourself on your own time.
Re: Where In The World Is Osama Bin Laden?
By johnhatch, May 5, 2008 at 15:10Peace, Bud, and I wish you the very best.
Re: Where In The World Is Osama Bin Laden?
By johnhatch, May 5, 2008 at 13:32Hey Bud,
Like the spurious Warren-like 9-11 Commission, many people deny the true horror of Bush Admin involvement in 9-11 by simply ignoring the elephant in the room. Dialogue becomes impossible.
Of course you can believe anything you like.
Maybe you believe that Oswald acted alone and killed Kennedy with a Mannlicher-Carcano?
Or that Rambo-Jesus is about to rapture you up to heaven?
Or that the Bush/Cheney Administration isn't the most corrupt and vicious in the recent history of the world? And capable of anything?
Here are a couple of links, just two of thousands of persuasive arguments. Given an objective evaluation of the overwhelming body of evidence, any reasonable person would conclude that the Bush/Cheney Administration was involved in 9-11. It's scary, but a sad truth.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8274552561914055825
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/54.html
Re: Where In The World Is Osama Bin Laden?
By Bud Oracle (not verified), May 5, 2008 at 13:40Even though I could barely wait for the warren commission report to come out, It doesn't mean I would automatically believe it. I like how today every one who can say the words WCR pretends to have read that dry tome, but don't even understand the dichotomy between what it proves, and what it claims...
No John I work with the works you gave me as yout contentions of proof of a conspiracy and I did a thorough job of discounting them.
Your insinuations about what I believe have no relevance in the discussion, where you stated obviously easily discredited nonsense. The fact remains you have no real answer to my rational deductions.
Unless one understands these principles of reasoning and rational deductions, they really can't claim to have valid insight in the real world. A sure sign of this is when they are left with a response which snares them.
I never discuss belief, mine, or even mine projected, when the facts point to something else.
You spout belief, John, in nonsense. Don't project your belief's onto me.when we are discussing facts (or what you claimed to be facts)
Peace
Re: Where In The World Is Osama Bin Laden?
By johnhatch, May 5, 2008 at 13:53Hey Bud,
I never offered proof of anything, just serious doubt about the official story. There's no reason to be nasty, Bud. You're supposed to be an Oracle. Couldn't you at least try for a little dispassionate objectivity and good grace? It would look good.
Re: Where In The World Is Osama Bin Laden?
By Bud Oracle (not verified), May 5, 2008 at 14:36I was hoping that you would stay engaged with the objectivity as I tried to do, by proving yuor "serious doubt" added up to the impact of a burp after drinking a coke. sorry.
Both of these statements are designed to incite contention, a very intelligent and civil slice of which you are receiving :
"Maybe you believe that Oswald acted alone and killed Kennedy with a Mannlicher-Carcano?
and
"Couldn't you at least try for a little dispassionate objectivity and good grace? It would look good"
These are both statements of projected judgments. I'm very sensitive to such statements as you can grasp here.
How yo take my answers is up to you as is you response. I don't answer a reasoned point with a projected judgment except on the words and their conclusions. The entity speaking them I don't actually project my judgment on with fantasy statements.
"You may think this is a vitriolic post, and you'd be wrong!" is a statement that I'd have no right making unless you told me this. It is exactly the same as saying something like this to me, "Or that Rambo-Jesus is about to rapture you up to heaven?"
Peace John.
Re: Where In The World Is Osama Bin Laden?
By Bud Oracle (not verified), May 4, 2008 at 13:02John I'll answer you in detail because I believe that this discussion is very import. It's all about what we are marketed to believe as being the truth, OUr perception of an incident can vary greatly because the "facts" can be misconstrued an easily misinterpreted by the non expert..
Right now I'm going out with my Oracle's hat on to trout lake . The white wolf beckons!
Re: Where In The World Is Osama Bin Laden?
By johnhatch, May 4, 2008 at 12:56Hey Bud,
Anything is possible, but:
The Bush Admin had plans to invade Iraq (and maybe other countries) long before 9-11 and was willing to use any pretext to do so. A million or so Iraqis have died. Why not a few thousand Americans?
Members of PNAC also subscribe to the political theories of Leo Strauss, who more or less taught that the great unwashed must be manipulated and lied to ('noble lies') for their own good. It's ok and even desirable to deceive the population for 'highher ends'. This would include killing a few thousand if necessary.
The Bush Admin fought tooth and nail against having any investigation into 9-11, then obstructed the investigators in every manner possible. Bush at first appointed Henry Kissinger to head the commission (I know!).
'Ground Zero' was never treated as a crime scene. Evidence was destroyed as quickly as possible.
Larry Silverstein, WTC leaseholder can be seen on TV stating that he ordered Building Seven 'pulled'. Why was the building already wired with explosives?
Thermate was found at ground Zero. Thermate is a patented form of Thermite, and has only one function- to cut through structural steel in controlled demolitions.
Steel remained molten underground for over a month after the buildings came down. Only something like Thermate or Thermite could achieve such temperatures, never jet fuel.
These points are merely drops in the bucket of evidence pointing to a black op. No one is saying that the perps are necessarily that bright- just ruthless. Just look at Iraq and Afghanistan, and what might be coming in Iran.
Peace.
Re: Where In The World Is Osama Bin Laden?
By Bud Oracle (not verified), May 4, 2008 at 19:29This conclusion, (was willing to use any pretext to do so. A million or so Iraqis have died. Why not a few thousand Americans?) can not be deduced logically from (The Bush Admin had plans to invade Iraq (and maybe other countries) long before 9-11) This is not a valid argument.
Members of PNAC also subscribe to the political theories of Leo Strauss, who more or less taught that the great unwashed must be manipulated and lied to ('noble lies') for their own good. It's ok and even desirable to deceive the population for 'highher ends'. This would include killing a few thousand if necessary.
This is irrelevant as proof for anything.
The Bush Admin fought tooth and nail against having any investigation into 9-11, then obstructed the investigators in every manner possible. Bush at first appointed Henry Kissinger to head the commission (I know!).
This is not proof of any involvement in anything. Just shows a general wish for secrecy because they F’’d up!
'Ground Zero' was never treated as a crime scene. Evidence was destroyed as quickly as possible.
Because we saw, as was recorded on video what brought them down? Crime scene investigation is noot used primarily for convincing doubters but trying to ascertain what happened. We saw what happened
Larry Silverstein, WTC leaseholder can be seen on TV stating that he ordered Building Seven 'pulled'. Why was the building already wired with explosives?
What Larry Silverstein said and meant, does not a conspiracy make. those "explosive squibs" that everyone is going on about can be easily explained by some who understands physics. What if the struture of blg #7 was weakened by the building collapses, as claimed. Now as the internal floor structures collapse, pancaking, causing pressure as each floor folds this blows out at a week point in the walls. This is caused by building design and therefore at the same location on each floor's wall, thereby appearing as if it was a series of explosive demolition sqibs. This is more likely a theory than what these conspiracy theorists are trying to cobble together. Show me one example of brilliant complex strategy carried out by this administration and I would believe you, even if the evidence at ground zero doesn't prove it to me.
Steel remained molten underground for over a month after the buildings came down. Only something like Thermate or Thermite could achieve such temperatures, never jet fuel.
I’m not familiar with the technical material, but I have had some experience with molten steel at the Open Heart in Stelco. Molten steel stays hot for a long time. If you think jet fuel was the cause of the heat and energy that brought the building down you don’t understand the first thing about F=MA you wouldn’t have a clue as to the energy transfers involved and not capable of making a judgment on these technical matters.
These points are merely drops in the bucket of evidence pointing to a black op
You haven’t made a single point. This is how a fantasy is marketed through rumor and supposition by those unqualified to make any judgments.
Re: Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden?
By johnhatch, May 4, 2008 at 11:46It's a curious matter.
The Bin Laden family has serious financial ties to the Carlyle Group (arms dealing etc). Poppy Bush is a member of their board of Directors.
On 9-12 while American travellers were stranded all over the world, the only American flights allowed in the air were Bin Ladens and entourage going back to Saudia Arabia.
Bush Junior famously promised to catch the varmint 'dead or alive', but then said the FBI's most wanted, wasn't.
Bin Laden's first statement regarding 9-11 disavowed any involvement. Patently fake tapes later appeared in which he did take responsibility.
The FBI admitted it had absolutely no evidence that Bin Laden had anything to do with 9-11.
The Bush Administration was offered a handover of Bin Laden three times. They declined. They could easily have captured or killed him at Tora Bora. They declined.
9-11 was a false flag black op. Bin Laden is no pal of the US, but he didn't sneak over from his cave and plant controlled demolition explosives in the Twin Towers and Building Seven.
The real varmints are Dick Cheney and members of the Project for a new American Century. They wanted a 'new Pearl Harbor Event' and got it. Qui Bono?
Re: Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden?
By Bud Oracle (not verified), May 4, 2008 at 12:35There are many reasons why I will not buy into this theory and if you want a few more than these I can come up with them. i ALSO UNDERSTAND THE PHYSICS OF SUCH IMPACT f=ma These are my own.
If the primary goal was to unite America behind the march into Iraq, a more convenient and logical scapegoat to frame would have been Saddam himself, not Osama.
The other thing was that silly little opportunity to take up the theme of Uniting America, which was totally lost. If the administration were really masterminds, scheming large intricate plots, rather than the picture of GWB sitting in the Kindergarten, class blank to the world after he received the news of 911, then why didn't they use the opportunity of the Mohamed cartoons to ignite a true anti arab uprising? Americans would have clamored for a nuclear strike. Being a producer you should know that opportunity is everything, if you jump on it. Carpe Diem!
If this Oracle had been listened to (I blogged this on Bloggit art the time it occurred), my strategy would have worked a thousand times better than taking down sky scrapers and killing your own citizens . I would have trained some CIA operatives, to draw large size cartoons of Mohamed and then had them execute a clandestine harassment of the ARAB community, not your own citizens. I think that a few dozen such 18 foot cartoons on Mosques, Arab Cultural centers thoughout the USA would do the trick in stirring up this volatile hornets nest.. THE AMERICAN GRASSROOTS REACTION TO THESE HOT MUSLIM DEMONSTRATIONS WOULD BE INTERESTING.
Think about the possible payoff and the virtual zero risk. What could be the maximum charge if discovered painting graffiti? Certainly not mass murder of your own citizens.
Plainly to me, that because this administration passed up such a golden opportunity to achieve its supposed nefarious goals, of uniting its citizens against the enemy, it is way to dumb to have engineered such a complex plan as to sabotage of the WTT, and KEEP IT SECRET. .
Re: Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden?
By Bud Oracle (not verified), May 3, 2008 at 19:15Too bad Morgan Spurlock, didn't ask me if I knew where Obama was because I could tell him, He's working as a security guard at Main and Kingsway, graveyard shift. I know for sure because I see him carrying his trusty AK47 and there is a stinger missile launcher near where he stands.
This reminds me of a short story of mine about a rogue guerrilla grower/drug smuggler in the wilds of BC.
"The Hunt for Ed Locktoker" a lively tale of backstabbing and revenge.
Hey, wait a minute isn't that why Osama claims that he is attacking America, Backstabbing & Revenge?