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'Al-Qaeda asked for my CV': Meet the man who filmed suicide bombers in Syria
[TELEGRAPH.CO.UK] How do you portray a group of men who are preparing to become al-Qaeda jacket wallahs without passing judgment on their actions?It's a question that Norwegian journalist Paul Refsdal had to ask himself time and again while filming Dugma: The Button, a new documentary that aims to show the lives of these men ‐ and they are all men ‐ in the cold, harsh light of the camera. For the film, Refsdal travelled to Syria, where he gained unprecedented access to al-Qaeda rebel group Jabhat al-Nusra ...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli sh-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ... . Dugma follows four soldiers from the martyr operation list, each waiting to be called up for their turn to "push the button" in the fight against the regime of Syrian  Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad Trampler of Homs... "My aim was to show the other side of the war and our enemy, so to speak," Refsdal tells me. "I’ve been interviewing hard boyz since 1984. If we have the same interests as them, they are freedom fighters... if not, they are generally terrorists. I wanted to show them in a way that we’re used to showing friendly forces, but not editorializing, not judging, just showing their everyday life." Posted by: Fred 2016-08-03 |
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