Tuesday, October 10, 2006

How to kill Americans (a short film)

My friend and mentor (Cemendtaur) has done an inspirational piece of work on the Lodi arrests. Please see this very important short documentary. On one hand it shows how the FBI forges ahead with their bullshit and on the other hand, it shows the power of one man's personal Jihad to know the truth.

----The Preemptive War Within; The FBI's Jihad

Reports suggest that after the terrorist attacks on September 11,2001, Attorney General Ashcroft summoned his intelligence people andtold them to do everything possible to prevent further acts of terrorism.

The government started pouring money into anti-terrorism operations,and amongst other efforts, informants were recruited and sent toMuslim communities around the country. These undercover FBI agentswere paid handsomely to produce results.

One such spy went to Lodi, California, and made friends with theinsular, agricultural and working-class Pakistani community in thatrural town. Most of the members of the Lodi Pakistani community were alarmed by the anti-American rhetoric of the newcomer...23- year oldHamid Hayat was not one of them.

The short film being introduced tries to shine some new light on theground realities of the Hamid Hayat case, including a visit toBehboudi, the small village in Northern Pakistan that is Hamid'sancestral home and where, the FBI says, he went to learn...

How to Kill Americans
http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=jq9GyvDN6QI

----Cemendtaur, the artist behind this project and himself born inPakistan, is based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Other work from hispen and camera can be seen at http://KarachiPhoto Blog.blogspot. com; hecan be reached at Cemendtaur@yahoo. com

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