"Bin Laden filmmaker sues Michael Moore," from WND, with thanks to EPG:
An Egyptian associate of Osama bin Laden plans to sue American director Michael Moore for allegedly using images of the terror chief in the Bush-bashing film "Fahrenheit 9/11" without permission.Essam Deraz took almost four years getting footage of the head of al-Qaida at training camps in Afghanistan. He's reportedly the only person to capture bin Laden on film in the late 1980s.
"I was the only cameraman with the Arabs," Deraz told London's Sunday Times. "All of those shots of bin Laden talking in the cave, talking into his walkie-talkie, they were all my work.
"I was there from 1986-89 and was in contact with bin Laden on many occasions. I saw him in Peshawar in Pakistan and in Jalalabad in Afghanistan. The film clips in 'Fahrenheit 9/11' – five of them – were mostly shot in March and April 1989.
"I was wounded twice and on one of those occasions bin Laden arranged for me to be taken to hospital in his vehicle. These are the only film clips ever taken that show bin Laden on the battlefield."
Deraz worked for the BBC in the 1970s and says he had no sympathy with al-Qaida, which wasn't in existence when his footage was shot.
"Now I find that Mr. Moore's film is being distributed in America and in other countries and I have received nothing," he told the Times.
Deraz has filed a petition with the Egyptian public attorney, laying a claim to intellectual property rights. He's looking for the film to be confiscated until a financial resolution is reached.
In which country are Muslims being taught the following lessons?
''Everyone who does not embrace Islam is an unbeliever and must be called an unbeliever...One who does not call the Jews and the Christians unbelievers is himself an unbeliever."
''Whoever believes that churches are houses of God...or that what Jews and Christians do constitutes the worship of God...is an infidel."
To offer greetings to a Christian at Christmas -- even to wish ''Happy holidays" -- is ''a practice more loathsome to God...than imbibing liquor, or murder, or fornication."
Jews ''are worse than donkeys." They are the corrupting force ''behind materialism, bestiality, the destruction of the family, and the dissolution of society.
Muslims who convert to another religion ''should be killed because [they] have denied the Koran."
Democracy is ''responsible for all the horrible wars" of the 20th century, and for spreading ''ignorance, moral decadence, and drugs."
If this sounds to you like the kind of fanaticism you might encounter in Saudi Arabia -- where the established creed is Wahhabism, an intolerant and extremist version of Islam -- you're right. Unfortunately, this religious hatred isn't confined to the Arabian peninsula. Thanks to the Saudi government's elaborate campaign to export Wahhabism worldwide, such anti-Christian, anti-Semitic, anti-Western poison can also be found throughout the United States.
Freedom House Report
"SAUDI PUBLICATIONS ON HATE IDEOLOGY FILL AMERICAN MOSQUES"
http://www.freedomhouse.org/religion/pdfdocs/FINAL%20FINAL%20Saudi.pdf
I wonder how Moore likes his "Minutemen" now?
revenge is sweet even for muslims...depriving that camerman of a decent living should speed to moore's heartstrings...who is always for the underdog..except ,I hear tell...for anyone who works for him..
Wouldn't it just beat all if some international court made a judgment for Moore to pay up, and then this Deraz fellow donated the money to a terror-sponsoring Islamic charity?
Now that is why one should never trust a democrat.
Just think of how much this guy eats and you think you will get any money, he also plays a mean game of taquiyya just watch and weep.
My, a tale to tug the heartstrings,eh! And Deraz worked for the BBC -why am I not surprised?? Wonder if the King 'o Flab is going to pay Deraz
as a good Dhimmi ought or badmouth him like George W....Should prove fascinating reading either way.
May that lawsuit last longer, and cost more to both sides, than Jarndyce v. Jarndyce in the Court of Chancery in "Bleak House."
To anybody who says there is no true political debate or popular exchange of diverse ideas in America, you need only answer with two words: "Michael Moore". If you make such a big play of "democracy and free speech" and "land of liberty", why do you act like a bunch of attack dogs on those who prove to the world that this is more than just empty rhetoric?
It does look like Essam Deraz is owed money. However if he is truly a friend of Osama, I'm glad Moore ripped him off.
interesting use of the word "prove"