Breaking the Silence: Truth and Lies in the War on Terror (2003)

Directors

John Pilger

Cast

John Pilger

The story

The documentary attempts to contrast the proclaimed aims of the war on terror with what Pilger sees as the humanitarian failures in countries such as Afghanistan and Iraq. It asserts that the Afghan mujahideen and Afghan Arabs including Osama bin Laden, from which later both the Taliban and Al Qaeda were created, received support from the United States and from Britain's MI6. Pilger alleges that President Jimmy Carter authorised a five-hundred-million dollar programme to help set up the native Afghan mujahideen, starting as early as six months prior to the Soviet invasion into Afghanistan.

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