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Control Room

Release Date:January 15, 2004

Running Time:84 min

Genres:Documentary, War

Director

Cast

Samir Khader Josh Rushing Hassan Ibrahim Abdul Jabbar Al-Kubeisi Nabeel Khoury David Shuster Tom Mintier Muafak Tawfik Omar Al-Issawi Jihad Ali Ballout George W. Bush Donald Rumsfeld

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Synopsis

A chronicle which provides a rare window into the international perception of the Iraq War, courtesy of Al Jazeera, the Arab world's most popular news outlet. Roundly criticized by Cabinet members and Pentagon officials for reporting with a pro-Iraqi bias, and strongly condemned for frequently airing civilian causalities as well as footage of American POWs, the station has revealed (and continues to show the world) everything about the Iraq War that the Bush administration did not want it to see.

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