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Laura Poitras provides a riveting portrait of Abu Jandal and Salim Hamdan, bodyguard and driver for Osama bin Laden.
di Betsy Sharkey The Los Angeles Times
There is a telling moment about midway through Laura Poitras' riveting new documentary "The Oath," an intimate portrait of Osama bin Laden's former bodyguard, Abu Jandal, and Salim Hamdan, Bin Laden's driver, who spent years jailed at Guantanamo Bay.
By this point in the film, Jandal seems familiar, an articulate and insightful man, cleverly ironic, candid about his Al Qaeda allegiance, a gentle father to his son, a religious man, not the thug his terrorist affiliation would suggest.
And then he lies. [...]
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