TIL Morgan Spurlock Made A Movie About Hunting bin Laden That Was Later Found In The House bin Laden Died In

(Wiki) "After some comical animations involving Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, the film shows Spurlock visiting various countries associated with or affected by Bin Laden. The film contains short interviews with many people about Bin Laden and Islamic fundamentalism, and about the United States and its war on terror. Supposedly, Spurlock searches for Bin Laden, and he even asks people at random in the street where he is.

Spurlock is shown hesitating to enter the area of Pakistan near the Afghan border where Bin Laden is at the time, which is closed to foreigners, and deciding not to go there, arguing that it is not worth the risk. He concludes that the people in the countries he visited are ordinary people just like himself and the audience."

I wouldn't call myself a Morgan Spurlock afficianado by any means, but I really would have thought this movie would have came across my desk before. We recently reviewed 'Super Size Me 2: Holy Chicken!' on LCB which makes it even weirder that it didn't stand out to any of is when we checked out his IMDB. Here is the trailer.

Boy does this look terrible! You might think based off some of the material that this movie would be about, you know, hunting bin Laden. Nope, looks like it was basically this ginger dude walking up to a bunch of random people in the Middle East if they know where bin Laden's at. The best part about this movie, though, is this little piece of trivia.

That's right. In Osama's presumably expansive DVD shelf, this Spurlock banger was front and center ahead of "Shanghai Knights" and "Nip/Tuck" seasons 1-3. The question this raises for me, though, is if Morgan Spurlock compromised the hunt for one of the worst villains in modern history.

"In Afghanistan, guarded by about 21 Afghan soldiers, he visits Tora Bora. A local government official is shown who wants to change it into an amusement park. Spurlock is also shown on a US Army patrol as an embedded journalist."

In essence, Spurlock gave bin Laden a research film see how the U.S. was trying to find him. Does this make him a traitor to the union? I'm not saying it, but many are. 

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