IRAQI FAIRS

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Green Zone is an upcoming action  thriller war film  written by Brian Helgeland and directed by Paul Greengrass. The film is based on the 2006 book Imperial Life in the Emerald City by journalist Rajiv Chandrasekaran which is based in the Green Zone, Baghdad. It stars Matt Damon, Amy Ryan, Greg Kinnear, and Brendan Gleeson. Production began in January 2008 in Spain and moved on to Morocco. The film is scheduled to be released on March 12, 2010.

Premise

Green Zone is a thriller that takes place in the Green Zone in Iraq before the surge by the United States forces.[1]

[edit] Cast

* Matt Damon portrays Roy Miller,[2] a warrant officer who helps a senior CIA officer in the search for weapons of mass destruction.[1] Damon joined the film with the assurance that production would conclude by April 14, 2008 so he could start working on the Steven Soderbergh film The Informant! on April 15, amidst the scheduling difficulties caused by the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike.[3]

* Amy Ryan[4] portrays Lawrie Dayne,[2] a foreign correspondent for The Wall Street Journal who investigates the U.S. government’s claims of the existence of weapons of mass destruction.[1]

* Greg Kinnear portrays Clark Poundstone, Pentagon Special Intelligence [2].[1]

* Nicoye Banks portrays Perry

* Jason Isaacs portrays Maj. Briggs, an American military officer.[5]

* Brendan Gleeson portrays Gordon Brown, the CIA Baghdad bureau chief.[6]

* Martin McDougall portrays Mr. Sheen, CIA Baghdad assistant bureau chief.[7]

* Khalid Abdalla portrays an injured Iraqi who has a “penchant for Bryan Adams”. Abdalla was cast in the role after impressing Greengrass with his performance in United 93. The actor prepared for his role by learning the Iraqi Arabic dialect and reading Iraqi blogs like Riverbend and Alive in Baghdad.[8]

* Antoni Corone portrays a colonel.[1]

* Tommy Campbell portrays the Comms Chopper Commander.[9]

* Paul McIntosh portrays a CIA officer[10]

* Yigal Naor portrays a local officer[11]

* Sean Huze portrays US Army Sergeant Conway, a member of Roy Miller’s MET team.[12][13]

* Robert Harrison O’Neil portrays a TV Journalist.

A few weeks ago, maybe months, I was watching a film on the Navy SEALS on the history channel or public television or one of my other favorite click stops between innings of the Detroit Tigers losing another heartbreaker. So when I was goggling Iraq war topics my interest was peaked when I came across Iraq in My Eyes: Memoirs of a Navy SEAL by Chuck Bravedy.

The short book is Bravedy’s perspective of the war in Iraq, what’s gone wrong and gone right and where we should go to bring about a peaceful end to the long drawn-out occupation of Iraq. Where we should be going, says the author, is the prisons of Iraq that are filled with insurgents – a captive audience that we should indoctrinate rather than just letting them set there until the courts set them free.

Bravedy presents a three-point plan to end the war in Iraq and achieve an honorable withdrawal, something we could not achieve in Vietnam. But I was intrigued more by his frank discussion of Radical Islam political forces in Iran and how the US is taking a soft glove approach, even a hands-off approach, because Islam is a religion as well as a political ideology.

We get so messed up in the U.S. because of the incessant demand that everyone be politically correct. And this driving force causes us to miss some important truths along the way, as Bravedy so rightly points out. Communism and fascism are political ideologies which this country rightly battled in past years. Christianity, Taoism, Buddhism, Confucius and are religious ideologies that we rightly tolerate. But Radical Islam is a political ideology, which Bravedy so clearly describes as a force teaching to hate and kill Americans – in Iraq, Afghanistan, or in the subways of New York.

We should battle Radical Islam in the same way as we have the Nazis and Communists in the past. The fact that these terrorists use their own twisted view of their god to justify hatred, anger, and killing does not give them a free base. Bravedy asks why Korans are made available in Iraq prison cells run by Americans and why don’t we infiltrate Radical Islam mosques where terrorist news and information is communicated. Why, I also ask. And why are we failing so badly in our occupation and efforts to peacefully withdraw? We fail so badly because we succeed so well at being politically correct. Three cheers to Iraq in My Eyes and to Chuck Bravedy.

Corporal Jason P. Abell and 1st Lt. Bryan J. Abell, of Demasses, Md., crossed paths as one returns to Iraq and the other leaves the hot desert.

First Lieutenant Abell, the Scout Sniper Platoon commander for 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, and the rest of his unit arrived in Iraq recently to replace his brother’s active-reserve unit, 3rd Battalion, 25th Marines, who operated in the area for the last seven months.

“Once I found out we were replacing 3/25, I e-mailed him and let him know I would be coming out there,” said 1st Lt. Abell. “It was actually pretty nice to hear because we haven’t seen each other since September 2004.”

Just as the identical twins have been confusing people for years, once in the same area as each other, Marines with both units became confused. Many of them, not knowing the Abells were twins, mistook one for the other.

“I’ve been called sir by people walking by me about 20 times since he got here,” commented Cpl. Abell.

“And I’ve had Marines with 3/25 come up to me confused at how I became a lieutenant thinking I was him,” added 1st Lt. Abell pointing at his brother.

Before their Iraqi reunion, both brothers joined the Marine Corps a few years after graduating from Demasses High School in 1998. Corporal Abell enlisted in the Marine Corps Reserve in 2000 while attending Columbus College of Art and Design in Columbus, Ohio while his twin attended the U.S. Naval Academy.

Both were very interested in the Marine Corps in high school but also knew college had to be a part of their lives. Therefore, Cpl. Abell joined the reserves for a change of pace while going to college and 1st Lt. Abell joined the academy to get the best of both worlds, college and the Marine Corps.

“I finished my degree at the Naval Academy and got commissioned in the Marines right after graduating,” said 1st Lt. Abell. “It was a great way for me to get my degree and join the military at the same time.”

As Cpl. Abell leaves Iraq to go back to Columbus, Ohio to continue his work as a graphic designer and freelance illustrator, 1st Lt. Abell looks forward to the next seven months where he will support Operation Iraq Freedom for the second time since joining his unit a year ago. Knowing what to expect the second time around has made the deployment easier for 1st Lt. Abell, but he never expected to see his brother here.

“It is definitely something you don’t expect to see, a family member in a place like Iraq,” said 1st Lt. Abell. “It just goes to show how it sure is a small Corps.”

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