Documentarian kept quiet after filming U.S. soldiers abusing Iraqis

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Filmmaker Michael Moore said Friday he wasn't sure he did the right thing by saving footage of U.S. American soldiers' cruelty toward Iraqis for his controversial documentary, "Fahrenheit 9/11,'' instead of releasing the evidence earlier when it might have helped halt such abuse.

"I had it months before the story broke on '60 Minutes,' and I really struggled with what to do with it,'' Moore said in a telephone interview with The Chronicle. "I wanted to come out with it sooner, but I thought I'd be accused of just putting this out for publicity for my movie. That prevented me from making maybe the right decision.''

The footage, eerily similar to film of the atrocities at Abu Ghraib prison, shows GIs laughing as they snap photos of each other putting hoods over Iraqi detainees.

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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/06/13/MNG2K75D7S1.DTL

[w13rd0]

1. Well, the accusations weren't new...

...just the proof. In Afhanistan, Dostums thugs beat and were going to kill one journalist who had footage of the container kills. I wasn't expecting Bush's orders to MPs and MI to change from Afghanistan to Iraq. Atrocities are AOK as long as they're "christian" atrocities in Bush's command.