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Taxi To The Dark Side

Taxi To The Dark Side

This documentary tells the story of how the US changed its policy about torture after 9/11. It focuses on the innocent that are tortured based on hunches and rewards and not direct evidence founded by the US. For example, one taxi driver was sent to the US military base in Afghanistan by local Afghanistan forces in order to fool the US forces there into believing that the taxi driver was shelling them, in other words a terrorist. The taxi driver was just an innocent passer by and was used by the Afghan forces as a scapegoat to protect the fact that they, the Afghan forces themselves, were in fact the ones shelling the US base there. Sadly, that same taxi driver was brutally tortured to death for simply... Driving his taxi. This documentary does well in bringing together all the happenings since 9/11 and the US' current position on handling intelligence gathering by any means necessary. A must see.

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In 2002, a young cab driver picked up a few passengers near his home in Afghanistan"¦ He never returned. Oscar-nominated director Alex Gibney (Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room) investigates the torture and killing of an innocent Afghani taxi driver in this gripping probe into reckless abuses of government power. Disturbing and incisive, the Academy Award-winner Taxi To The Dark Side incorporates rare and never-before-seen images from inside the Bagram Air Force Base in Afghanistan and Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay prisons into its exposure of the Bush administration's "global war on terror." This stunningly crafted narrative demonstrates how this one man's life and death symbolizes the erosion of our civil rights and how what it means to be an American has changed forever.