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General Lloyd Austin with President Barack Obama at MacDill Air Force Base, September 17, 2014. Austin became the commander of CENTCOM on March 22, 2013, after being nominated by President Obama in late 2012. [37] [38] [39] Austin was preceded as CENTCOM commander by General James Mattis, whom Austin would later succeed as secretary of defense ...
Live from Baghdad is a 2002 American television war drama film directed by Mick Jackson and co-written by Robert Wiener, based on Wiener's book of the same title. The film premiered on HBO on December 7, 2002, during the prelude stage of the Iraq War. Michael Keaton stars as Wiener, a CNN on-location producer in Baghdad, Iraq during the Gulf ...
Adhamiyah Palace, which is the backdrop for the documentary, was the scene of the last major firefight during the fall of Baghdad. [2] The palace, which was known as Gunner Palace during its occupation by 2-3rd FA was eventually handed over to the Iraqi Army, except for three buildings which were retained by the following on the unit, Company C, 3-153rd IN and were renamed Patrol Base Apache.
[5] The film project was initially called The Great Question, but the title would later change to A Clash of Loyalties. Mohamed Shukri Jameel, seen at the time as "Iraq's greatest living director", was chosen to direct. [9] Although Iraqi films were now serving nationalist purposes, they were, ironically, still largely co-produced. [8]
Jon Kilik produced the film, which Universal Pictures distributes in the United States. [13] On August 19, 2015, it was reported that Miles Teller was in talks to join the film as Adam Schumann, a soldier who leaves Iraq as a broken man. [8] [9] On October 20, 2015, Haley Bennett was cast to play Schumann's loyal and supportive wife.
The book documented life within the Green Zone in Baghdad during the 2003 invasion of Iraq. [5] The key players in the film are General Mohammed Al-Rawi , who is hiding in Baghdad during the invasion of Iraq, and US Army Chief Warrant Officer Roy Miller , a Mobile Exploitation Team (MET) leader who is searching for Iraqi weapons of mass ...
The film has caused a great deal of critical controversy, mostly over its dealings with the sensitive subject of the Iraq War. The film has also been mentioned/critiqued in notable sources such as Newsweek, Time Magazine, The New Yorker, USA Today, and the New York Times. The film was one of 15 on the Oscar "short list" for the 2007 Academy Awards.
Boys of Abu Ghraib is a 2014 American war film inspired by the events that took place at the Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad, Iraq in 2003, in the background of the Iraq war.It was written and directed by Luke Moran, who co-stars alongside Sean Astin, Omid Abtahi, Sara Paxton, and John Heard.