and not surprisingly didn't get it......
http://www.stuff.co.nz/inl/common/imageViewer/0,1445,258684,00.jpgMISUNDERSTOOD MOVIE? A scene from Gillo Pontecorvo's 'The Battle of Algiers' courtesy of Rialto Pictures
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The woman, Zohra Drif, knew there would be victims as she left, unnoticed thanks to her European looks, to take refuge in the Casbah old quarter minutes before the early evening blast.
What she could not have known was that her actions and those of her colleagues in the 1954-62 independence war, instead of fading into history, are the subject of unprecedented scrutiny among counter-terror specialists around the world.
The renewed interest is thanks to a decision by the US military in 2003 to screen the classic 1965 film about the war, The Battle of Algiers, for officers preparing for duty in Iraq.
"How to win a battle against terrorism and lose the war of ideas," read a flyer for the film, a dramatized reconstruction of episodes in one of the world's bloodiest post-colonial wars.
If the idea was to understand why people rebel against occupation, Drif now says, the Pentagon's move was a failure.
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