A new movie illustrating the 2011 raid that killed Osama bin Laden will not include President Obama as one of its characters. Mark Boal, the screenwriter of Zero Dark Thirty, insists that there is no political agenda in the film but that it is in fact a study of those who worked behind the scenes [...]
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