A 'Mighty' footnote
I should add that the applause for the film at the CAIR screening was very lackluster; it seemed like it did not go over well. The CAIR rep on the panel also decried the film for showing that "torture's OK... it's never OK." The Pakistani captain in the film, clearly portrayed as a good guy, strings a guy up from the ceiling to find out who kidnapped Daniel Pearl. The movie pretty much makes clear that this is the only way the captain would have gotten the information out of the guy -- particularly as they were racing against the clock to try to get Pearl back alive. (Paramount PR later told me that, in real life, the captain became godfather to Pearl's son.)
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