Kill the Messenger (2006 film) explained

Kill the Messenger
Native Name:
Director:	Mathieu Verboud Jean-Robert Viallet
Producer:	Bruno Nahon
Studio:	Zadig productions
Distributor:	Yleisradio
Runtime:	84 minutes
Country:	France

Kill The Messenger (French: Une Femme à Abattre) is a 2006 French documentary film about Sibel Edmonds. An English version was produced in 2007 by SBS Australia.

The documentary focuses on both Ms. Edmonds's personal struggle to expose the criminality that she uncovered while at the FBI, and also the Sept. 11, 2001 tied 'secret' itself - the network of nuclear black-market, narcotics and illegal arms trafficking activities. Interviewees include David Rose,^[1] Philip Giraldi, Daniel Ellsberg, Coleen Rowley and Russell Tice.

U.S. premiere

On September 9, 2009, the film had its U.S. premiere at the 9/11 Film Festival at the Grand Lake Theater in Oakland, California.

See also

• Axis of Evil
• Baghdad or Bust
• Control Room
• My Country, My Country
• War Feels Like War

External links

• • Web site: Kill The Messenger Une Femme A Abattre. justacitizen.com. 2006-09-05.
• Web site: Kill The Messenger A Documentary on State Secrets Privilege & U.S. Whistleblowers. National Security Whistleblowers Coalition. 2006-09-05.
• Web site: Kill The Messenger blog. sibeledmonds.blogspot.com. 2006-09-05.

Notes and References

1. David. Rose. September 2005. An Inconvenient Patriot. Love of country led Sibel Edmonds to become a translator for the F.B.I. following 9/11. But everything changed when she accused a colleague of covering up alleged illicit activity involving Turkish nationals. Fired after sounding the alarm, she's now preparing a Supreme Court appeal—and threatening some very powerful people.. Vanity Fair. https://web.archive.org/web/20060324084943/http://www.vanityfair.com/commentary/content/printables/051003roco01?print=true . 2006-03-24.