Of course, it can't look good that a top adviser, albeit informal, to a man who possibly could become the 44th President is filming a celluloid love note to an associate of the world's number one terrorist.
Not that the media will make the connection or even ask Obama about it. Why, they're busy playing catch up on the John Edwards story.
MANY Americans are outraged that Salim Hamdan - who was Osama bin Laden's chauffeur before his arrest six years ago - will be out of jail before the end of the year.No doubt America will be portrayed positively by the patriotic Clooney.
But Hamdan's jury of six military officers apparently agreed with Nasser al-Bahri, an al Qaeda operative interviewed by Jonathan Mahler for his book "The Challenge," who called Hamdan "a really naive, simple guy who doesn't know the first thing about jihad and was just tagging along for the job."
"The Challenge" follows Hamdan from the Yemeni slums to bin Laden's compound in Afghanistan to his solitary confinement.
While doing research for the book, Mahler interviewed al-Bahri in a prison in Yemen after the USS Cole bombing in 2000. He also spoke to Hamdan's family in Yemen.
While Mahler declined to comment, a source said al-Bahri was sympathetic to a man he felt was "just a poor, uneducated guy who needed a job in a country with an overwhelmingly high unemployment rate."
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When Hamdan was convicted Wednesday, he cried, fearing life imprisonment. But now he is expected to be freed after five more months at Gitmo to return home to his family in Yemen - or to rejoin al Qaeda.
"The Challenge" has been optioned by George Clooney, who hopes to play Charles Swift - the US Navy officer who helped bring Hamdan's case to the Supreme Court and won a pretrial decision that even terrorists are covered by the Geneva Convention.
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