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very very boring day off damn
same here.... feel like sleeping again
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same here.... feel like sleeping again
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bhai hum raat ko soty hai din ko kam kerty hai dayoff ki sham bhari par rahi ai
Bhai I am just not feeling well today --- seems like I didn't sleep all night and need to sleep again
Tum mazaaq kar rahay ho
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Awesome view.
From where it is taken?
Inside the clock tower-
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Black Hawk Down accused of airbrushing history
Email guardian.co.uk, Friday 21 December 2001
Black Hawk Down, the fact-based war movie from director Ridley Scott and producer Jerry Bruckheimer, stands accused of changing the names to protect the guilty. The film tells of heroic American soldiers in 1990s Somalia. But it was revealed this week that the inspiration behind one of the leading characters is currently serving a 30-year sentence for child abuse.
In Black Hawk Down, Ewan McGregor plays the character of Ranger John Grimes as a clean-cut everyman hero. That trouble is that Grimes is merely Ranger John "Stebby" Stebbins in disguise. In June 2000 Stebbins was court-marshalled and later found guilty of assault and rape of a girl under the age of 12.
Mark Bowden, who wrote the Black Hawk Down book and screenplay, this week told the New York Post that he was pressurised by the Pentagon to change Stebbins's name in order to avoid controversy. Bowden refused to do so in the book, but eventually capitulated when writing the screenplay.
Stebbins's ex-wife, for one, is angered by the changes. In a letter to the New York Post, Nora Stebbins wrote that: "[producers] are going to make millions off this film, in which my ex-husband is portrayed as an all-American hero, when the truth is he is not."
Starring McGregor, Josh Hartnett and Tom Sizemore, Black Hawk Down revisits the fraught events of the 1993 Battle of Mogadishu, in which a crack team of American soldiers were stranded behind enemy lines after their helicopter support went down.
"I think it's a very important story that we've told," McGregor insisted earlier this week. The actor has been a fan of the story since he first read Bowden's book. " just couldn't stop turning the pages," he remembered. "I had to keep reminding myself that there were real characters and it really happened."
Black Hawk Down opens in the UK on January 18.
Email guardian.co.uk, Friday 21 December 2001
Black Hawk Down, the fact-based war movie from director Ridley Scott and producer Jerry Bruckheimer, stands accused of changing the names to protect the guilty. The film tells of heroic American soldiers in 1990s Somalia. But it was revealed this week that the inspiration behind one of the leading characters is currently serving a 30-year sentence for child abuse.
In Black Hawk Down, Ewan McGregor plays the character of Ranger John Grimes as a clean-cut everyman hero. That trouble is that Grimes is merely Ranger John "Stebby" Stebbins in disguise. In June 2000 Stebbins was court-marshalled and later found guilty of assault and rape of a girl under the age of 12.
Mark Bowden, who wrote the Black Hawk Down book and screenplay, this week told the New York Post that he was pressurised by the Pentagon to change Stebbins's name in order to avoid controversy. Bowden refused to do so in the book, but eventually capitulated when writing the screenplay.
Stebbins's ex-wife, for one, is angered by the changes. In a letter to the New York Post, Nora Stebbins wrote that: "[producers] are going to make millions off this film, in which my ex-husband is portrayed as an all-American hero, when the truth is he is not."
Starring McGregor, Josh Hartnett and Tom Sizemore, Black Hawk Down revisits the fraught events of the 1993 Battle of Mogadishu, in which a crack team of American soldiers were stranded behind enemy lines after their helicopter support went down.
"I think it's a very important story that we've told," McGregor insisted earlier this week. The actor has been a fan of the story since he first read Bowden's book. " just couldn't stop turning the pages," he remembered. "I had to keep reminding myself that there were real characters and it really happened."
Black Hawk Down opens in the UK on January 18.
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Dear Friends,
I am not in good mood today
Balochistan ke halaat din-ba-din kharab ho rahay hain
and I am very pareshaan
I will vote for anybody who can take care of this sooba
Koi tassali do
We are butchered in much more brutal way in parachinar.
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