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I was in the military, and I never heard "zero dark thirty" used to refer specifically to It's slang for any obscenely early time in the morning. Just to clarify: I do think that this is the correct answer, in the sense that it directly relays what Bigelow meant with the title.
However, I still believe that she herself got mixed up about the meaning of the term "zero dark thirty. He even indicates in a note that the term was used with the meaning that I'm familiar with as early as the s, when he served. However, director Kathryn Bigelow shows that it can be done effectively if you take your sweet time establishing, and then grounding your vision. More on that later. Bin Laden was shot to death during the much-talked-about night raid of his compound in Pakistan on May 2, It is her story and her character arc that we follow, which I was fine with.
Because that is how the director and the writer condensed this broad stroke of history into a feature film. What I had issues with were the little inconsistencies that Maya made. She is, for the most part, shown as a strong, silent woman who per cent believes in her findings and stands by it. The focus of the scene was that there were three women in the house meaning that there had to be at least three men, one of whom was never seen. Nothing said that there couldn't be more than three. SSE is sensitive site exploitation.
NATO forces in Afghanistan developed the technique of taking pictures and gathering weapons, documents, computer files etc from the aftermath of raids in order to disprove any later claims that the terrorists they had killed were unarmed civilians. It also provided valuable intelligence; terrorists the world over are notorious for keeping extensive records for everything they do.
Britain made progress against the IRA in the s because the security forces captured so many of IRA leader Michael Collins' documents they had to create an entire department to read them all. In Vietnam, the Allies captured up to half a million documents a month from the Viet Cong allowing them to anticipate and largely thwart the famous Tet offensive.
Killing Osama bin Laden himself was not nearly as important as capturing the huge number of records on his organisation he kept in the house. Yes and no. All the attacks depicted in the film are based on real events but they are strung together as a connected narrative for the sake of the story; e. The scene where the CIA agents in Pakistan are accosted by two armed men on motorbikes is based on a genuine incident but in real life the CIA officer killed them both. In , the Senate Intelligence Committee released a report on American torture practices during the war on terror which referenced the influence of another CIA agent who was used as part of the composite character Maya.
While not naming the agent, even with a pseudonym, the report is highly critical of her work, stating that she was a primary cheerleader for ineffective torture techniques and that she lied to Congress in an effort to misrepresent the effectiveness of the CIA's torture program.
Because he was offering them vital intelligence that they had been seeking for nearly a decade. Although they were suspicious, it was simply too good an opportunity to pass up, and they considered it worth the risk. Therefore military helicopter flights overhead were not necessarily unusual, they could have put it down to an army night exercise. While the SEALs are unloading and categorizing the tapes, hard drives, and other intelligence materials that they seized from the compound, Maya is led to the body bag.
She unzips it, takes a long, hard look at the face, and confirms that it belongs to bin Laden. She then boards a transport plane where she is told to sit anywhere because hers is the only name on the manifest.
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