Commando is a 1985 American action movie directed by Mark L. Lester and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Rae Dawn Chong, Alyssa Milano, Vernon Wells, Bill Duke and Dan Hedaya. The movie was released in the United States on October 4, 1985.
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Mr. Perot pledged to bring the men home. After diplomatic efforts failed to free them, he put together a task force with political and legal expertise, made key contacts and secured the assets necessary to get them out. He enlisted a former Army colonel, Arthur "Bull" Simons, who led a 1970 raid on the Son Tay prison camp in North Vietnam to free American POWs believed held there.
Mr. Perot headed to Turkey, and on Feb. 11, 1979, the plan went into action. As the commando team was planning the prison break, a young Iranian EDS worker helped stoke a riot by anti-shah dissidents nearby. The mob, many firing rifles in the air, stormed the prison and freed the EDS executives along with thousands of other inmates.
After 46 days, Mr. Chiapparone and Mr. Gaylord were free, making their way to a rendezvous point at a Tehran hotel. From there, they and key members of the team set off by car because air travel was too risky. They talked their way through checkpoints, relying heavily on a forged letter, written in Farsi and stamped with an emblem from the "Library of Rezaieh Religion School" that said they had permission to travel freely.
Kuwait, a major U.S. ally in the Persian Gulf, has banned Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11" because it deems the movie insulting to the Saudi Arabian royal family and critical of America's invasion of Iraq, an official said Sunday. "We have a law that prohibits insulting friendly nations, and ties between Kuwait and Saudi Arabia are special," Abdul-Aziz Bou Dastour, cinema and production supervisor at the Information Ministry, told The Associated Press. Darlene Lanham, 28, left, Sarah Looney, 27, center, and Erin Taber, 25, right, are silhouetted as they watch a screening of Michael Moore's 'Fahrenheit 9/11' in Crawford, Texas, Wednesday, July 28, 2004. The three friends traveled from Austin, Texas to watch the movie. [AP]He said the film "insulted the Saudi royal family by saying they had common interests with the Bush family and that those interests contradicted with the interests of the American people." The ministry made the decision to bar "Fahrenheit 9/11" in mid-July after the state-owned Kuwait National Cinema Co. asked for the license to show the movie. The company monopolizes cinemas in Kuwait, but all movies must first be sanctioned by government censors. "Fahrenheit 9/11," which won the top honor at May's Cannes Film Festival, depicts the White House as asleep at the wheel before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks in New York and Washington. Moore accuses U.S. President Bush of fanning fears of future terrorism to win public support for the Iraq war. The Saudi royal family has taken issue with the movie for claiming that high-ranking Saudi nationals were allowed to flee the United States immediately after the attacks at a time when American airspace had been closed to all commercial traffic. The 9/11 commission investigating the 2001 terrorist attacks found no evidence that any flights of Saudi nationals took place before the reopening of national airspace on Sept 13. Kuwait was the launch pad for the war that unseated Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, who ordered the invasion of Kuwait 14 years ago. A U.S.-led coalition fought the first Gulf War, which evicted Iraqis after seven months of occupation. Saudi Arabia, a leading Arab Muslim nation, opened its land and air space to coalition forces that liberated Kuwait, and Kuwaitis are still grateful for that. The film is already playing elsewhere in the Middle East, including the United Arab Emirates and Lebanon.
LucasArts has released a six-minute trailer for Star Wars: Republic Commando, which introduces us to what narrator Chris Williams describes as the Star Wars galaxy's equivalent of Navy SEALs. With the game set between Episodes II and III of the movie, the trailer focuses on an incursion into the depths of the planet Geonosis. You can download the trailer now from Eurofiles. 2ff7e9595c