Bin Laden filmaker to sue Michael Moore

A former/current member of Al-Qaida is sueing Michael Moore for the use of his footage of Osama Bin Laden.

A FORMER close associate of Osama Bin Laden is to sue the film-maker Michael Moore for using his footage of the Al-Qaeda chief in the documentary Fahrenheit 9/11.

Essam Deraz, an Egyptian, spent almost four years in Afghanistan filming Bin Laden at training camps and fighting, gaining unprecedented access to the terrorist leader. He was the only person to film Bin Laden during the late 1980s and has the only footage of the Saudi exile in battle in Afghanistan.

Deraz has started legal action in Egypt and America to seek compensation for use of his footage in Fahrenheit 9/11, the biggest-grossing documentary in cinema history.

This filmmaker noticed all the attention the movie was getting in the Arab world, and wanted his cut. I wonder if Hezbollah and Al Qaeda will pay for the use of Moore's video in its recruitment videos.