Dirty Wars is a 2013 American documentary film, which accompanies the book Dirty Wars The World Is a Battlefield by Jeremy Scahill. The film is directed by Richard Rowley, and written by Scahill and David Riker.
Initially the film was not intended to have Scahill as a narrator or protagonist, instead acting as a tour guide as the film traveled between the sites of covert U.S. military action. David Riker was brought on board to assist with writing after an initial fourhour rough cut of the film was put together, and he convinced Scahill and Rowley to make the film more personal.During filming, Scahill and Rowley traveled to Somalia to meet warlords in different territories of the country. As no American insurance companies would cover them to travel there, they had to get kidnap and ransom insurance from another country. ........
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