Movie: Riding the Storm: How to Tell Lies and Win Wars

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Maggie O'Kane
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    Journalist Maggie O’Kane returns to Iraq five years after Desert Storm to try to understand why she was not able to report the war freely and to investigate some of the stories which did not stand up.

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    1996-01-03

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