Nearly three years before the WTC attacks inn September of 2001, an eerily prophetic film directed by Edward Zwick was released chronicling a network of underground terrorist activity that launches a series of bombings to devastate New York City in retaliation of a US military abduction by an Islamic Sheik leader. FBI agent Anthony Hubbard and CIA operative Elise Kraft team up to track down the terrorist cells but are hindered when the President declares a state of martial law under the command of General William Devereaux.

I cannot speak for the intent of the film, but the purpose of this video was to illustrate one simple point, perfectly explained in the song lyrics: Namely, that every side of a conflict is so intent on shifting blame and refusing to take responsibility for their own actions that the issues tend to only exacerbate as very few are ever willing to try and understand the perspective of the other side.

This video switches perspectives from the American to the Islamic POV and attempts to show how nothing is as black or white, or as good vs. evil as it may seem. Of course you have the Islamic fundamentalists, but you also have good men like Agent Frank Haddad, who is devastated when his teenage son is arrested on suspicion of terrorist involvement simply because he is Arabic. And just like you have the patriotic FBI Agent Anthony Hubbard on the American side, there is also the General Devereaux, a professed patriot but power-hungry, ruthless man willing to sidestep the laws of common human rights in order to obtain what he wants.

Film: The Siege [1998] starring Denzel Washington, Annette Benning and Bruce Willis.
Song: "We Are" by Ana Johnson

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