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Multimedia - Videos: Jihad on Horseback Part 2

Two years ago, Al Arabiya producer Nabil Kassem was asked to put together a documentary film on Darfur.  What he witnessed there, and recorded in this film, were scenes of unspeakable brutality and untold suffering, scenes he thought would surely wake up an Arab public all too willing to let Darfur pass by.  But 'Jihad on Horseback' never made it across the airwaves.  Watch part 2 of the film to see perhaps the most provocative Arab documentary ever made.


 

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