American_Fugitive:_The_Truth_About_Hassan

<i>American Fugitive: The Truth About Hassan</i>

American Fugitive: The Truth About Hassan

2006 Canadian film

American Fugitive: The Truth About Hassan is a film, directed by Jean-Daniel Lafond, about an exiled American political activist named Dawud Salahuddin (also known as David Belfield and Hassan Abdulrahman).[1] Belfield has confessed to assassinating a former Iranian diplomat, who supported the shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, in 1980.[2][3]

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Belfield unexpectedly appeared playing an exiled American political activist in the 2001 film Kandahar.[1][2][4] Lafond then traveled to Iran to film the documentary about him.

References

  1. [1]
    American Fugitive:The truth about Hassan Archived 2008-12-08 at the Wayback Machine, InformAction
  2. [2]
    Lafond's new film hits hot buttons, CBC, April 26, 2006
  3. [3]
    An American Terrorist: He's an assassin who fled the country. Could he help Washington now?, New Yorker (magazine), August 5, 2002
  4. [4]
    Airbrushing a killer Archived 2009-12-10 at the Wayback Machine, National Post, May 2, 2006


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