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The Prisoner: How I Planned to Kill Tony Blair
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The Prisoner: How I Planned to Kill Tony Blair

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Yunis Khatayer Abbas is an Iraqi journalist with no political affiliations when British and American forces detain him on suspicion of plotting to assassinate Tony Blair. The film follows his own account of what happens next: transfers between detention centers, interrogations built on a coincidence rather than evidence, and months inside Abu Ghraib, where abuse is routine. Abbas narrates his ordeal with a dry, almost incredulous humor, and the filmmakers lean into that tone with editing and music choices that turn the story into something closer to farce than tragedy, even as the details stay grim. No formal charge is ever filed against him, and none of the soldiers or officials involved face consequences, a fact the film returns to as its real point. Behind the absurdist framing sits a documented case of wrongful detention inside the machinery the Iraq War built for handling suspects, and Abbas's account stands in for the many Iraqis who passed through that same system without ever being named a threat.