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George Clooney hasn't learned his lesson - antiwar films about Iraq aren't popular at the box office. Clooney and his production company, Smoke House, just snapped up rights to Jonathan Mahler's book 'The Challenge,' the story of Salim Hamdan, Osama bin Laden's Yemeni driver, who is charged in the first US war-crimes trial since World War II, now under way at Guantanamo Bay.
Clooney paid seven figures for the account of Hamdan's journey from a mosque in Yemen and bin Laden's compound in Afghanistan to solitary confinement. Clooney is said to be considering one of the lead roles, that of Navy Lt. Cmdr. Charles Swift, who was part of the legal team that took Hamdan's case to the Supreme Court and won a pretrial decision that even terrorists are covered by the Geneva Convention.
The victory cost Swift his job and marriage.
WENN
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