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I deleted the unnecessary label "Iranian-American" because Mr. Nowrasteh is American - as already noted in the Biography section, he is of Persian descent but was born in Boulder, Colorado. Robert Rodriguez, born in Texas but of Mexican descent, is described on Wikipedia as "an American director" and Akiva Goldsman, born in New York, is described as "an American writer," not a "Jewish-American" screenwriter.
I deleted the unnecessary label "Iranian-American" because Mr. Nowrasteh is American - as already noted in the Biography section, he is of Persian descent but was born in Boulder, Colorado. Robert Rodriguez, born in Texas but of Mexican descent, is described on Wikipedia as "an American director" and Akiva Goldsman, born in New York, is described as "an American writer," not a "Jewish-American" screenwriter. [[User:Bartleby007|Bartleby007]] 20:49, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

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Family

Quote: "They have two sons, Alexander C. Nowrasteh (born October 4, 1985) and Mark G. Nowrasteh (born November 30, 1985.)"

This cannot be right, unless Alexander was prematurely delivered with a cesarian, in which case this would be at least interesting to mention. Just presenting these dates makes one curious. JAL 82.92.15.150 12:36, 11 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Neutrality

Quote: "Although Nawrasteh's screenplay for The Path to 9/11 has been billed by the ABC network as having been "based on the 9/11 Commission Report", all the crucial scenes were complete fabrications, and the film was essentially a right-wing hatchet job put forward by Disney and ABC in collusion with conservative Christians funded by Richard Mellon Scaife."

This is hardly neutral language. I marked the article as such. Steven Hildreth, Jr. 19:18, 11 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Those edits were reverted as all were made without edit summaries and some of them undid citations. It currently reads as follows:
Although Nawrasteh's screenplay for The Path to 9/11 has been billed by the ABC network as having been "based on the 9/11 Commission Report", there were multiple accusations that the screenplay evidences political bias because of its portrayal of the Clinton Administration[2]. In an interview Nowrasteh gave to the online magazine FrontPageMag.com on August 16th 2006, he said that the movie "dramatizes the frequent opportunities the Administration had in the 90s to stop Bin Laden in his tracks -- but lacked the will to do so"[3]. Critics, including 9/11 Commission member Richard Ben-Veniste have pointed out that this was not the conclusion of the 9/11 Commission and that certain scenes in the film are fabrications. Richard Miniter - a conservative author who wrote a book entitled Losing bin Laden: How Bill Clinton’s Failures Unleashed Global Terror - conceded on CNN on September 7, 2006 that several of the complaints about the mini-series being made by Clinton administration officials were entirely justified, and that several scenes in the film were based on "Internet myth" [4]. The film is a controversial docudrama being aired by ABC/Walt Disney but was initiated by a Christian activist organization Youth With A Mission (YWAM), through their auxiliary - The Film Institute (TFI). The project has been criticized as having a political agenda and for fictionalizing the lead-up to 9/11 in order to redirect blame to the Clinton administration[5].

WSJ Misquote

The quote from the Wall Street Journal article is incorrect - the following sentence: "My sin was to write a screenplay accurately depicting Bill Clinton's record on terrorism" IS NOT Mr. Nowrasteh's and should be stricken from the quotation; it is a "blurb" by the WSJ itself which appeared only in the online, not the print, version of WJS, and does NOT appear at all in the body of Mr. Nowrasteh's article. The actual paragraph reads, "'The Path to 9/11' was set in the time before the event, and in a world in which no party had the political will to act. The principals did not know then what we know now. It is also indisputable that Bill Clinton entered office a month before the first attack on the World Trade Center. Eight years then went by, replete with terrorist assaults on Americans and American interests overseas. George W. Bush was in office eight months before 9/11. Those who actually watched the entire miniseries know that he was given no special treatment." I propose editing it accordingly. Bartleby007 22:15, 19 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Filmography and order

I have a couple of short paragraphs of History and Filmography info that I'd like to add, which for logic's sake I think should follow the Biography section and precede The Path to 9/11 section, since that section addresses the very recent controversy surrounding the latest entry in Filmography. . . Bartleby007 22:34, 19 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Add away...do your best to be sure that all that you add is verifiable. Welcome to the process! Kukini 22:35, 19 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Path to 9/11

Unless a citation is added confirming this misleading statement, I suggest removing the sentence in the middle of this section about the miniseries having been initiated by YWAM and TFI, since it has been pointed out elsewhere (most explicitly on the Discussion page of the David Loren Cunningham entry) that YWAM and TFI "are not affiliated with any American political party and have no political agenda in that or any nation. We had no part in any funding of the ABC mini series THE PATH TO 9/11." I also suggest that the last two sentences of this section either be cited or removed, or at least rephrased.

Ancestry

I deleted the unnecessary label "Iranian-American" because Mr. Nowrasteh is American - as already noted in the Biography section, he is of Persian descent but was born in Boulder, Colorado. Robert Rodriguez, born in Texas but of Mexican descent, is described on Wikipedia as "an American director" and Akiva Goldsman, born in New York, is described as "an American writer," not a "Jewish-American" screenwriter. Bartleby007 20:49, 23 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]