Film on bin Laden raid premieres Sunday

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ENEMY KILLED IN ACTION. This still photo from "SEAL Team Six: The Killing of Osama bin Laden" shows a dramatization of the team after killing Osama Bin Laden during Operation Neptune's Spear on May 2, 2011 in the Pakistani city of Abbottabad. AFP PHOTO / Geronimo Nevada, LLC / National Geographic Channels / Ursula COYOTE

Timing is everything in show business, but the director of the first movie about the commando raid that killed Osama bin Laden doubts its television premiere Sunday will swing the US election. “SEAL Team Six: The Raid on Osama bin Laden” raised eyebrows when it was announced last month that it would screen for the first time on the National Geographic cable channel just two days before America votes. Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein, a prominent fundraiser for President Barack Obama, is the distributor and one of the executive producers of the 90-minute action thriller. Stockwell shrugged off suggestions that his film is some kind of prime-time Obama propaganda tool to sway voters less than 48 hours before polls open.

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