A sign protesting U.S.-Philippine military exercises (Source: PBS Frontline [3])

"Disney [4] and producer Jerry Bruckheimer have acquired screen rights to 'Jihadists in Paradise,' a Mark Bowden article [5]," reports Variety. The article "details the emergence in the Philippines [6] of the Islamic terrorist faction Abu Sayyaf and one of its leaders," who kidnapped 20 tourists, including Americans. The new film project was not welcomed by some in the Philippines. In a statement, the spokesman for the Fisherfolk Alliance of the Philippines (described as "a leading progressive group") called "Jihadists in Paradise" a "propaganda [7] film and psychological warfare [8] movie." He added that the film will promote the "U.S. war on terror [9] and amplify its [U.S.] tagging of the Philippines as the second front for U.S. military aggression," reports [10] All Headline News. Bruckheimer previously produced "Black Hawk Down," about U.S. military operations in Somalia [11]; that film was adapted from a Bowden book. Bowden "is also penning a drama for Imagine and Paramount based on the subject of 'extraordinary rendition [12],'" where CIA [13] agents kidnap terrorist suspects and deport them, without trial, for detention and interrogation overseas -- often in countries where prisoners are routinely tortured.