The U.S. officials charge that the film is Libyan propaganda, They say it was funded by more than $1 million funneled to the production company Hemar from the Libyan-Arab Finance Corp., a Libyan government entity. When the film began, Hemar was a subsidiary of Metropole, controlled by British businessman Tiny Rowland–and partly owned by LAFICO. The FBI, asked by Scottish police, is preparing a rebuttal of the film. “It’s Libya disinformation,” says Vincent Cannistraro, ex-head of CIA counterterrorism. “We know the funding sources cause a controversy,” says a Channel 4 spokes-woman. “That doesn’t necessarily make it propaganda.” A Rowland spokesman says he “funded it out of his own pocket.”
