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## Video: <i>Br&uuml;no</i>'s 'Terrorist' Speaks Out

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_Published 2009-07-24. In this TIME exclusive interview, Ayman Abu Aita says he was exploited in the Bruno movie and tells his side of the story_


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## Transcript

>> Meet Ayman Abu Aita, the man who recently became famous was Bruno's terrorist. When Abu Aita found out a couple weeks ago that he had unknowingly become a star in Cohen's raunchy new comedy, he was not happy. And now, he is planning revenge-- -[ Foreign Language ]

>> with an Israeli lawyer--

>> That's gonna be a huge amount of money.

>> and a law firm representing him in the United States. -[ Foreign Language ] -[ Foreign Language ]

>> So, who's the real guy behind Bruno's terrorist? It took just a couple of phone calls, none of them to the CIA, to find Abu Aita, hardly in hiding, but working in his supermarket alongside his two sons in Bethlehem, a tourist center of the Middle East. Abu Aita is Christian and he lives here with his wife and four children. -[ Foreign Language ]

>> But the al- Aqsa Martyrs' Brigade, the militant wing of the Fatah political party, disbanded in 2004. So, it doesn't exist anymore. Back at the location where the scene from Bruno was filmed last year, a nice restaurant just outside Bethlehem, which happens to be in an area under full Israeli military control and right next to a military training base, Abu Aita says he didn't suspect anything strange at all. -[ Foreign Language ] -[ Foreign Language ]

>> He says he feels taken advantage of. -[ Foreign Language ] -[ Foreign Language ]

>> Abu Aita says being in the film has hurt his reputation in the community and his standing as a political candidate and nonviolence activist. -[ Foreign Language ] -[ Foreign Language ]

>> Lubna Takruri in Bethlehem for TIME. com.

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