Vickers, a former CIA paramilitary officer and member of the Army Special Forces, was portrayed in the 2007 film adaptation of the book Charlie Wilson’s War about US support for Afghans fighting Soviet troops in the 1980s.
The Pentagon declined to cooperate with Bigelow’s Hurt Locker amid disagreements about the script, which portrayed a US Army bomb disposal squad in Baghdad, officials said.
US film giant Columbia Pictures has won the US distribution rights for the bin Laden movie, which is due to begin filming later this year.
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