Exclusive: Michael Aboud, chair of the El Paso County Republican Party, has announced his intention to sue Sacha Baron Cohen over footage of him featured in the satirical comedy Ali G: Who Iz I? The film portrays Aboud participating in a training program with another character, Col Erran Morad, an ex-Mossad terrorist expert, who instructs Aboud and fellow supporters in unconventional self-defense techniques.
Controversial Training Techniques
In the film, Aboud and his peers learn to wear protective plastic buttocks over their clothes and how to fire bullets using a rubber penis. They are then recruited by Morad to prevent the birth of a fictional drug kingpin's baby on U.S. soil, mistakenly believed to be Ali G's child. This leads to a bizarre mission where Aboud and another participant, Joshua Loudermilk, help abduct Ali G’s girlfriend, Julie, who is in labor, and transport her in a kebab van disguised as an ambulance to an abandoned medical facility.
Disturbing Scenes
The film features shocking scenes, including Aboud dropping a lifelike prosthetic baby from a drone to avoid it touching U.S. soil. Aboud was reportedly unaware that he was participating in anything other than a documentary until contacted by the Guardian.
