"Terrorism in the Hands of Justice"

LessBread · 2005-04-25T04:40:50

COPS as Stalinist propaganda - Actors in the Insurgency Are Reluctant TV Stars Quote: BAGHDAD -- Iraq's hottest new television program is a reality show. But the players are not there by choice. And they don't win big bucks, a new spouse or a dream job. Instead, all the characters on "Terrorism in the Hands of Justice" are captured suspected insurgents. And for more than a month, they have been riveting viewers with tales of how they killed, kidnapped, raped or beheaded other Iraqis, usually for a few hundred dollars per victim. ... Officials launched the program, Kadhim said, after realizing that Iraqis did not believe that insurgents were being arrested. "Talking to people in the street, they say, 'Is it really true? . . . Why don't you show it?' " he recalled. "The demand for this came from the people." ... "Televised confessions are almost always suspect," Stork added. "Recent examples in Iran and Saudi Arabia clearly involved a high level of coercion and degrading treatment." Such concerns have not dimmed the program's popularity. ... "My criticism of the program is that it is sometimes simplistic, repetitive and gives the impression that those [men] are being coached to say what they are saying, although I believe they have committed these crimes," said Abdul Kareem Janaby, 46, a Trade Ministry employee. "Those persons are nothing but dirty, lowly gangs who are being used to defame the true character of the Sunnis." ... Others are not so rosy in their description of the show: Let a Thousand Militias Bloom Quote: ... The police commandos have been supplying suspects who confess their crimes on the TV show, "Terrorism in the Hands of Justice." Described as the Iraqi government's "slick new propaganda tool," the program runs six nights a week on the Iraqiya network, which was set up by the Pentagon and is now run by Australian-based Harris Corp. (a major U.S. government contractor that gave 96 percent of its political funding, more than $260,000, to Republicans in 2004). According to the Boston Globe, camera crews are sent "wherever police commandos make a lot of arrests." The show features an unseen interrogator haranguing alleged insurgents for confessions. Virtually every press account notes that the suspects appear to have been beaten or tortured, their faces bruised and swollen. The London Guardian states "some have. robotic manners of those beaten and coached by police interrogators off-camera." The Boston Globe observed, "The neat confessions of terrorist attacks at times fit together so seamlessly as to seem implausible." And then there's the nature of the confessions. Many suspects admit to "drunkeness, gay orgies and pornography," according to the Guardian. The Financial Times reported that, "One long-bearded preacher known as Abu Tabarek recently confessed that guerrillas had usually held orgies in his mosques." Another preacher giving a confession says he was fired for "having sex with men in the mosque," the Globe account stated that suspects "frequently admit to rape and pedophilia." ... This link also relates to a previous gdnet thread Death Squad Revival. A newly emerging theme in the Iraq stories told by big media in the US is the approaching civil war. The two stories above share it, the Hostage Hoax story that unfolded and then disintegrated and almost appeared as if it was planted in order to inflame ethnic tensions. However, the record indicates that US Forces still remain the primary target of attack by insurgents. Check out these charts from Does the Resistance Target Civilians? According to US Intel, Not Really. At any rate, all this has me wondering about justice in the hands of terrorists. How about you?

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April 24, 2005 08:49 PM

Let's try this again.

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April 25, 2005 04:40 AM

I've briefly reopened this thread because here is where I thought I should register my response to this post.

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I think your avatar says it all. I also think its disgusting, as a moderator here, to push your political views on a non-political site. I get tired of seeing this sh*t all over the web, ESPECIALLY here on gamedev.

In regard to pushing my views, I kept the topic brief and left it open for discussion. If you think that's pushy, I'm sorry for you. No one forced you to click on links to subjects you find tiring. If you don't like this thread, you can choose from many others in the lounge.

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