Confessions rivet Iraqis, Fight for minds uses a TV show as battleground

BAGHDAD -- Iraq's wildly popular new television hit features a nightly parade of men, most with bruised faces, confessing to all kinds of terrorist and criminal acts.

''Terrorism in the Hands of Justice" is the Iraqi government's slick new propaganda tool; its televised confessions, police say, aim to discredit the armed resistance and advertise the government's success at cracking down on gangs.
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Iraqi government officials brag that the show has ruined the image of jihad, or holy war, in the country, exposing the resistance as a racket of street criminals and thugs who attack Americans and Iraqi security forces for pay.

It also raises a host of questions about Iraq's treatment of the suspects and the reliability of their confessions.

The bruised, swollen faces and hunched shoulders of many of the suspects suggest they have been beaten or tortured. The neat confessions of terrorist attacks at times fit together so seamlessly as to seem implausible. And the suspects are presented to the public without any legal process to protect them, presumed guilty, with no word about rule of law as a weapon in the arsenal against terrorism. US officials have sidestepped questions about the program airing on Iraqiya, a network still run by an American contractor hired by US occupation officials nearly a year ago........MORE.......

http://www.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/articles/2005/03/18/confessions_rivet_iraqis/

It is only a matter of time.

FOX Announcer: "With your host Alberto Gonzales. This weeks special guest inquisitor Lindy England. Lets begin with the cattle prod round."

this type of program might have a tendency to backfire.

Isn't it more like advertising the abuses taking place and how under torture, people will say anything to make it stop?

"...Gets out stains. Even blood!"

Boosh said ME democracy wouldn't look like ours. He *didn't* say how much it would look like Saddam's.

And a list is being kept.

``What will happen after the OPEC meeting is that they will all
be producing at capacity,'' said Kenneth Deffeyes,
professor emeritus of petroleum geology at Princeton
University.

But Washington will not retreat: the civilian militarists
have invested all their ideological beliefs in the US as
an invincible, unipolar power; the Pentagon-Zionists
are committed to establishing unchallenged Israeli power in
the region even if it means weakening the US Empire in the
rest of the world. The political class (Democrats
and Republicans) and most generals believe that a
withdrawal – a defeat – will encourage other countries
to challenge US world supremacy. The logic of Washington
for 2005 is that the War must continue, victory must be
secured – no matter what the cost in human lives, Iraqi or
US. The treasury and the budget is hostage to the Logic of
War: to defend the image of imperial invincibility, the empire
will be brought to its
knees.

http://www.rebelion.org/noticia.php?id=9395

Now on tour in Iraq, performances daily.
Fugging Proles. *shakes fist* Damn you Goldstein!

Remember?

I daresay this show is "wildly popular" with the Iraqis for the wrong reason.

:headbang:
rocknation

Why do I doubt that that description of this obvious propaganda-fest is utterly unrelated to reality? The Iraqis have proven highly resistant to even watching official stations. If the US hasn't managed to cut off satellite reception of the Arab channels, there's no way anybody outside the quislings is watching this crap.

How are they going to watch it if the power's off?

Didn't they torture the central character in the story with rats until he confessed and betrayed his lover? They then broadcast the confession.

2+2=5 Hahahaaa-he... wait, that's nut funny!

The people on this show are adding pedophilia and homosexuality in with their confessions. One even confessed to killing people who are still alive.

What chaos the bushies have unleashed upon the world -not new, but firmly stamped now with "USA".

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/01/14/1555223

U.S. Journalist Quits Pentagon Iraqi Media Project Calling it U.S. Propaganda

The U.S. has awarded a $96 million contract to a U.S. producer of communications equipment, Harris Corp., to create a U.S.-funded national media network in Iraq.
According to the head of Harris Corp, the Iraqi Media Network will have 30 TV and radio transmitters, three broadcast studios, and 12 bureaus around Iraq.

After U.S.-led troops ousted Saddam Hussein's regime in April, the state-run broadcasters were seized. Since then, they have been run by a U.S. defense contractor, Science Applications International Corporation.
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Looks like the strike on US deaths in February is real, and i will have to apoligize to the US Democrat's through this forum. I ask this forum to wait until i can get an evening with a person who has fought in Fallujah and other battlegrounds in Iraq before i do make my apology. I'm not comfortable with this source information. I'd prefer to wait for a real soldier's story.

I wonder if Saddam had a show like this, where he paraded "confessions" from his opponents. Once more Bush emulates the things he claims to be against (I say Bush, since nothing happens in "official" Iraq that the BFEE doesn't like).

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Iraqi 'justice' by television
By Jim Muir BBC News, Baghdad



'Self-confessed' insurgents are portrayed as morally bankrupt
Looking cowed and frightened, a young man, identified by his full name and sitting directly in front of the camera, is being bullied and browbeaten by an interrogator who remains out of the picture.
I don't know if I posted this the right way. I just read this article on the BBC website. Looks like we're teaching the Iraqis our version of journalism.

the US--it is a wonder anything of importance at all gets out (thank goodness for some bloggers like Friske)