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Thread ID: 19202 | Posts: 3 | Started: 2005-07-19
2005-07-19 01:02 | User Profile
[url]http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/18/international/middleeast/18erbil.html?pagewanted=all[/url]
[B]CNN for the Kurds [/B]
[I] A little U.S. HUMINT action, no doubt, to help the good guys win hearts and minds over there. [/I]
[url]http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/18/international/middleeast/18erbil.html?pagewanted=all[/url]
Sordid Images on TV Repel the Kurds, but They Raise Some Skepticism, Too
For months, Arabic-language channels have been broadcasting confessions of terrorist suspects that have at once increased ratings and raised suspicions that the statements may have been coerced or staged.
...Even in a heavily edited format that has cut out the most explicit acts, the images of gay sex are vying with those of beheadings in attracting the attention, and revulsion, of viewers.
Nadia Mohamad, 49, a government employee who was watching the program with her husband and children while having dinner at the Sky Cafe in downtown Erbil on Thursday night, said the beheading of a terrified youth on the first program - shown before the sex scenes began appearing - had literally sickened her.
"The first time I saw it, I vomited, because I couldn't control myself," Mrs. Mohamad said.
But then, she said, she was almost equally shocked when the men started stripping and fondling each other before the scene cut away to Sheik Zana and about half a dozen of his underlings giving confessions against blank backdrops. "Sex is something sacred for us," Mrs. Mohamad said. "But when we saw them doing that, it becomes
Among the elements of the Arabic-language confessions that some viewers regard as suspicious are stock admissions by the supposed terrorists that they are gay. Because gay sex is haram, or forbidden, in the Koran, some critics have suggested that the speakers have been induced to make those statements to embarrass themselves.
None of the earlier statements came with videotaped sex scenes, but even with the documentary evidence, the Kurdish confessions have also left some viewers skeptical. "I don't believe all this," said Miran, 34, an accountant who asked that only his first name be used. The confession tapes are not continuous, sometimes jumping from one statement to another, he noted, with no time stamps on the images.
...The broadcast segments began Monday with a frightened-looking Sheik Zana cowering in a dim, echoing room and beginning his confession. The sheik, whose full name is Zana Nasrat Sheik Abdul Karim, then appeared in a different room looking much more self-assured and with a full beard that he did not have in the first segment. He looked into the camera and said brazenly, "It was very easy to slaughter people."
Like that, Gab? Just your kind o' guy, that sheik, right?
Too bad we couldn't have Mrs. Mohamad for a poster here.
2005-07-19 02:52 | User Profile
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Like that, Gab? Just your kind o' guy, that sheik, right?
Too bad we couldn't have Mrs. Mohamad for a poster here. Quit spamming this board with your meaningless bullsh*t, please.[/QUOTE]
Dry up you worthless dog! You will fall for anything, you woman hating freak.
2005-07-19 03:31 | User Profile
G.
O.K. -- its true I was out of line asking you not to spamalot, its TD's board, and he has put up with a lot from me.
But if there is anything I DON'T hate it's real women. :1eye: