Thursday, March 10, 2005
As Horrible As This Sounds, It's Still More Watchable Than Most Shows On American TV
A new Baghdad television show called Terror In the Grip of Justice features insurgents being interrogated about the attacks they've carried out. In a recent episode, one man claimed that he "attacked the National Guard with machine guns and killed two of them. Then we beheaded one of them." The purported confessions seem a little forced, however, and some claim that they're not real. The series, produced by the Interior Ministry of Iraq, is aired on an unpopular channel that was originally set up and funded by Americans. The insurgents are fighting back by threatening to impose "God's justice" on the employees of the station--and they've already killed an anchorwoman. Kind of brings a new meaning to "reality TV," no? Source
