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Posted on 05/16/2004 7:38:25 AM PDT by jmstein7
Hideously gruesome photographs and videotapes of Saddam Hussein's police torturing innocent Iraqis held at Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison are said to be in the hands of the new Arab-language television network Alhurra, which is culling through the material deciding what to broadcast.
Novelist and screenwriter Roger Simon reports on his Web Site that the images include: * Photographs of actual live castrations of Kurds.
* Video tapes of two beheadings, with one featuring the executioners singing "Happy Birthday, Saddam" in Arabic as they carry out the grisly murder.
* More video of a detainee whose hand his tied to a board while his fingers are cut off one by one.
* People being thrown off four-story buildings, including one who was forced to wear a Superman costume.
* A man scourged ninety-nine times.
* Videos of babies being gassed to death.
Writes Simon, "I would like to know if any of these torturers is actually in Abu Ghraib right now. . . . I also would like to know what Senator Kennedy has to say about the moral equivalence of our actions after watching these tapes."
Does anyone else get the feeling that this story just jumped the shark?
Sorry but that's funny.
I've seen some of these... Sean had some a few months ago on H&C. They got no coverage.
Kennedy is kind of hard to understand. Look how he killed his own pregnant girlfriend by drowning her --- that wasn't exactly a pleasant death for her I'm sure --- but also his own brother was murdered by an Arab but it doesn't seem to affect him --- unless he's scared they'll get him if he doesn't comply.
Let's see if we see these on the alphabet networks - NOT!
Great. Even the Arab stations show them. But not our traitorous alphabet networks.
If they can sober up senator kennedy long enough to reply without sluring his words and drooling all over himself.
I remember seeing video of people being thrown off buildings and video of beheadings (stopped just short of the actual act)
They may be broadcast on Alhurra, but I doubt CBS will be showing them on Sixty Minutes. If we even hear about them anywhere else than FR or NewsMax, it will be surprising.
I hope these are widely played in the USA Media. However, I strongly doubt it. The censorship of the left-wing, America haters in the Democrat Party and the USA media will prevent them from being shown. The ace in the hole is widespread distribution on the internet. Go to it! We are all waiting!!!!
They may be broadcast on Alhurra, but I doubt CBS will be showing them on Sixty Minutes. If we even hear about them anywhere else than FR or NewsMax, it will be surprising.
Oh No. This is the U.S. sponsored network. I don't think this is a good idea......
Sure.......unless it is you, a loved one or an AMERICAN!
He is too drunk with hate and distain for America to know whether he is dead or alive! Being a moron is his smallest problem! This dude in not all there!
Reuters April 29, 2004 Arabs are watching US TV channel Alhurra - survey WASHINGTON -- The controversial U.S. Arabic-language TV channel Alhurra is winning viewers as a news source in the Arab world despite rising anti-American attitudes in the region, according to a U.S.-financed poll released on Thursday. The telephone survey of 3,588 people aged 15 or older in 13 cities was done by the French research company Ipsos-Stat in early April for the the Broadcasting Board of Governors, the independent federal agency that oversees all U.S. international nonmilitary broadcasting. The results showed Alhurra -- in its first two months -- is being watched by an average 29 percent of the satellite-equipped households in seven countries, including a high of 44 percent in Kuwait and a low of 18 percent in Egypt. The survey also found that an average 53 percent of the viewers consider the channel programming to be reliable or somewhat reliable. This includes a high of 70 percent reliability felt by Saudis and a low of 37 percent reliability among Syrians. "I was very surprised by these numbers," considering all the negative press in the region saying no one is watching Alhurra and the fact that a religious "fatwa" edict was issued against the channel in Saudi Arabia, said Norman Pattiz of the Broadcasting Board of Governors. "Within the first two months of broadcasting Alhurra has quickly established itself as a player among satellite stations in the Middle East," he told a news conference. Some 40 percent of people in the Middle East have access to satellite television, Pattiz said. Many Arab critics have argued that President George W. Bush launched Alhurra, the "Free One," as a propaganda tool to advance a war on Islam. The Americans contend the TV channel is needed to compete for the hearts and minds of Muslims against pan-Arabic stations Al-Jazeera and Al-Arabiya, which U.S. officials charge often distort U.S. policy and are hostile to it. Pattiz said the survey numbers for Al-Jazeera and Al-Arabiya are much higher but still the results for Alhurra are "great indicators." "Our product is credibility in news and information. If we don't have that, we're dead in the water," he said. The station operates 24 hours a day every day and aims to "present U.S. policies accurately and credibly" through full discussions representing a variety of viewpoints, he added. Pattiz said Alhurra and the U.S.-funded Radio Sawa, which also operates in the Middle East, still have hurdles to overcome in winning viewers and listeners. But experience is proving that "if you give them an example of product that is balanced and that clearly tells all sides of the issues ... then they will come, and they have," he said. The Alhurra survey was conducted in Beirut, Lebanon; Damascus and Aleppo in Syria; Abu Dhabi and Dubai in the United Arab Emirates; Cairo and Alexandria in Egypt; Kuwait City; Amman, Irbid and Zarqa in Jordan; and Riyadh and Jeddah in Saudi Arabia.
Do you remember the video of an Iraqi man being pulled screaming from a UN vehicle by iraqi police in the weeks leading up to war? The UN workers simply stepped back as police hauled him and an armload of papers out of their vehicle.
The democrats didnt skip a beat then, I doubt they will now.
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