Characters on Showtime's 'Sleeper Cell' Espouse How Bush and CIA Behind 9/11 Attacks

http://newsbusters.org/ ^ | December 11, 2006 | Brent Baker

[lowbridge]

Characters on Showtime's 'Sleeper Cell' Espouse How Bush and CIA Behind 9/11 Attacks

Posted by Brent Baker on December 11, 2006 - 18:47.

The premiere Sunday night of the second season of Showtime's week-long mini-series, Sleeper Cell: American Terror, gave time to two characters espousing how President Bush and the CIA were behind the 9/11 attacks. The eight-part series, airing for an hour at 9pm EST/PST (with an 11pm EST/PST) repeat every night through this Sunday on the CBS-owned network, picks up after last season which ended with an undercover Muslim FBI agent at the last-minute thwarting a plot to explode a nuclear device at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles.

In the newest episode, a woman who appears to be the girlfriend of one of the plotters who escaped capture (and she may not even be aware that he's a terrorist), arrives at his safe house and after the two have sex, as they sit on the kitchen floor eating from one plate, she propounds that “every time we have sex, it's like the ultimate f*** you to Bush, Cheney and the whole 9/11 plot. I just keep picturing Giuliani and the rest of those assholes supervising the whole thing from that $15 million bunker on the 23rd floor of Building 7. You know that's where they broadcast the homing signal from, make sure the planes would hit the towers." The terrorist man, a Bosnian, adds: "I know, and the Pentagon was actually hit by a CIA Global Hawk drone so the administration could start an endless war and turn America into a police state."

I'm unclear as to what character the woman is playing and how much knowledge she has of the terrorist cell, but she does not appear to be one of the two women on the show's page with a list of characters. The man is definitely "Ilija Korjenic," played by Henry Lubatti, the “right-hand man” to cell leader “Farik.” Much of the opening episode of the second season centered around the captured “Farik,” played by Oded Fehr, and torture techniques applied to him.

From what I saw of the first season, the series will make the terrorists the bad guys and provide an admiring portrait of the undercover FBI agent. And since the anti-U.S. conspiracy theory was advocated by a known terrorist and his girlfriend, it's not as if Showtime had positive characters deliver it, but I thought it worth mentioning the inclusion. Washington Post television reviewer Tom Shales, however, on Saturday condemned as “reckless” the dialog about how the U.S. government orchestrated 9/11:

“It is even suggested by one character -- admittedly someone who's supposed to be an imbecile -- that the atrocity of 9/11 was perpetrated by American forces to make Islamic extremists look bad. 'Uncle Sam was behind the whole thing,' it is recklessly alleged.”

The exchange from the December 10 Sleeper Cell as the two characters sit on a kitchen floor and eat from one plate:

Girlfriend: “You know, every time we have sex, it's like the ultimate fuck you to Bush, Cheney and the whole 9/11 plot. I just keep picturing Giuliani and the rest of those assholes supervising the whole thing from that $15 million bunker on the 23rd floor of Building 7. You know that's where they broadcast the homing signal from, make sure the planes would hit the towers.”

“Ilija Korjenic,” played by Henry Lubatti: “I know, and the Pentagon was actually hit by a CIA Global Hawk drone so the administration could start an endless war and turn America into a police state.”

Girlfriend: “And what idiot could believe that Osama bin Laden and his cave-dwelling Muslim militia managed to out-smart the CIA, the NSA and the Pentagon -- unless Uncle Sam was behind the whole thing.”

Ilija: “Not me.”

[MEG33]

Good Grief!

[mmyers]

Wow, is that how it happened???? Idiots

[mmyers]

Wow, is that how it happened???? Idiots

[Brilliant]

There is no question that the CIA was behind it. It was the failure of the CIA that lead directly to 911.

They also screwed up the Iraq intelligence and the North Korean intelligence. They can't do anything right, but do you think Congress will lift their little pinky to fix the CIA?

NO! They don't want to change Frank Church's "legacy."

[rbg81]

Yeah, lets keep this right up. 50 years from now, the Bush/Cheney 911 plot will be taught in all the history books of the Islamic state of Mexiemerica.

[lowbridge]

picks up after last season which ended with an undercover Muslim FBI agent at the last-minute thwarting a plot to explode a nuclear device at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles.

I wonder who planted that nuclear device in the first place. Probably one of them angry Christians. Naturally the FBI agent has to be a Muslim.

[rbg81]

undercover Muslim FBI agent at the last-minute thwarting a plot to explode a nuclear device at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles. Oh yeah, this too. The evil white guys were behind it all. Only the Muslims can save us from THEM. The problem is that 1/3 of the American people will probably come to believe this bilge.

[rintense]

The first Sleeper Cell was really good. I'm hoping they are using this crap as sheer irony, since that Bosnian character is a left over from last season.

[goldstategop]

Its a good show - way better than "24". It actually shows what Muslim extremists think and how they operate. I wouldn't be in the least surprised Islamofascists subscribe to the same conspiratorial theories as the moonbat Democrats. Who is to say another 9/11 can't happen again? The Democrats don't think Islam IS the enemy.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus

[Hegemony Cricket]

Hmmmm. I wonder what the buzz is over at DU about this documentary?

[MEG33]

If you don't know the difference between the CIA's failing to discover the 911 plot and stopping it and being "behind it"..you are in serious need of a name change.

[LdSentinal]

Sounds like a Cindy Sheehan type girlfriend of a terrorist saying this, which isn't a bad thing.

[Brilliant]

Oh, I know the difference, but the fact is that the number one thing Congress should have done in response to 911 is reform the CIA, and they did not. I guess you could say that Congress was behind it, if you want to get technical.

[MEG33]

And here I am blaming Osama and Al Queda for being "behind it"..

[Chode]

Bush is an idiot and Bush is a Moron and he put together the most complicated plot in history, involving hundreds of people and disappearing hundreds more, all without ANYBODY talking or any proof for over five years!!!

i just can't take it anymore... oh where will it all end???

WWWWAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Brilliant]

The saying is "Do it once, it's your fault. Do it twice, it's mine."

[MEG33]

No, that is not the saying.

[Brilliant]

You remind me of my kid. He disagrees with anything you say.

[MEG33]

Brilliant