Posted on 01/15/2007 8:11:09 AM PST by DogByte6RER
Insurgent TV channel turns into Iraq's newest cult hit
Michael Howard in Baghdad
Monday January 15, 2007
The Guardian
An American soldier slumps in the turret of his tank, felled by the infamous Baghdad sniper. A Humvee is vapourised by a roadside bomb. Rockets launch from a pick-up truck to shouts of "Allah u Akhbar [God is great]".
Back in the studio a TV anchorman, dressed in fatigues, urges viewers to rise up and fight the invaders. "We will not surrender. Either death or victory," he vows, while warning US forces and their "Iranian" friends in Iraq's government that they face a shameful defeat.
This is al-Zawraa TV, a 24-hour satellite station that lionises Iraq's insurgency to the drumbeat of Saddam-era martial music. It is a crude and dizzying mix of images and videos harvested from jihadi websites - and a cult hit. There are grainy loops of car bombs and mortar attacks interspersed with images of prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib and bloodied children. "Mujahideen" are seen training. Clips of Michael Moore's film, Fahrenheit 9/11 are thrown in for good measure.
Its chief targets are the US-led forces and "collaborators". But it reserves some of its strongest venom for the Safawis, a derogatory term used by Sunni Arabs to describe Iraq's resurgent Shia political and religious establishment. The name harks back to the Persian Safavid empire which ran amok in Baghdad in the 16th century.
The radical Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr and his Mahdi militia, thought to be behind many of today's anti-Sunni attacks, are excoriated as "murderous gangsters", while the Shia-led government is labelled as Iranian stooges. "We are not against the Shia, we are against the Safawis," the station proclaims.
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But of course they were!
This new Islamofascist propaganda TV station would save lots of money if they just broadcast "Fahrenheit 9-11" over and over again...
If we can't hone in on that broadcast signal and vaporize the facility, then we've got no business there.
One case where I condone censorship. Hopefully in the convenient 2,000 pound JDAM variety.
"Insurgent TV channel turns into Iraq's newest cult hit"
Do we owe Iraq anything anymore?
I have no doubts that this is why The Guardian is writing about and promoting this propaganda TV station...
Oh really? Yeah I'm sure the 80% Kurdish and Shia Iraqis are just loving this Sunni-Jihadist crap. I guess it's rather the Guardian who thinks this to be a cult hit... Despicable A**holes.
Al-Zawraa, here's a little picture for you.
Enjoy your music.
Are you really buying that Guardian leftist crap? Why should it be a "hit" in Iraq when 80 or more percent are described as enemies and traitors by this "channel"!? It's al-Qaeda and the Guardian who think this to be a "hit"... not Iraq.
Isn't the Guardian forbidden to run on FR?
It durned well should be. Talk about propaganda!
This describes CNN doesn't it?
"Insurgent TV, turns into Iraq's newest CRATER" (A direct hit!)
When our troops begin their Surge, they will have the restrictions of "Rules of Engagement" off their backs. I have a feeling that this 'Broadcaster' will disappear rather quickly.
how cute, the Democrats have their own channel now.
You can taste the arrogant glee of the Guardian "reporter" typing these lines! No offense to those who post this on FR (in this case DogByte6RER), but why do we give the liberal liars a platform? We already know how they think...
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