{"id":3207,"date":"2005-04-07T14:29:22","date_gmt":"2005-04-07T22:29:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/index.php\/archives\/2005\/04\/07\/reality-tv-hits-iraq\/"},"modified":"2005-04-07T14:29:22","modified_gmt":"2005-04-07T22:29:22","slug":"reality-tv-hits-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2005\/04\/07\/reality-tv-hits-iraq\/","title":{"rendered":"Reality TV hits Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tA TV reality show featuring captured terrorists is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A26402-2005Apr4.html?sub=AR\">big hit in Iraq:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>BAGHDAD &#8212; Iraq&#8217;s hottest new television program is a reality show. But the players are not there by choice. And they don&#8217;t win big bucks, a new spouse or a dream job.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, all the characters on &#8220;Terrorism in the Hands of Justice&#8221; are captured suspected insurgents. And for more than a month, they have been riveting viewers with tales of how they killed, kidnapped, raped or beheaded other Iraqis, usually for a few hundred dollars per victim.<\/p>\n<p>Seated before an Iraqi flag, the dejected and cowed prisoners answer questions from an off-camera inquisitor who mocks their behavior. Some sport bruised faces and black eyes. Far from appearing to be confident heroes battling U.S. occupation, they come across as gangsters.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I watch the show every night, and I wait for it patiently, because it is very revealing,&#8221; said Abdul Kareem Abdulla, 42, a Baghdad shop owner. &#8220;For the first time, we saw those who claim to be jihadists as simple $50 murderers who would do everything in the name of Islam. Our religion is too lofty, noble and humane to have such thugs and killers. I wish they would hang them now, and in the same place where they did their crimes. They should never be given any mercy.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s funny what a little truth can do.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A TV reality show featuring captured terrorists is a big hit in Iraq: BAGHDAD &#8212; Iraq&#8217;s hottest new television program is a reality show. But the players are not there by choice. And they don&#8217;t win big bucks, a new spouse or a dream job. Instead, all the characters on &#8220;Terrorism in the Hands of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2005\/04\/07\/reality-tv-hits-iraq\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Reality TV hits Iraq&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-PJ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}