Three from T.V. Show Found Slain in Iraq

[Hissyspit]

Source: Los Angeles Times

3 from TV show found slain in Iraq
12:00 AM CDT on Sunday, September 14, 2008

Los Angeles Times
BAGHDAD – The TV show is one of the country's most popular, a form of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition in which a television crew surprises needy Iraqis with food and gifts during the holy month of Ramadan.

On Saturday, as Sharqiya TV personnel zeroed in on a family reeling from losses, kidnappers zeroed in on them. Hours later, three people from the station and their driver were found shot to death on the outskirts of Mosul, a northern city that has been plagued by al-Qaeda in Iraq and other Sunni Arab insurgent groups. Elsewhere in the country, bombs killed at least 12 more people.

The abduction happened as Farida Adil, a host of Breaking Your Fast Is on Us, waited in an apartment with the family that was to be featured in the next episode: a woman with six children, whose husband had died in a January bombing.

Ms. Adil was about to go outside when someone told her the crew had been abducted. She covered her hair with a scarf, put on a long black abaya and slipped away. "They were like my brothers," she said later, weeping.

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[Skittles]

1. anyone want to go there to buy rugs with me?

it sounds just like Indiana, no? THE SURGE WORKED I TELLS YE.

[MichaelHarris]

2. maybe

Sarah can do a flyover and shoot a bunch of shit.

[Hissyspit]

4. Wolves and caribou can't shoot back. nt

[ColbertWatcher]

3. k+r, n/t

[EmilyAnne]

5. Well, at least we know Sarah Palin had nothing to do with this. You know, since she never set a

foot in Iraq.

Maybe she could see the murders being committed from Kuwait?

[doc03]

6. Since Sarah Palin telegraphed to the world

when and where her son Trick or Treat or whatever his name is will be deployed. What do you think will happen if an insurgent in Iraq picks him up. She endangered her own son's life for political gain. The British took Prince Harry out of Afghanistan when his location was leaked and she tells the enemy where to find her son.

[hay rick]

7. Keeping family out of it.

Unwed daughter pregnant? Palins are victims of liberal media prying into private lives so they can smear a good Christian family.

Son being deployed to Iraq? Quick! Call a "we're so patriotic" news conference!

When is it our turn to have it both ways?

[doc03]

9. That has to be another lie, her son enlists on Sept 11, 2007

and gets deployed to Iraq on Sept 11,2008, how convenient. Where the hell has he been for the last year, Basic and AIT doesn't usually take a year. They even showed him to the whole world at the convention, they know he is in Iraq, what his job is and have his picture.

[Ronbeaux]

11. Track had to get cleaned up before he went...

The crystal meth was a bit more pervasive than originally thought.

[annabanana]

8. Anything that smashes the appearance of "normality" in that poor

Country will probably have cataclysmic repercussions. I will be watching for reports of "statements" about this from the leaders of the different factions. They may tell us more about the actual situation in Iraq than ANYTHING we hear from western media...

[Postman]

10. Whose idea was it to make a game show out of their misery?

That the Bush Administration caused....

Or is this another example of our superior culture that is to win over the Islamic world.....

[mallard]

13. Re: 'Whose idea was it?'

You make a valuable inquiry concerning a very telling event - one which absolutely proves the degree of BS being spun over the entire US campaign in Iraq. Thanks so much for getting to that important point.

I would say there are folks in the Iraqi media being 'coached' by worldwide broadcast types who might be from London or Hollywood, or who knows ... even Bollywood. But the influence to draft public acceptance of complacency over tragedy is severley insulting to victims of a broken culture. After all, they didn't have the need for this form of 'entertainment' before they got turned into a living hell on earth - for naught. The show only reminds them how badly they've been screwed.

Abduction and murder is serious crime. This may have been a kidnapping for ransom gone 'bad', but we're just fed the line about the motive being money, as in greed, without much supporting evidence.

Iraqis are not calming down and reaching for the popcorn. There's no popcorn to pop. The Bush-cons are being as elusive and elitist as any pre-emptive war criminals in western history, and for what they've tried to advertise and sell as a 'program' for post-Saddam Iraq. They really have sorry little to offer below the bottom line - including an all-important, enforced false belief 'spell' requisite as a pledge of allegiance for all public sector employees - related to the events of 9/11/01, their own ultimate vehicle of self-promotion ... using a staged, Hollywood action scenario.



PS: Palin is starting to look like something of an undeclared 'cultist', or in military jargon, 'witch'.

[Swagman]

12. isn't democracy fun ?

[dweller]

14. ah ... Iraqi reality tv - n/t

dp