Frontline - PBS - Must See TV - Tues 6/21

[FreedomAngel82]

No link. I got it in my Email so I'm assuming it's pbs.org

Snip: <This Week: "Private Warriors" -- Tuesday, Jun. 21, 2005 PBS
(check your local listings)

Inside FRONTLINE: A first encounter with the private side of the
Iraq war

Louis Wiley Jr., Executive Editor of Frontline says :

"There is a story in Iraq that I'd call 'the elephant in the room' -
the huge role of private contractors in the war effort."

There are as many as 100,000 civilian contractors and approximately
20,000 private security forces in the country.
In "Private Warriors,"...you will get an eye-opening look behind the
scenes at the Halliburton subsidiary, KBR, the largest company
running U.S. military supply lines and operating U.S. military
bases. You'll also enter the world of the private security firms
that are performing many military functions. The tension between
these security teams and the military is just one simmering and
largely unreported problem in the private side of this war. The
problem is reflected in an incident that didn't make it into the
film, but which producer/correspondent Martin Smith shared....

"It didn't take long for our story to slap us in the face. We had
just arrived in Kuwait and were driving to Camp Arijan, southwest of
Kuwait City. It's a major staging area for the Iraq war. Captain
David Tippett would be greeting us somewhere outside the first
checkpoint to clear us in. Tippett's a guy a lot of journalists know
well as he has helped hundreds move through Kuwait and over the
border into Iraq ever since the early days of the war. He's a savvy
public affairs officer, and I knew we were in good hands. >

[Ilsa]

1. Hijack here: also showing, The Education of Shelby Knox

this week on one of the PBS shows. I thought it was Frontline, but I may be wrong. This is about a very Republican girl in Lubbock TX who figured out that teens weren't being given an education on life skills, like birth control, in high school. She switched and is now a liberal Dem Christian.

On edit: It's on Point of View (POV). http://www.pbs.org/pov/pov2005/shelbyknox/

Thanks for the heads-up about the Private Contractors story. I'll also be watching the Spurs Tuesday night for Game 6.

[nikraye]

5. This teen has it all together...she was interviewed today

on the Al Franken show on Air America.

[FreedomAngel82]

7. Ooh yeah

Was she the girl who was telling Laura about the abstience program Bush did in Texas and he wants to do in the country? It's where she was informed and all her classmates came to her for information about condoms, birth control etc.

[FreedomAngel82]

6. Awesome

I love some of the PBS "Nightlines." :D

[warrens]

9. Thanks for the tip, it's on right after Frontline tonight in Chicago

[BayouBengal07]

2. Do they wear uniforms?

Remember the Bush administration skirted rights of captured people in Afghanistan calling them "enemy combatants" rather than POWs because they had no uniforms and weren't fighting for a country or army.


Could those contractors be enemy comatants if captured? If one is, do we have the right to demand him back if we deny the same rights to the ones we detain?

[etherealtruth]

3. Thank you ....

I heard an excellent piece, on NPR, where the producer (or one of the producers)talked about her experience and the documentary -----It was really interesting (and uncomfortable at times).

[Pharlo]

4. From the website:

Private Warriors
Tues., June 21

VIDEO CLIP

HIGH LOW


FRONTLINE returns to Iraq, this time to embed with Halliburton/KBR, and to take a hard look at private security contractors like Blackwater, Aegis and Erinys, who play an increasingly critical role in running U.S. military supply lines, providing armed protection, and operating U.S. military bases. These private warriors are targeted by insurgents and in turn have been criticized for their rough treatment of Iraqi civilians. Their dramatic story illuminates the Pentagon's new reliance on corporate outsourcing and raises tough questions about where they fit in the chain of command and the price we are paying for their role in the war.

Private Warriors concludes FRONTLINE's 23rd broadcast season. We will be back in October with new programming, but check your local listings over the summer for rebroadcasts or watch any of the 50 programs streaming in full on our Web site.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/

[bettyellen]

8. ......

[mohinoaklawnillinois]

10. Thanks for the heads up. I'm setting the VCR

in case I fall asleep during either of these "must see" programs.

[LightningFlash]

11. Corporate Media gaining more guts? Is it happening?