Reality Iraqi TV Show Plants Fake Car Bombs on Celebrities! What's next, reality torture TV?

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Reality TV Iraqi Style: Show Plants Fake Car Bombs on Celebrities
By Jonathan Turley
September 6, 2010

In perhaps the most frightening example of how life in Iraq has been permanently mutated by the war, a reality television show has gained popularity with the angle that they plant a bomb in a celebrity’s car and then have the bomb discovered at a checkpoint. The laughs just keep rolling like bodies from a blast.

The show is called “Put Him in Bucca” — named after one of our former prison complexes in Iraq. The show is a hit during the month of Ramadan. However, some (sane) people have objected that this is tasteless to the extreme. It turns out, however, that television executives are the same everywhere and the show’s management insists that it will continue to make merry with mass killings.

http://jonathanturley.org/2010/09/06/reality-tv-iraqi-style-show-plants-fake-car-bombs-on-celebrities/#more-26421


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Punk’d, Iraqi-Style, at a Checkpoint
By YASIR GHAZI
September 3, 2010

BAGHDAD — An Iraqi reality television program broadcast during Ramadan has been planting fake bombs in celebrities’ cars, having an Iraqi army checkpoint find them and terrifying the celebrities into thinking that they are headed for maximum security prison.

The show “Put Him in Bucca” has drawn numerous protests but has stayed on air throughout the fasting month, broadcasting its “stings” on well-known Iraqi personalities.

All of them were ensnared by being invited to the headquarters of the private television station Al Baghdadia to be interviewed, but en route to the station a fake bomb would be planted in their car while they were being searched by Iraqi soldiers, who were in on the deception.

The unwitting celebrities are then secretly filmed, Candid-Camera-style, as they reacted with shock, disbelief and anger as fake checkpoint guards shout abuse at them: “Why do you want to blow us up?” “You are a terrorist.” “How much did they pay you to do it? You will be executed.”

Read the full article at:

http://atwar.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/09/03/punkd-iraqi-style-at-a-checkpoint/





Fake bombs: A popular Iraqi reality TV show sees celebrities pranked by having fake bombs planted in their cars

[mike r]

1. Coming Up Next: Celebrity Waterboarding

Very disturbing indeed.

[DJ13]

2. Can we start with Sarah Palin?