10/7/2005
WGBH Program - Frontline
American Soldier says,
A representative from WGBH asked if I would post their upcoming program. I do enjoy the angle that WGBH has with the war. So mark your calendars and tune in that night.
WHAT HAPPENED AND WHY?
FRONTLINE INVESTIGATES THE TORTURE QUESTIONFRONTLINE Presents
“THE TORTURE QUESTION”
Tuesday, October 18, 2005, at 9 P.M. ET on PBSIn mid-August, a FRONTLINE documentary crew made the perilous journey
to the Abu Ghurayb prison in Iraq. Entering the 280-acre compound in
the middle of the night, escorted by helicopters and a convoy of armed
Humvees, the crew was following 50 detainees fresh from the
battlefield. As they were ordered to kneel in formation on the
concrete floor, one detainee nervously asked the FRONTLINE cameraman,
“Is this Abu Ghurayb?” The answer brought a shudder.Abu Ghurayb has always been a terrifying place to Iraqis — Saddam
Hussein used it as his primary torture chamber — but in 2004, when
graphic photographs of American soldiers abusing prisoners surfaced,
Abu Ghurayb took on deeper meaning.“The details of what happened in those cellblocks between the American
soldiers and Iraqi detainees are well known,” says producer/director
Michael Kirk, “but how and why it happened is what took us into the
heart of Abu Ghurayb that night.”In The Torture Question, airing Tuesday, October 18, 2005, at 9 P.M.
ET on PBS (check local listings), FRONTLINE traces the history of how
decisions made in Washington in the immediate aftermath of September
11 led to a robust interrogation policy that laid the groundwork for
prisoner abuse in Afghanistan; Guantanamo Bay, Cuba; and Iraq.Read more here… http://www.pbs.org/frontline/torture/
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Dagnabit, I have class on Tuesday.
and I won’t be home until well after 9 p.m. 
Do you know if they’ll rebroadcast it?
I am also a soldier, about to complete my second tour in Iraq. The Abu Ghraib scandal is an unfortunate event in our time in Iraq. Embarassing. I just hope that the world will understand that it was the acts of a few…and exception and not the norm.
Those of us that truly support our troops know that what happened were only the very few. The terrorists are not afraid of death, their cult of Islam worships it so how can a person make a terrorist want to tell any information that he might know. Threaten his life? They are not afriad to die. So to get information must be difficult to do for our troops.
Our troops Rock and I am soooo proud of all of them.
I agree with Wild Thing. I support our troops also and I know that there was very few that did the Abu Gharib thing and I don’t blame any of the rest of our soldiers for what happened.
To me all our soldiers are heroes because you guys volunteer and you lay your lives on the line so ordinary citizens like me can go about our lives without fear. I thank all of you from the bottom of my heart for serving….you keep us free!!
Kat,
You’ll be able to watch the whole program online (http://www.pbs.org/frontline/) a few days after its initial broadcast.
Repeat schedules for individual PBS stations vary by market, so you should either contact your local station directly or look it up on the FLN web site.
Woohoo! Thanks Jessica!
Dittos go out to everyone. I just wish they would show our Soldiers in a different light as well. Ya know? Balance? Oh, wait a minute. This is TV and the media. What WAS I thinking??!!
Considering Frontline’s history of propagandized programming I rather watch CBS’s Fake but Accurate Reporting, at least their programming is clownish and funny to watch.
I can’t believe that anyone would believe anything that has anything to do with PBS.
Have you watched the program? If you have, perhaps you will understand what true investigative journalism is all about. It is a shame that Frontline is the last of a dying breed that actually researches what they report.
If you haven’t seen the program, perhaps you should. Frontline does an amazing job of hanging the Bush administration with its own words and actions. In fact, the program makes you feel sorry for the troops that are over there. With poor management from the White House and terrible conditions to operate in, it makes you feel that the poor saps caught on fim should NOT have been the ones going to jail.
Go Mark!
I saw the program, it was fair and balanced and we should hold the people on the top responsible. The nuckleheads that think it was an isolated incident obviously are those wonderful flag waivers that blindly believe and trust our top leaders. Wake up people! A true patriot supports their Country all the time and their government when they deserve it! These S.O.B.’S don’t deserve it they deserve jail time for creating a huge terrorist problem out of a moderately small one, killing and maiming our troops, and killing 10’s of thousands Iraqi civilians.
Yes 911 happened, we need to fight terrorism, but this ain’t the way. We played right into Osama’s game, to make us look like the bad guys. Our stupidity is sad and dangerous.