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Mysterious 'Saddam Channel' Hits Iraq TV
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| Sunday, November 29, 2009 12:06 PM
Posted on 11/30/2009 8:17:39 AM PST by maddog55
BAGHDAD -- Turning on their TVs during the long holiday weekend, Iraqis have been greeted by a familiar if unexpected face from their brutal past: Saddam Hussein. The late Iraqi dictator is lauded on a mysterious satellite channel that began broadcasting on the Islamic calendar's anniversary of his 2006 execution. No one seems to know who is bankrolling the so-called Saddam Channel, although the Iraqi government suspects it's Baathists whose political party Saddam once led. The Associated Press tracked down a man in Damascus, Syria named Mohammed Jarboua, who claimed to be its chairman. The Saddam channel, he said, "didn't receive a penny from the Baathists" and is for Arabs who "long for his rule." Jarboua has tried hard to hide where it's aired from.
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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: iraq; saddam; satellitetv
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To: Buckeye McFrog
That's the rule in the industry: For every 'good' channel you must take two, communist,socialistic,brainwashing,obscenity laden ed, American hating channels as well. Otherwise those channels would have absolutely no revenue to keep pumping their lies and sewage into American households.
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11/30/2009 8:54:49 AM PST
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Outlaw Woman
(If the First Amendment is taken away, we will be forced to move on to the next Amendment)
To: mylife
That’s disgusting. But they did say they offered it to the McCain camp as well.....and of course, limp wrist obviously didn’t take Dish up on its offer. Not that it would of helped at that stage.
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11/30/2009 9:06:07 AM PST
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Outlaw Woman
(If the First Amendment is taken away, we will be forced to move on to the next Amendment)
To: maddog55
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11/30/2009 9:08:44 AM PST
by
reagan_fanatic
(Socialism is hip until somebody loses a paycheck)
To: maddog55
Lock onto it’s frequency, jam it then kill the transmitter. Standard ARM and HARM tactics apply here.
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11/30/2009 9:18:32 AM PST
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pfflier
To: Outlaw Woman; mylife
Two movies...”By the People: The Election of Barack Obama” and “Senator Obama Goes to Africa”...are still playing on HBO.
To: ravingnutter
That's appalling. I've been without TV for several months now. The only thing I miss is fox but there are other sources for news. The most appalling thing about the networks and the individuals working in the industry, is they no longer even make the pretense of being fair or apolitical. They flip off America everyday and want us to ‘go away’.
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11/30/2009 9:51:11 AM PST
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Outlaw Woman
(If the First Amendment is taken away, we will be forced to move on to the next Amendment)
To: mylife
We already have that it’s called Main Stream Media...
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11/30/2009 11:07:05 AM PST
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maddog55
(The enemy is domestic and it's the government.)
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