Beheading Videos Replace Porn As Favorites In Baghdad

[Kadie]

Beheading Videos Replace Porn As Favorites In Baghdad
Explosion Of Porn Had Filled Post-Saddam Iraq

POSTED: 12:14 pm EDT September 27, 2004

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- In an outdoor food market under the fierce midday sun, a crowd of men and boys were watching video footage of a truck bomber seated behind the steering wheel, smiling and murmuring his last words before crashing into U.S. military vehicles on an overpass.

Elsewhere, the TV set in a coffee shop was offering customers the video of foreign hostages being beheaded.

In a city battered and traumatized by 17 months of violence that seems to grow worse by the day, real-life horror has become the viewing fare of choice, supplanting the explosion of pornography that filled the post-Saddam Hussein vacuum.

Baghdad wakes up each day to explosions, gunfire, ambulance sirens and the clatter of low-lying American helicopters. But the ferocity of this month's violence in the heart of the Iraqi capital is unprecedented -- fierce gunbattles, car bombings that claim dozens of lives, brazen kidnappings, assassinations and barrages of mortars and rockets.

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[Jacobin]

1. Clue phone ringing for those

who think we should stay in Iraq to continue the carnage.

They fucking watch videos of Iraqis killing americans and they like it better than sex.

[demoman123]

2. Ah, there's nothing like a good beheading to arouse the kundalini!

Oops! The kundalini is Hinduism. :)

[0007]

3. Booing in poor taste! You are not seeing "jyoti"

[demoman123]

5. Then this is not the path to enlightenment?

Your boo fills me with despair. If watching a good beheading will not lead me to jyoti, what should I do? :)

[0007]

7. You've already answered your own question!

[demoman123]

9. I guess I must be pretty smart, then!

:)

[Vox_Reason]

6. Now if that doesn't wake some people up...

I don't know what will.

"They fucking watch videos of Iraqis killing americans and they like it better than sex."

Way to get to the heart of the matter, Jacobin.

[geek tragedy]

4. Stay the course--Iraqis are on our side.

[Nihil]

8. So ... cutting off is now better than pulling off?

Or, perhaps, there may be a little bit of selective reporting going on
here ... check out the "hack & slash" shelf of any video store ...?