From Iraq - its Interrogation TV

Newsweek: He wasn't supposed to live, and the way he tells the story today, this "suicide bomber" wasn't quite ready to die. Twenty-one year old Ahmed Abdullah al-Shayea had come to Iraq from Saudi Arabia to join the infamous terrorist known as Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi in a holy war against the American infidels. On Christmas morning, 2004, he got his first assignment, to park a tanker truck full of explosives near the high walls around the Jordanian Embassy in Baghdad. He didn't know that four fellow terrorists in a Jeep Cherokee following a safe distance behind held the remote-control trigger. When they pushed it, an explosion thundered across the city, killing 10 Iraqi policemen. But al-Shayea, unlike scores of other bombers who've been vaporized beyond recognition, was blown through the windshield and, against all odds, survived. Link


It had to happen, reality TV knows no bounds. Third-degree burns over seventy percent of his body, bleeding, dazed, confused, and yet here he is, paraded before our eyes. Undeserving of pity, a subhuman species frightened and in pain being gently questioned by Iraqi security for our viewing pleasure. Given that which we already know, it is fair to assume that off-camera, the treatment may well be a little different. But why worry?