Tick Off All the Right People: Watch NBC’s ‘The Wanted’ Tonight

Published July 27, 2009 9:50pm ET



How often is it that one hour of TV viewing can annoy terrorists, the New York Times, and Human Rights Watch? Take advantage of this infrequent confluence by watching “The Wanted” on NBC tonight at 9/8 c. Here’s the premise:

Eight years after the Sept. 11 attacks and the beginning of the war on terror, leaders and supporters of terrorist organizations still lead free and open lives around the world. More than a decade after the Rwandan genocide, its practitioners still roam the United States. The government seems unable – and sometimes unwilling – to change this state of affairs. NBC’s new program “The Wanted” aims to push the issue, entertaining audiences while bringing the accused to justice: Its team of terrorist trackers hops the globe collecting evidence about its targets in order to persuade extradition-shy countries to stop dragging their feet. The team consists of former Green Beret Roger Carstens, former Navy SEAL Scott Tyler, war-crimes prosecutor David Crane and producer-journalist Adam Ciralsky. In the series premiere last week, the team went after the founder of Ansar al-Islam – which the State Department lists as a terrorist organization – who lives freely in Oslo and has yet to be extradited to Kurdistan to stand trial.

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