Roger Carstens and Charlie Ebersol discuss NBC's new series "The Wanted" on "Morning Joe"

Why I Joined 'The Wanted'
by Roger D. Carstens (more by this author)
Posted 07/20/2009 ET in Human Events

I am now also teaching Jihad. You must know. And against American soldiers. You must know this also. These words were spoken to me only a few weeks ago by Mullah Krekar -- the founder of the Iraqi terrorist group Ansar al Islam -- from the comfort of his home in Oslo, Norway.

Some call him bin Laden 2.0

Krekar, a man who has been declared a terrorist by Iraq, Jordan, the European Union, and the United Nations, has apparently escaped any form of extradition, deportation or arrest, as the Norwegian government has decided not to take any action against him.

I wish I could say that the Mullahs case and circumstances were isolated -- but they are not. All around the world, including the United States, terrorists, mass murderers and those indicted for war crimes are living among us -- and little is being done to shine a light on this fact.

Until now.

Tonight at 10 PM Eastern Standard Time, NBC will debut its controversial show, The Wanted. The show can best be described as a follow doc: news cameras follow a former Navy SEAL, an investigative journalist, a former war crimes prosecutor, and a former Green Beret as they investigate and confront those accused of the most egregious crimes against humanity.

I am the Green Beret.

I came to the show honestly. Just over a year ago, I was a Senior Fellow at a DC-based think tank, the Center for a New American Security (CNAS). I had come to CNAS directly from the Army -- or more accurately -- directly from Iraq, where I had served as a Special Forces advisor to the Iraqi National Counter Terror Force.

I was at work one day, merrily typing away, when my phone rang. On the other end was a colleague from another think tank, who asked, hey, Roger, want to be on an NBC TV show?

Absolutely not, I responded. Are you sure, he pursued. The show is about chasing down those who perpetrated the genocide in Rwanda in 1994.

Yeah I want in on that, I responded.

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[breimosi]

In the first episode they travel to Oslo to stake out Mullah Krekar's apt. Why they try to be under cover is a mystery. Anyone living in Norway knows that you can get in touch with this guy if you want, by simply calling him and promise some attention in form of a camera. ridiculous show

[Teerins]

;o

That is Maria's husband. :P

[Slatkamala3]

@thegreendestiny He's not ugly, i even think he deserves better one.

[lmacorp]

The point of this great show was to show that these terrorist scumbag creeps live amongst us and are non-detectable unless identified. We all want to know who our neighbors are, dont we?

[troir]

weak and fake .... must you be desperate !!!

[thegreendestiny]

They broke up. Maria's now with an ugly Serbian basketball player :-(

[idasorknes]

I like their target group for the screening. Capitol Hill is probably an objective bunch of homies.

[rockerogue]

Haha, too funny. What a couple of jackasses..