Snip from Michael Ignatieff's piece in this week's NYT Magazine :
"We now have the terrorist as film director. One man taken hostage recently in Iraq described, once released, how carefully his own appearance on video was staged, with the terrorists animatedly framing the shot: where the guns would point, what the backdrop should be, where he should kneel, what he should be scripted to say."
Link (Thanks, Slavin)