Shortly after the Afghan war releases, he became the subject of a sex crime case in Sweden.

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The aim was to lampoon the suggestibility of public figures willing to repeat, with feeling, any nonsense they are told, the bogus gravity of much current-affairs television, the hypocritical voyeurism of media coverage of sex and crime, and a lot else besides.

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Consider the fact that a mass audience of media consumers is now devouring a story about an alleged sex crime committed by someone most of them never heard of.

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