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Title Dateline: Field of Dreams/McAfee's Murder Mystery/Sex Mountain
Published Australia : SBS ONE, 2014
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Summary FIELD OF DREAMSOvercoming incredible obstacles, the Palestinian football team has qualified for its first top-tier international competition - in Australia. But just touching down here for the Asian Cup in January will be a struggle for players living under Israeli occupation. The Palestinian Football Association still doesn't know who it will be able to send - players and officials are often turned back at the border. Coach, Saeb Jendeya, survived the recent war in Gaza, but his home is in ruins. He has a permit to travel to Ramallah, but risks arrest to attend training in nearby Jericho. He tells the team, "You're not just sportsmen, you carry a message to the world, saying 'We have the right to a country and a better life.'" On Tuesday's Dateline Amos Roberts meets footballers who are scoring some memorable goals on and off the pitch.MCAFEE'S MURDER MYSTERYJohn McAfee's life story could be straight out of a movie, but the tale of the Silicon Valley multi-millionaire, turned international playboy and Caribbean murder suspect is very real. On Tuesday's Dateline, there's another chance to see David O'Shea's look inside McAfee's world. He meets the man behind the headlines and sees the women and weaponry that have become his trademark. But while it was his computer anti-virus software that made McAfee a household name, it's now the mysterious death of his neighbour in Belize that everyone is talking about. McAfee fled to Guatemala, saying he feared being framed over Greg Faull's shooting, but it only raised more questions about him and his eccentric lifestyle. In interviews with McAfee himself, Greg Faull's family in the US, and some of the women constantly at McAfee's side, David O'Shea tries to unravel this intriguing murder mystery. A week after our original broadcast, Greg Faull's estate filed a lawsuit in Florida accusing McAfee of shooting Faull in the head or having him shot. McAfee's former girlfriends Amy Herbert and Samantha Vanegas were also named in the lawsuit. McAfee says he's prepared to be questioned by authorities over the murder in any country except Belize. He also says he will file a counter claim against Faull's estate for defamation of character and personal injury. SEX MOUNTAINFor a country and religion where sex out of wedlock is taboo, the idea of a mountaintop sex ritual for Muslims in Indonesia may seem unlikely. But on Tuesday's Dateline, Patrick Abboud films on Gunung Kemukus, otherwise known as Sex Mountain, where thousands make a regular pilgrimage to have sex with strangers. Based on legend dating back to the 16th century, they believe seven visits and prayers to the adulterous prince Samudro will bring wealth and luck. "Please grant me great financial good fortune... please give me lots of money to pay my debts," regular visitor Mardiyah prays at the temple. "If I get lots of money, I'll go to Mecca, that's my ambition," she tells Patrick. Many of the pilgrims are married - adulterous sex is condoned at the holy site according to the custom. If they can't find someone to sleep with, some pay prostitutes. Rooms by the hour are for hire at this Islamic holy site. "I don't tell my wife. There's no way she'll find out," one pilgrim tells Patrick on camera. You won't see this ritual anywhere else in Indonesia or the rest of the Muslim world. It's a very Javanese blend of religious ideals - with Islamic, Hindu and Buddhist influences. Sex Mountain brings in thousands of dollars and even has the backing of the local government, but it's too much of a contradiction for some. "The Islamic religion forbids it, but they don't want to know that," says Sex Mountain expert Professor Kuntjoro. "They're more interested in profit, they leave religion behind." With sexually transmitted infections on the rise too, are pilgrims really leaving with just the happiness they'd hoped for?
Notes Closed captioning in English
Event Broadcast 2014-11-18 at 21:30:00
Notes Classification: NC
Subject Celebrities -- Drug use.
Football -- Social aspects.
Football teams.
Islam -- Rituals.
Sex -- Religious aspects.
Short films.
Oregon -- Portland.
Middle East -- Palestine.
Indonesia -- Java.
Form Streaming video
Author Rao, Anjali, host
Abboud, Patrick, reporter
O'Shea, David, reporter
Roberts, Amos, reporter
Champagne, Jerome, contributor
Jendeya, Saeb, contributor
McAfee, John, contributor
Soeparno, Koentjoro, contributor
Vanegas, Samantha, contributor