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Al Jazeera: Iraq
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Founded in 1996, Al Jazeera ("The Island" in Arabic) was the first 24-hour news channel in the Arab world. Little known in the U.S. until September 11th, the notoriety of this "Arab CNN" has exploded since then, and has grown during the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
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Instapundit writes about the possibility that Al Jazeera is connected to the terrorists and opposition fighters in Iraq. He links to this article by Robert Alt at the Daily Standard, where the evidence continues to come out. Take this part of the piece:
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During the Iraq war, Al Jazeera faced the same reporting and movement restrictions as other news-gathering organizations. In addition, one of its reporters, Tayseer Allouni, was expelled from the country, while another one, Diyar Al-Omari, was stripped of his journalistic permits by the Iraqi Information Ministry. Reacting to this, Al Jazeera announced on April 2, 2003, that it would "temporarily freeze all coverage" of Iraq in protest of what Al Jazeera described as unreasonable interference from Iraqi officials.[29] All of these decisions were later reverted.
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The efforts of Al Jazeera exposed the fraudulent bullshit spread by the Pentagon, as they attempt to make the ridiculous assertion that you can conduct bombing campaigns in urban areas while only harming politicians and other people like that. Shock and Awe would appear to be a dismal failure from what I have seen of it, simply because the Pentagon is not doing Hiroshima the right way, and consequently Iraq is not yet shocked and in awe of the Pentagon and ... collapsing like Japan did in World War 2, and giving up without a fight. According to those who designed that theory of Shock and Awe urban areas were to be pounded 'not in weeks, or days, but rather in minutes' and here the Pentagon is back to typical bombing as in a typical war, while still calling that sorry excuse for a bombing campaign 'Shock and Awe'. Shock and awe it is not, and therefore we can assume that protests and activism have at least spared Iraq (for now) the very worst of the evils of Hiroshima and true 'Shock and Awe' strategy, but however we must remember, that even though the Pentagon has decided not to do the full Shock and Awe thing to Baghdad right away, the target list is spread out all over the city, including residential neighbourhoods, and you just don't bomb cities without people getting killed.
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On Monday, 24 March 2003, shortly after the start of the invasion, two Al Jazeera reporters covering the New York Stock Exchange had their credentials revoked. The New York Stock Exchange banned Al Jazeera (as well as several other news organizations whose identities were not revealed) from its trading floor indefinitely. NYSE spokesman Ray Pellechia claimed "security reasons" and that the exchange had decided to give access only to networks that focus "on responsible business coverage". He denied the revocation has anything to do with the network's Iraq war coverage.[51] The move was quickly mirrored by Nasdaq stock market officials.[52]
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A senior editor for Al Jazeera says the tape offers no evidence of ties between al-Qaeda and Saddam Hussein. “When you hear it, it doesn’t prove any relation between bin Laden or al-Qaeda group and the Iraqi regime,” he argues.
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