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An Al Jazeera crewman was shot in the foot by Israeli soldiers while filming in Nablus after the start of the summer war in Lebanon. At just about the same time, the station's Jerusalem bureau chief, Walid al-Umari, was arrested twice and questioned whether he was broadcasting the precise sites of Hizbullah's rocket attacks to help Hizbullah gets its range. Both times al-Umari was released after a few hours, and Seaman confirmed his statements to investigators that Al Jazeera's footage did not divulge where Hizbullah's rockets were landing.
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Al Jazeera has been harshly criticized in the West for providing airtime to terrorists like Osama bin Laden, but it notes that American networks borrowed that material. It was ... the first Arabic network to give Israelis air time. “Al Jazeera was seriously attacked by Arabs — Islamist, nationalist, and even governments like Saudi Arabia — for inviting Israeli journalists and government officials to present their point of view,” Atwan said.
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In response to Al Jazeera, a group of Saudi investors created Al Arabiya in the first quarter of 2003. Despite (especially initial) scepticism over the station's Saudi funding (cf. History) and a perception of censorship of anti-Saudi content,[69] Al Arabiya has successfully emulated Al Jazeera, garnered a significant audience share, and has ... gotten similarly involved in controversy – Al Arabiya has been severely criticised by the Iraqi and US authorities and has also had journalists killed on the job.[70]
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Recently, Al Jazeera has ... broadcast reports debunking coalition claims of an uprising in Basra on March 25, its correspondent claiming that there was no sign of anti-Saddam rioting in the city. British Prime Minister Tony Blair later conceded reports of the event were “confused.”
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"Al Jazeera is going to have a very tough time online because it's really not a Website," he said. "It's a broadcast, and there is no history to suggest that basically watching TV on your computer is going to be very popular or attract much of an audience."
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Al Jazeera, which is based in Qatar, is ... available on the Pentagon's closed-circuit television system for troops and officials. But the main cable providers, such as Time Warner and Comcast Corp., have avoided it.
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