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• Your Talk of the Nation segment on Al-Jazeera on November 13, with Fouad Ajami was incredibly one-sided and filled with inaccuracies and outright falsehoods. ... Ajami has his agenda and his views which he is perfectly entitled to express on your program, but his view of Al-Jazeera should not be presented as the definitive interpretation of "What the Muslim World is watching. ...
• There are many people in this country who defended Al-Jazeera against just such unfair attacks as Mr. ...
• I have also produced summaries and translations of some of Al-Jazeera's coverage, which I have monitored very closely, and as a close watcher of the media I would dispute almost every assertion Mr. ... Ajami provided no evidence for his assertions but simply made ad hominem attacks on Al-Jazeera's reporters saying without any basis that they are "pan Arabists and Islamists" as if holding a specific set of political views precludes one from being a professional. He also said that "incitement" was the "trademark" of Al-Jazeera. ... But the point is that you should have presented another view of Al-Jazeera including perhaps someone from its bureau or from its head office in Qatar who could have answered the unfair charges that Mr. ...
• I know that they are quite willing to participate in such programs, as I participated in a radio program with Al-Jazeera's head of news this very morning.
• What Al-Jazeera has successfully done, and what so many people are loath to acknowledge, is to shatter the myth that Arab or Muslim opinion is monolithic. By presenting only one view of Al-Jazeera, and a very hostile and embittered one at that, you seem to be doing your best to restore that idea.
• For months Al-Jazeera's correspondent Taysir Allouni risked his life to bring images out of Kabul that US networks relied on. ...

• 140:80/al-jazeera .

• al-Jazeera, the global madrassa.
• Al-Jazeera's correspondent in Washington, Wajd Waqfi, challenged the American media to broadcast the footage of dead American soldiers and of prisoners of war. ...
• Mohammed al-Said Idriss, who is serving as al-Jazeera's analyst on the war in Iraq, claimed that the "American media is an arm of the American government," adding that its role is to prepare the psychological ground for U. ... As a result, he explained, neutral media — such as al-Jazeera — are needed to "uncover lies. ...
• Following the sharp criticism of the Iraqis for breaching international law, al-Jazeera asked one of its advisers to provide additional defense arguments. ...
• So, is al-Jazeera a media outlet or a political organization? Answer: It's both. ... " Despite the nickname, however, al-Jazeera is nothing like Western media outlets, which operate independently of government mandate in countries that guarantee freedom of the press. ...
• engagement began, two audiotapes were aired by al-Jazeera in which Osama bin Laden called on Muslims to fight for Baghdad as the "second capital of Islam" — not as the center of Saddam's Baath. al-Jazeera was to use the term repeatedly, slowly building up the illusion that such a jihad would be fought for Iraq, not for Saddam. ... That call, now "news," in turn was broadcasted by al-Jazeera. ... By the time allied forces invade Iraq and the region's fundamentalist masses explode, al-Jazeera has not merely reported the fact — it has created it. ...

• BBC signs deal with al-Jazeera.
• The BBC has signed a news-gathering deal with al-Jazeera, the television news channel that has become well known in the West for its intimate contacts with al-Qa'ida.

• October 2001—Last March, New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman gushed that Qatar's wildly popular 24-hour news satellite channel Al-Jazeera www. al-jazeera. ...
• administration sees as Al-Jazeera's anti-American bias and inflammatory coverage of the aftermath of the September 11 terrorist attacks, the press has adopted a more critical eye. As the United States wages a "war on terror," Al-Jazeera remains the sole foreign broadcaster in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan (and Osama bin Laden's preferred news outlet for transmitting messages). ...
• To Al-Jazeera's defenders, the station is a reliable, professional, and informative news channel that reflects the perspective of its audience but also tries to present all sides of the story. ...
• There is little question that Al-Jazeera has revolutionized Arabic-language television news in a region that for decades has been accustomed to the stale, heavily censored offerings of state-controlled television. Founded in 1996 with a start-up grant of US$140 million from the Qatari government, Al-Jazeera has quickly become the most watched—and most controversial—news channel in the region, winning over viewers with its bold, uncensored news coverage, its unbridled political debates, and its call-in-show formats that tackle a range of sensitive social, political, and cultural issues. ...
• Recently, Yasser Arafat's Palestinian Authority temporarily closed Al-Jazeera's Ramallah bureau because of a promotional trailer for a documentary series about the Lebanese civil war that contained an unflattering image of the Palestinian leader. ...
• officials had asked him to use his influence to rein in Al-Jazeera's news coverage. ... Embassy in Qatar had filed a formal diplomatic complaint with Qatari authorities regarding Al-Jazeera's coverage. Bush administration officials made it clear afterward that they were upset by what they viewed as Al-Jazeera's unbalanced and anti-American coverage. Officials said they feared that Al-Jazeera's replays of its exclusive 1998 interview with Osama bin Laden were stirring up fundamentalist feelings in the region. ...
• government was angered when Al-Jazeera broadcast an unconfirmed report that Taliban forces had captured U. ... government officials expressed concern that taped messages from Osama bin Laden and his terrorist network, Al-Qaeda, originally aired on Al-Jazeera and rebroadcast by U. ...
• During the administration's offensive against Al-Jazeera, U. ... Although the Qatari government subsidizes Al-Jazeera, the station has been generally well regarded for its editorial independence. ...

• On the basis of information provided to IPI, Qatar’s emir, Sheikh Hamid bin Khalifa al-Thani, confirmed that he was asked by the US State Department, during a recent visit to Washington, to use his government’s influence to soften the reporting stance of the independent Qatari-based television station al-Jazeera. ...
• He then went on to say, "Parliamentary life requires you have free and credible media and that is what we are trying to do," and "Al-Jazeera is one of the most widely watched television stations in the Arab world because of its editorial independence and its willingness to provide a platform of controversy. ...
• Denying the criticism, al-Jazeera stated it gave both the US and Afghanistan positions equal air time. ...
• The attempt to influence the editorial independence of al-Jazeera comes one week after the US State Department attempted to prevent an interview with the leader of Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban militia, Mullah Mohammed Omar, being aired on the US radio station Voice of America. ...
• In 1999, Saudi Arabia and Algeria both sought to apply pressure on the Qatari government over al-Jazeera. ...
• On a related issue, the 2000 edition of the US State Department’s Human Rights Report, when discussing Qatar and al-Jazeera, states, "the privately owned satellite television channel al-Jazeera operates freely. ...

• Hack Attack Hits Al-Jazeera Site for Showing U. ...
• The English-language Web site for Al-Jazeera's Arab satellite television network was replaced Thursday with a U. ...
•     Because it showed the graphic, bloody images of American prisoners of war executed by Iraqi forces earlier this week, the English-language Web site of Arab satellite television network Al-Jazeera (english. ...
•     On Thursday morning, though, a shadowy hacker group calling itself the "Patriot Freedom Cyber Force Militia" claimed responsibility for actually hijacking the Al-Jazeera site and redirecting it to a patriotically themed Web page depicting a red, white and blue United States map with the message, "God Bless Our Troops. ...
• But merely taking the bogus Al-Jazeera creation offline did not prevent the 75,000-customer Utah ISP from bearing the wrath of anti-war hackers enraged by Al-Jazeera's cyber-abduction. ...
•     However, no sooner than Networld took down the bogus site, Al-Jazeera's Web site was waylaid once more to other ISPs. ...
•     At one point, even Al-Jazeera's Arabic-language site was being diverted -- to one promoting pornography. ...
•     Experts surmise the method used to detour traffic from the real Al-Jazeera site to hacker-created ones was so-called "DNS poisoning. ...
•     Jihad Ali Ballout, a spokesman for Al-Jazeera, was apparently not impressed with the creativity involved. ...
•     And how did hackers slip their detoured Al-Jazeera site onto Utah's Networld, even if only for 2 1/2 hours? Bowman said they took advantage of the ISP's free online Web site design template -- a service offered to member families. ...
•     As the operator of the ISP, he was upset with his network's security being breached; as an American, he understands the rage over the gruesome pictures Al-Jazeera aired. ...
•     "What Al-Jazeera has done I am totally against," Bowman said. ...

• It was noticeable that he did so not on CNN, but on the Arab world's premier satellite channel, Qatar's Al-Jazeera. ...
• However, that's exactly what occurred last week when the secretary of state, Colin Powell, asked the Emir of Qatar, Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, to put a lid on Al-Jazeera because of its hostility to recent U. ...
• Nevertheless, Powell was right in seeing Al-Jazeera as a serious obstacle blocking U. ...
• Al-Jazeera also happens to be the most uninhibited and freewheeling Arab news outlet around. ... In a region where television, radio, and newspapers are usually state-owned and crushingly dreary, Al-Jazeera has been a popular breath of fresh air. ...
• Instead, Al-Jazeera has emerged as just another mouthpiece for Arab frustration. Though the Bush administration might benefit from listening to dissent, Al-Jazeera has had profit as well as rebellion on its mind: As the only station broadcasting from Taliban-controlled territory, its audience has soared. As a result, Al-Jazeera lately signed a lucrative agreement with CNN, granting the Atlanta-based station priority in broadcasting its footage from inside Afghanistan. ...
• In this intricate ambiance, Emir Hamad has used Al-Jazeera's overt militancy as a shield protecting him from his domestic and regional antagonists. ...
• The Bush administration would do best to adopt a different tack when dealing with Al-Jazeera. ... Al-Jazeera has proven that the Arabs are not sheep when granted legitimate forums for argument and dissension. ...

• Al-Jazeera Takes Center Stage.
• Cursor is not affiliated with Al-Jazeera. ...
• Al-Jazeera's Web site in English.
• How Al-Jazeera gets around.
• Get Al-Jazeera at home.
• Al-Jazeera: General information.
• Google 'Al-Jazeera'.
• Google News 'Al-Jazeera' .
• After checking out Cursor's Al-Jazeera archive, please visit our home page for a daily-updated digest of alternative perspectives on media politics and war. ...
• The audio tape message, broadcast by Al-Jazeera, praises the continuing violence against U. ...
• The war on al-Jazeera: The US is determined to suppress the independent Arab media.
• Al-Jazeera Airs Scoops Despite Criticism.
• Al-Jazeera has come under criticism and even military attack, and now one of its star reporters is charged with being an al-Qaida member.
• officials who accuse the station of giving terrorists a platform — will not force Al-Jazeera to change. Al-Jazeera is willing to pay "the price of success," he said.
• Spanish judge orders Al-Jazeera reporter to jail.

• The independent Arab satellite television channel, Al-Jazeera, is enormously popular in the Arab world. ... Al-Jazeera also has been criticized in the United States for what some consider anti-American reporting following the September 11th attacks. ...
• Al-Jazeera may be notorious in the West for carrying exclusive taped broadcasts of Osama bin Laden and other al-Qaeda leaders, but here in the Arab world, the station is better known for its programs and talks shows that give critics nearly free rein to blast Arab governments. Political science professor, Waheed Hashem, says Al-Jazeera's programming has gone too far. ...
• SEELYE: Kuwait recently shut Al-Jazeera's local office, calling the station's broadcast hostile. ... In September, Saudi Arabia also withdrew its ambassador from Qatar reportedly in response to an Al-Jazeera show that criticized the kingdom's founder, King Abdulaziz Al-Saud. Hashem says Al-Jazeera is highlighting sensitive issues that do not serve the Arab cause. ...
• SEELYE: Al-Jazeera officials insist that the station is just providing a forum for dialogue and debate in an independent environment. ... But university Professor Halidal Dahil(ph) says Al-Jazeera is not as independent as it claims to be. ...
• Professor HALIDAL DAHIL: Al-Jazeera is the mouthpiece of the Arabs. ...
• DAHIL: You will notice that Al-Jazeera always target Egypt and Saudi Arabia, the largest states in the region, exposing their positions. ...
• SEELYE: Saudi dissident Mossilen Oraji(ph) appears frequently on Al-Jazeera. ...
• MOSSILEN ORAJI (Saudi Dissident): Al-Jazeera did something which is not imaginable, you see. ... Al-Jazeera has started to highlight these things. ...
• But Oraji says regardless of what Arab governments do, Al-Jazeera will remain the number one station for most Arab viewers. ...
• ORAJI: The officials themselves when I went to meet them, I found them, you know, turning their TVs on Al-Jazeera. They are blaming Al-Jazeera, but watching Al-Jazeera. What about the Arabs? Everybody now is watching Al-Jazeera. ...

• SPJ urges New York Stock Exchange to reconsider Al-Jazeera credentials.
• INDIANAPOLIS-- The Society of Professional Journalists on Tuesday asked the New York Stock Exchange to reconsider its decision to revoke credentials issued by it to reporters working for Al-Jazeera. ...
• The Associated Press reported Tuesday that the Arab TV network Al-Jazeera said Monday two of its reporters covering the NYSE have had their credentials revoked because of the satellite station’s coverage of the war in Iraq. Al-Jazeera officials said they have covered the exchange for years and believe theirs is the only channel affected by the new curbs.
• “A decision to deny Al-Jazeera reporters credentials does nothing to support our country’s image as a place where the free exchange of ideas and information serves as the foundation for everything America does. ...
• “It appears the Al-Jazeera reporters are victims of an old trick whose time has passed. As financial reporters, they certainly should maintain their ability to cover The New York Stock Exchange, regardless of what some might think about Al-Jazeera’s coverage of other global issues, including the war with Iraq. ...
• military officials on Sunday criticized Al-Jazeera for carrying Iraqi TV footage of U. ... Al-Jazeera is based in the Persian Gulf state of Qatar, which also hosts the U. ...

• Kuwaiti Decision to Close Al-Jazeera Office Criticized.
• The general secretary of Journalists Without Borders demanded that Kuwaiti authorities reverse its decision to close down Kuwait’s Al-Jazeera office last Sunday. ... Menar’s criticism came after the Kuwaiti Foreign Minster, Ahmad Sabah had confirmed the decision to close down Al-Jazeera office in Kuwait was final. Mr Sabah said, “The decision to close Al-Jazzera down was not against our brothers in Qatar because Al-Jazeera doesn’t represent Qatar; it only represents itself. ” Meanwhile, the Kuwaiti press Minister, Ahmad Al-Fahed said that though Al-Jazeera is distinguished in its press coverage in general, its coverage of Kuwaiti issues has not been neutral, which gives Kuwait the right to take special measures, especially taking into consideration that Al-jazeera is only a private news agency and does not represent Qatar. The decision to close Al-Jazeera came after it broadcast a report about the closure of the northern area of Kuwait, which represents about one fourth of Kuwaiti lands. ... Algeria too was so concerned over Al-jazeera’s coverage of their elections that they decided to cut the electricity in an entire city so Al-Jazeera could not broadcast their report. ... government also was angered when Al-Jazeera broadcast Ben Laden video tapes during the War in Afghanistan. While it may seem that Al-Jazeera is having troubles with Arab leaders, in reality these kinds of troubles are making al-Jazeera more popular. ... One should keep in mind that the controversial material that Al-Jazeera continues to cover is not only politically challenging to Arab leaders but also to male religious figures. ... Al-Jazeera’s popularity indicates that segments of the Arab world are unsatisfied with their living conditions and that they are looking for ways to transform their living conditions. ...

• Qatar's Al-Jazeera TV: The Power of Free Speech.
• Consider what it has had to contend with over the last month: In April, Libya abruptly withdraw its ambassador after the emirate's state-funded Al-Jazeera satellite television station broadcast an interview with a Libyan opposition figure. Shortly thereafter, the Iraqi government lodged a complaint with Qatari officials when Al-Jazeera reported the enormous expenses of Saddam Hussein's lavish April 28 birthday celebration. On May 2, Tunisia's ambassador complained to Qatar's foreign ministry about a program on Al-Jazeera that accused his government of human rights violations. ...
•     Such reactions are nothing out of the ordinary for Qatari diplomats, who have received over 400 official complaints from other Arab states about Al-Jazeera's relatively uncensored news broadcasts and controversial political commentaries since its establishment three and a half years ago. Kuwaiti officials regularly complain that Al-Jazeera's news coverage is too sympathetic to Iraq. ...
•     Every Arab regime has found something in Al-Jazeera's programs to complain about--which is precisely why it is by far the most popular satellite news channel in the Middle East. ...
•     A few months later, the new Emir of Qatar, Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, took advantage of this fortuitous development by establishing Al-Jazeera and hiring most of the BBC Arabic Service's editors, reporters and technicians to form the nucleus of its staff. ...
•     Al-Jazeera has not made that transition--in fact, the Qatari government has been spending around $100 million each year to sustain the station, which has been unable to attract enough advertisers. ... State sponsorship of Al-Jazeera clearly impacts the objectivity of its coverage of political developments within the Emirate, though not as much as one might expect. ...
•     Qatar's sponsorship of Al-Jazeera has helped the country achieve a level of regional and international influence way out of proportion to its military and economic strength in recent years. ...
•     However, Al-Jazeera's precise function as an instrument of Qatari foreign policy is not easily discernible. ...

• Home   >   Opinion   >   Article The US media could learn from al-Jazeera.
• Al-Jazeera, the Arab-language cable TV news service, has just celebrated its seventh birthday. ...
• I had met three al-Jazeera staff at an international media conference in Dublin, where they had debated the international coverage of the Iraq war with 200 war reporters from around the world.
• The al-Jazeera version of the war - with one exception - was vastly preferred to that presented by the US media.
• The al-Jazeera staff were given a hostile reception by the colleagues of several dead journalists, whose corpses had been shown graphically on the Arab service. ...
• As I watched the 32 monitors across the entire rear wall of the newsroom, keeping track of every major TV outlet in the world, al-Jazeera broadcast pictures from the scene in about eight minutes.
• Abused by many Western governments - and commentators - as being a mouthpiece for Osama bin Laden, al-Jazeera is also decried in some Muslim countries as being nothing but a front for the CIA. ...
• With a current budget of about $A42 million, al-Jazeera has pioneered a new era of uncensored media for the Arab world. ...
• The staff of al-Jazeera come from throughout the Arab world - 22 nationalities in all. ...
• I was unaware that al-Jazeera is banned in several Arab countries. ...
• So does al-Jazeera represent a cultural shift in the Middle East? "I don't want to sound pompous, but it is a mini-revolution," says Ballout. ...
• And complaints to the network? "There are many - we invite anyone to come onto al-Jazeera Platform, which is a live-to-air listener feedback show - no personal attacks or abuse, but a vigorous exchange of views is guaranteed. ...
• If George Bush and his allies want to fight extremist Islam and buttress the modernists in the Arab world, he ought match the Emir of Qatar and give al-Jazeera another $42 million. But then al-Jazeera would lose its credibility in the Arab world.
• Maybe President Bush should ask al-Jazeera for some advice on how to introduce some of its BBC-based journalistic values into the American popular media instead. ...

• Al-Jazeera Web site hacked.
• WASHINGTON (AP) -- Hackers on Thursday replaced the English-language Web site for Arab satellite television network Al-Jazeera with a U. ...
• Hackers calling themselves the "Freedom Cyber Force Militia" earlier hijacked Internet traffic destined for Al-Jazeera's Web site and redirected it to a different Web page on computers operated by Networld Connections Inc. ...
• Internet records show the Web directories sending traffic to Al-Jazeera's site were changed early Thursday, apparently without authorization. ...
• "Certainly, it has been hacked," acknowledged Jihad Ali Ballout, a spokesman for Al-Jazeera. ...
• Al-Jazeera, based in Qatar, is an unusually independent voice in the Arab world. ...

• Attack closes Al-Jazeera web site.
• The Web site of Arab satellite television network Al-Jazeera, which has been plagued by hacking attacks since it showed pictures of dead U. ...
• The outage was at least partly due to an apparently defensive move by Al-Jazeera's Web host, according to Brian O'Shaughnessy at VeriSign Inc. ...
• Al-Jazeera's Web host changed data on servers used to direct Web visitors to the site, perhaps in an attempt to protect itself against hacking. ...
• , a company that tracks Web performance, said it succeeded in fewer than 1 percent of its attempts to reach Al-Jazeera's English-language site from different locations in the United States. ...
• Al-Jazeera, also based in Qatar, is an unusually independent voice in the Arab world. ...

• Al-Jazeera to reach out to West with Web site.
• NEW YORK (Reuters) - Al-Jazeera, the Arab satellite television channel known to broadcast statements from Osama bin Laden, will reach out to the West starting in February with an English-language Web site.
• We are very conscious of our pole position in world media terms at the moment,'' Joanne Tucker, managing editor of al-Jazeera's English-language Web site, said Friday.
• Al-Jazeera -- based in the tiny Gulf Arab state of Qatar -- began broadcasting in 1996, bringing scrutiny to governments in the Middle East where many of the region's news outlets are under some form of official control.
• Al-Jazeera is already offering English subtitles on two talk shows about religion and politics. ...
• Tucker said al-Jazeera hoped to offer English voice-overs of Arabic news bulletins on the TV channel by the middle of next year and launch an English-language channel by the end of the year or early 2004.

• The debate over the legality and appropriateness of al-Jazeera TV's decision to broadcast film of dead British soldiers - on the day that Index on Censorship honoured the station for their special contribution to the free exchange of information during years of crisis in the Arab world - will keep lawyers and journalists arguing for a long time to come. ...
• Entirely by coincidence, on March 26 Index on Censorship honoured the Qatari-based satellite TV station al-Jazeera with a special award for its courage in circumventing censorship, exactly at the moment the network was facing a storm of condemnation for broadcasting film of dead British soldiers.
• The reaction against al-Jazeera was intense. ...
• To others it still a question as to whether al-Jazeera, an independent state broadcaster owned by the Qatari government, or the British BBC, an independent state broadcaster funded by a form of tax on viewers - are not technical extensions of their states. ...
• After British Prime Minister Tony Blair expressed "horror" and the decision to broadcast footage of the corpses and British officials asked al-Jazeera not to screen it again, the channel defiantly reserved the right to use its editorial judgement on the matter. Senior producers at the Qatar-based satellite channel would make an editorial judgment about the footage on any given day, said an al-Jazeera spokesman, based on "newsworthiness and relevance" but would not just rebroadcast it "for the hell of it". ...
• And as awful as the footage of the two dead British soldiers screened by al-Jazeera was, it moved the poor men from the unspeakable limbo of "missing in action" to "killed in action" - the place from where their loved ones can move on. ...
• Index on Censorship has the opportunity, through the Agence France Presse news agency, to publish right here, a screen shot of the al-Jazeera footage that has effectively been banned from the British media at the request of its defence ministry.
• An in-house debate on whether or not to do so covered the editorial and ethical difference between print and internet publication; scores of morbid people have already tried searching for the 'banned al-Jazeera film' on our website. ...
• It would have been entirely reasonable for al-Jazeera to assume that the next-of-kin of the dead British soldiers would not be among the likely viewers of an Arabic language satellite TV station viewable by subscription only in the UK. ...
• Al-Jazeera's quest to present the savage reality of war in Iraq to its viewers has led it to show the most appalling footage of dead women and children. ...
•  Al-Jazeera calls on US to ensure free press: AP report via Yahoo!.
•  Al-Jazeera struggles against continued hacker attacks. ...
•  "Al-Jazeera tells the truth about war" says a senior editor.

• In defense of al-Jazeera.
• From the ashes of BBC Arabic rose al-Jazeera, a satellite channel funded by the Emir of Qatar and other Arab moderates who had recognized during BBC Arabic’s short life that the long-term interests of Islam would be served best by truth rather than censorship. ...
•        The first time most Americans heard the name al-Jazeera was Sunday, Oct. ...
•        Secretary of State Colin Powell denounced al-Jazeera for airing “vitriolic, irresponsible kinds of statements” when it broadcast a videotaped statement by suspected terrorist Osama bin Laden praising the Sept. ...
• , al-Jazeera suddenly found itself being equated with the former Communist mouthpiece Pravda or Hitler’s National Zeitung.
•        Today, al-Jazeera is staffed by many of the same journalists I saw weeping in London that day, including Azar. ...
• The chairman of Qatar's al-Jazeera satellite TV network, Sheikh Hamad bin Thamer al-Khalifa, talks to the media last week.
•        The network’s bureaus around the region are periodically closed because of al-Jazeera’s insistence in airing stories about the corruption of government officials in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Syria and elsewhere. Israeli officials and journalists, all but banned from other Middle Eastern networks, are staples on al-Jazeera, whose motto is “We get both sides of the story. ...
•        To truly understand how wrong it is to attack al-Jazeera, one needs to consider two points. ...
•        Second, the fact that bin Laden’s zealous murderers chose al-Jazeera as a way to get their message out has very little to do with the fact that al-Jazeera is the Middle East’s only free news network. ...
• Al-Jazeera worked hard covering the Afghan story when the very notion of doing so would have been dismissed at an American news meeting. ...
•        In contrast, al-Jazeera — and the BBC, until its correspondent was ejected by the Taliban — stayed in Kabul through the 1990s to cover a civil war that has been raging, in part with American weaponry, for more than a decade. So do we blame al-Jazeera for covering this war? As Fox would say, ‘You decide. ...
•        Happily, the attacks the Bush administration launched on al-Jazeera recently backfired so completely that Washington quickly shifted tactics, suddenly granting long-denied interviews with officials like Powell and Rice. Now, there’s even talk of buying time on al-Jazeera to broadcast some kind of paid political advertisement about the conflict. ... efforts to squash al-Jazeera, this will be lumped into the same category as the bin Laden campfire video: propaganda. ...

• Al-Jazeera hobbled by DDOS attackNews site targeted for second day .
• The Arab satellite television network Al-Jazeera suffered a second day of sustained distributed denial of service (DDOS) attacks against its English and Arabic language Web sites on Wednesday. ...
• The attacks have pushed the network, which is based in Doha, Qatar , off the Web for the time being and forced Al-Jazeera to increase bandwidth for the sites and step up security in a desperate effort to get back online. ...
• We come up for five or ten minutes and then the attacks bring us down again," said Salah AlSeddiqi, IT manager at Al-Jazeera. ...
• AlSeddiqi and others describe a powerful and coordinated attack on Al-Jazeera's Web sites that began on March 25, shortly after the network published photos of U. ...
• Beginning on Tuesday, Al-Jazeera was hit with traffic in excess of 200 Mbps and up to 300 Mbps, he said.
• With the commencement of hostilities, however, traffic to Al-Jazeera's sites had spiked to more than 150 Mbps, AlSeddiqi said. ...
• The attacks were described as a DNS (Domain Name System) flood attack by Joanne Tucker, managing editor of Al-Jazeera's English language Web site, whose address is http://english. ...
• In response to the attacks, Al-Jazeera attempted to increase its bandwidth allocation, but the attackers scaled their efforts to meet the increase, according to AlSeddiqi. ...
• As a result of the sustained attacks, the Qatar company that managed the site told Al-Jazeera on Wednesday that its U. ...
• That company, DataPipe, a service of Hoboken Web Services, in Hoboken, New Jersey , said in a statement that it provided hosting services to the Qatar company that managed the Al-Jazeera site, but had ended its relationship with that company. ...
• DataPipe did not have a contract or a relationship with Al-Jazeera itself, the company said.
• Al-Jazeera was told that its site would continue to be hosted only until the end of March, AlSeddiqi said.
• The recent attacks and the decision by one of its Web hosting companies has IT staff at Al-Jazeera suspicious of larger forces that may be at work. ...
• A security expert familiar with Al-Jazeera's troubles said the news network appeared to be suffering both from an IRC (Internet Relay Chat) "bot" attack and from increased demand due to the outbreak of hostilities in Iraq and the launch of its English language site. ...
• While the volume of traffic to Al-Jazeera's Web sites was high, a network of between 1,000 and 5,000 compromised machines could easily generate that level of traffic, Ullrich said. ...

• The Only Show in TownIs Al-Jazeera helping Osama bin Ladenâ ”or just defending freedom of speech?At work: Al-Jazeera staff at the station's headquarters in the Qatari capital of Doha.
• 22 issue - Many local television stations in the United States have more impressive headquarters than the Al-Jazeera Satellite Channel in the tiny Persian Gulf emirate of Qatar. ... Al-Jazeera, rightly or wrongly, has gotten a reputation as the Osama bin Laden Network.
• And when bin Laden or his Al Qaeda spokesman wants to make a statement, they have a tape dropped off at the Al-Jazeera offices in Kabul. ...
• But Al-Jazeera Managing Director Mohamed Jasem al-Ali, 46, is unrepentantâ ”and a little baffled. ...
• â œDo you think there should be only one opinion? Should we deal with only one side?â � Although Washington has criticized the network for inflaming opinion, Al-Jazeera often acts as a corrective for the incendiary rumors circulating on the Internet, on the streets and in other less responsible media of the Muslim world. ...
• In fact, itâ ™s precisely because Al-Jazeera presents the most balanced and verifiable Arabic news that the majority of people in the Middle East have ever seen broadcast that itâ ™s become such a powerful force after only six years on the air. ...
• Al-Jazeera started operations in 1996 with a six-hour-a-day schedule. ... He saw Al-Jazeera as a way to publicize the new liberalism on his little peninsula, which has only about 100,000 citizens. The result, as al-Ali wryly notes, is that, in terms of its reputation, â œAl-Jazeera has become bigger than Qatar. ...
• Al-Jazeera covered the violence up close, with great emotional impact. ...
• But Al-Jazeera also prides itself on the fact that it was the first Arab TV station to invite Israelis onto its shows, providing at least a semblance of balanced coverage by allowing them to argue their case. ...
• Today, Al-Jazeera is planning to expand. ...

• US should wake up and use Al-Jazeera.
• Now that the US and the Middle East are on a collision course over military action against Iraq, American officials need to exert more effort to communicate with the Arab people through effective channels like the Al-Jazeera satellite network. ...
• An obstacle to this is the misguided perception that Al-Jazeera is an anti-American network that increases Arab animosity toward the US. While Americans may be most aware of - and perhaps prejudiced about - the network for its broadcasts of audiotapes of Osama bin Laden, the reality is that Al-Jazeera is a mere vehicle for information, a vessel through which ideas and opinions from all possible sides are disseminated and public discourse is forged.
• Since its inception in 1996, Al-Jazeera, Arabic for "the island," has won the respect of millions of Arab viewers. ...
• Before Al-Jazeera, there were no public affairs interviews, no talk shows, no free debate, no viewer participation, and hardly any live coverage. With its vivid debates, daring commentary, and multiple perspectives, Al-Jazeera appears to be breaking new media ground by venturing into a realm of open discussion rarely attempted by other broadcasters in the region - so much so that it has been perceived as serving as a de facto forum for pan-Arab political debates.
• Al-Jazeera's motto is "The Opinion and the Other Opinion. ...
• But now those viewers follow "The Arab World's CNN" - Al-Jazeera. ...
• During its coverage of the Afghanistan war, Al-Jazeera encouraged US officials to appear on its live panels, talk shows, and round-table discussions. Only a few officials, such as Christopher Ross, special adviser to the State Department and former US ambassador to Syria, appeared on Al-Jazeera's talk shows. On one of these shows, which discussed the bombing of Al-Jazeera's bureau in Afghanistan in November 2001, Mr. ...
• Other American officials, such as Secretary of State Colin Powell, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld also appeared on Al-Jazeera to explain the official US line during the Afghanistan war. ... Al-Jazeera's Arab audiences need exposure to more views from US officials who can address viewers effectively and persuasively and can engage in lively debates with Arab officials and scholars.
• And even those who do speak Arabic haven't really made the effort to connect with the Arab world by appearing on Al-Jazeera.
• If US officials want to gain Arab support, they need to use the Middle East's own best weapon: the credible, popular, and powerful Al-Jazeera news network. ...

• The United States is preparing to launch an Arabic-language television station in the Middle East, as part of a media counterattack aimed at boosting the US image in the region and reducing the influence of Al-Jazeera, the "CNN of the Arab world. ...
• "I cannot imagine another reason to have it, except to counteract what Al-Jazeera does in trying to spread its own message," he pointed out. ...
• Al-Jazeera, which means "the island" in Arabic, was founded in 1996 in Qatar and now has an estimated audience of 55 million viewers. ...
• In addition, the Americans protested what they saw as Al-Jazeera's biased coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and its references to Palestinian suicide bombers as "martyrs. ...
• The Al-Jazeera bureau in Kabul was hit by an American shell in November 2001, with the United States insisting it was a mistake. ...
• Stephen Hess, a specialist on media issues with the Brookings Institution, a think tank in Washington, believes a US counterpart of Al-Jazeera amounts to "trying to make some impression in the Arab world. ...

• Did the US mean to hit the Kabul offices of Al-Jazeera TV? Some journalists are convinced it was targeted for being on the 'wrong side'. ...
• The US had scored a direct hit on the offices of the Qatar-based TV station Al-Jazeera, leading to speculation that the channel had been targeted deliberately because of its contacts with the Taliban and Osama bin Laden. ...
• Gowing's argument was that Al-Jazeera's only crime was that it was "bearing witness" to events that the US would rather it did not see. Indeed there is no clear evidence that Al-Jazeera directly supported the Taliban - simply that it enjoyed greater access than other stations. Certainly, Al-Jazeera reflects a certain cultural tradition: but only in the same way that CNN approaches stories from a western perspective. ...
• Gowing demanded that the Pentagon be called to account for the destruction of Al-Jazeera's Kabul office. ...
• Al-Jazeera is not an agent of a state, and few (except perhaps the US military) would claim that it is an agent of Bin Laden. But the fact that Al-Jazeera has reported in such depth the other side of this conflict is troubling to the authorities. "Al-Jazeera has been providing some material that has been very uncomfortable," Gowing said at News World. ...
• Other news organisations, by treating Al-Jazeera in a semi-detached fashion, had not helped: at the start of the war the BBC had described it as a "pro-Taliban broadcaster", McCullagh said. ...
• Al-Jazeera certainly believes it was a target. ...
• On Monday, Al-Jazeera executives in Qatar called their correspondent in Kabul and told him to leave, because they feared for his safety after the Northern Alliance took over. ...
• US officials have criticised Al-Jazeera's coverage of the bombing campaign as inflammatory propaganda. ...
• The US would have known, therefore, that Al-Jazeera had ordered its Kabul correspondent to leave, but would not have realised he was still in the city. ...
• Speaking to the conference from the US military's central command centre in Florida, spokesman Colonel Brian Hoey denied that Al-Jazeera was a target. ...
• Col Hoey said the Pentagon did not have the location co-ordinates of the Al-Jazeera office in Kabul even though the broadcaster said it had passed them on, several times, via its partner CNN in Washington. ...

• Hackers replace Al-Jazeera Web site with American flag.
• Hackers on Thursday replaced the English-language Web site for Arab satellite television network Al-Jazeera with a U. ... " The hackers, calling themselves the "Freedom Cyber Force Militia," briefly hijacked Internet traffic destined for Al-Jazeera's Web site and redirected it to a different Web page on computers operated by Networld Connections Inc. ... Internet records show the Web directories sending traffic to Al-Jazeera's site were changed early Thursday, apparently without authorization. ... A spokesman for Al-Jazeera confirmed the incident but said he had no further information. ... Al-Jazeera, also based in Qatar, is an unusually independent voice in the Arab world. ...
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