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• officials pressured Qatar in an attempt to influence the news coverage of the Qatar-based Al-Jazeera satellite channel. ...
• secretary of state Colin Powell, Qatari ruler Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani acknowledged that U. ... officials had asked him to use his influence to rein in Al-Jazeera's news coverage.
• government apparently feels that Al-Jazeera's programming has been unbalanced and anti-American, particularly in the aftermath of the September 11 terrorist attacks in New York City and Washington, D. ...
• Embassy in Qatar filed a formal diplomatic complaint with Qatari authorities regarding Al-Jazeera's coverage.
• Founded in 1996, Al-Jazeera is the most widely watched news channel in the Arab world. ...
• Although the Qatari government subsidizes Al-Jazeera, the station has been widely praised for its editorial independence. Over the years, Al-Jazeera has drawn a steady stream of complaints from Arab governments angered by its reporting.
• "Arab government attempts to influence Al-Jazeera have garnered widespread attention over the years. ...
• officials were particularly disturbed by Al-Jazeera's frequent airings of its exclusive December 1998 interview with Osama bin Laden. ...
• government was also irked by airtime given to analysts who expressed anti-American views and by an unconfirmed Al-Jazeera report that Taliban forces recently captured U. ...

• Al Jazeera's English Website, 25 March 2003.
• update, 08 April 2003: Al Jazeera's English-language site is back online.
• >>> Starting the very day that Al Jazeera's English-language Website launched, the "CNN of the Arab world" has been constantly hacked with denial of service attacks, spamming, hijacking, etc. ...
• Latest news and info about Al Jazeera (via Cursor. org) | Europeans Flock to Al-Jazeera.
• click here for the mirror of Al-Jazeera .
• Some readers have said that the Al Jazeera mirror isn't working for them. ...
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• Al Jazeera in the Balance Is the world's most popular Arab TV network a public-access channel for terrorists or a small sign of Westernization? by Christopher Caldwell 10/11/2001 12:01:00 AM .
• Of course they didn't--the footage came from Al Jazeera, the Qatar-based independent news network. ... In France last week, there was a ruckus in the Arab media when Al Jazeera began broadcasting "snow. " Rumors flew that the station had been "censored" by the French state--and they were quelled only when Al Jazeera revealed that it had changed from analog to digital without telling anybody. ...
• National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice criticized Al Jazeera for the broadcast, on the grounds that, among other things, it could be used to send coded messages to terrorist "sleepers" in the United States and elsewhere. More generally, Secretary of State Colin Powell (who has himself been interviewed on the network) recently asked the Qatar authorities to curb Al Jazeera altogether. ...
• Well, we are at war, for one thing, and Al Jazeera has broadcast plenty of stuff just as ferocious as bin Laden's pronouncements. ...
• appeaser of Israel, any video or press release that Hamas or al Qaeda has chosen to disseminate, and Saddam Hussein's call for resistance against the United States in 1998. Al Jazeera is, in fact, Saddam's favorite TV station. ... bureau chief Hafez Al-Mirazi sensibly told the New York Post that the tendency of thugs to seek it out shouldn't necessarily undermine the station's reputation for journalistic integrity. "It's the same reason that the Unabomber would send a letter or a fax to the New York Times," Al-Mirazi said. ...
• For one thing, Al Jazeera is an exception to the Saudi-subsidized stranglehold of Wahhabite chauvinism over education and media in the West (see Stephen Schwartz's article "Saudi Friends, Saudi Foes" in the October 8, 2001 Weekly Standard). ... When the new emir of Qatar, Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, deposed his father in 1995, he decided to subsidize Al Jazeera to the tune of either $100 million a year or $100 million over the past decade, depending on whose press reports you believe. ...

• A few months ago Egyptian audiences turned on their televisions and found Adel Abdel Meguid, convicted terrorist for his role in plotting bombings in Egypt, as a guest on the show "Al Intigah Al Muaqis" ("Opposite Directions") on the Qatari-based Al Jazeera satellite channel.
• It is programs like those that have prompted an outcry among Egyptian government officials and intellectuals that Al Jazeera television is anti-Egyptian.
• In fact, most of the leaders of the Arab world claim that Jazeera Television is specifically directed against their government and aimed at promoting strife.
• On 8 November, Jordan closed down Al Jazeera's bureau in response to a program featuring Jordanians debating the merits of the peace process.
• A sustained campaign against the station in the newspapers has started, such as the 14 November editorial in the semi-officiAl Akhbar Al Youm criticizing Information Minister Safwat Sherif for not shutting down the Cairo office of the station (Sherif replied that there is no official Cairo office). ...
• Mustafa Bakri, the editor of the independent weekly Al Isboa, told Middle East Times that the station broadcasts many lies just like the Sunday Telegraph and he opposes it because it is anti-Egyptian. ...
• This negative view is not necessarily shared by Egyptians themselves who, by all accounts, are watching Al Jazeera television just as much as their Arab counterparts around the region. ...
• When Al Jazeera television showed up at the Kafr Al Dawar rail disaster, Egyptians could be seen coming up to the correspondent (who like most Jazeera employees is Egyptian himself) and greeting him and complimenting him on his work.
• "It is a unique experiment that respects the intelligence of the Arab viewer," said Muhammad Jassim Al Ali, the station's director, to Ahram Weekly. ...
• The editor of the opposition weekly Al Shaab, Magdy Hussein, adds that the campaign against the station in the Egyptian press is a little overblown.
• The station was created by the Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Hamad Bin Khalifa Al Thani, by decree in 1996, shortly after he ousted his father in a bloodless coup. ...
• The Emir, when he established Al Jazeera, may have been thinking his small state needed to be put on the map.
• "This is part of the idea behind Jazeera," said Gohar, "creating a credibility for Qatar that did not exist before. ...
• Al Jazeera is also expected to be financially independent by the year 2001, five years following its creation.

• All, that is, except the Al Jazeera Satellite Channel broadcasting from the tiny oil sheikdom of Qatar. On its Opposite Direction talk show, Al Jazeera, which means the peninsula, gave Kuwaiti professor Abdullah Nefaisi a platform to question not only the usefulness of the regional economic body but the fitness of the Gulf monarchs to govern. ...
• But then there's Qatar, population 600,000, where Emir Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, 47, is making good on a promise of greater democracy made when he took over from his father in 1996. Since his government launched Al Jazeera later that year, the Doha-based channel has become the most freewheeling, station in the Arab world, delighting millions of viewers across the Middle East--numbed by decades of censored news on state-controlled television--and Europe and North America. ...
• Al Jazeera's talk shows are tackling crucial yet taboo subjects like human rights, women's freedom, banned political groups, polygamy, torture and rival interpretations of Islamic teachings. ... Host Faisal Al Kasim encourages controversy: many of the two-hour, weekly call-in programs have featured guests shouting to be heard, hurling insults, and even coming close to fisticuffs.
• The Jordanian government closed down Al Jazeera's news bureau in Amman after a talk show guest accused the late King Hussein of collaborating with Israel.
• In Saudi Arabia, Muslim preachers denounced Al Jazeera for corrupting Arab morals, and there is said to be a "political fatwa" forbidding Saudis from appearing on the station's shows. Nor has host country Qatar been spared: Al Jazeera has aired criticisms of the Emir's activities, notably one of his pet projects, a Middle East economic summit to which Israel was invited.
• Al Jazeera's 90 newscasters, editors and correspondents are determined to take advantage of the digital technology that helps make their broadcasting revolution possible. During the American and British bombing blitz on Iraq in December, Al Jazeera's live satellite coverage kept pace with CNN's.
• That kind of professionalism explains why Al Jazeera is the No. ... Al Jazeera's staffers are keenly aware that in 1996 Saudi partners abruptly pulled the plug on an earlier Arab news channel broadcasting from London after it aired a documentary about Saudi executions.

• The Al-Jazeera channel, based in the Gulf state of Qatar, was told by the terrorist leader to be ready to receive a videotaped message of defiance "any time" after approaching him through contacts in Kabul.
• In return the station - which used Afghans hired for their links with al-Qa'eda to assist in the deal - assured bin Laden that it was ready to broadcast his opinions in full regardless of any protests from the West.
• Downing Street was also privately infuriated that the station broadcast bin Laden's words within hours of the bombing and felt compelled to arrange a "rebuttal" appearance by Tony Blair to counter fears that al-Qa'eda had scored a propaganda success.
• The channel has played down its links with bin Laden until now claiming that his taped message last Sunday and the al-Qa'eda video which it received two days later, had been sent to it simply because its office in Kabul made it easy for the terrorist leader to contact the outside world through them.
• Ibrahim Helal, the station's chief editor, however, confessed that there were much closer links with al-Qa'eda than it previously admitted. ...
• Al-Qa'eda was getting accused. ...
• Inside the Al-Jazeera studios - a heavily guarded compound in the capital, Doha - there is little sympathy for the station's critics.
• There is, however, a great deal of pride at the fame which the bin Laden tape, the al-Qa'eda video and the subsequent footage of American attacks on Kabul has brought.
• Set up five years ago with funding from the Emir of Qatar, Al-Jazeera has an estimated 35 million viewers across the Gulf, the Middle East, North Africa, Europe, Britain and America, and has become known as the "Arab BBC".
• As well as Kabul, where it is the only operational television news organisation, Al-Jazeera has bureaux in other Gulf states, London, Washington, Paris and Brussels. ...
• If I put myself in the other camp, in the West, even politicians in the West need to know him, they need to know what al-Qa'eda thinks. ...
• Similar sentiments were expressed by Hamad bin Thamer al Thani, the chairman of Al-Jazeera and a member of the Qatari Royal Family.
• "According to all that we see throughout the world, Al-Jazeera is tops with Arab public opinion. ...
• Asked whether he was concerned that the inflammatory nature of the bin Laden tapes might result in many deaths, or if he was worried that the channel was achieving fame by broadcasting material which was inciting hatred, Mr al Thani expressed no doubts. ...
• As the bombs continue to drop on Afghanistan, the biggest challenge for Al-Jazeera now is how to prosper once their top prospect is captured or killed. ...
• Al-Jazeera in Arabic .

• The Register » Internet and Law » Al Jazeera's web site – DDoSed or unplugged?.
• The launch of Arab satellite TV network Al Jazeera's new Web site on Monday drew immediate hack attacks, but this has been swiftly followed up by the disappearance of the site's DNS records. ...
• Al Jazeera (aljazeera. ... Prior to the site's complete removal company IT manager Salah Al Seddiqui told Reuters that its Qatar-based vendor had said "US-based DataPipe could no longer host its site from the end of this month," and that Al Jazeera would be moving its servers to Europe.
• Al Jazeera had two listed nameservers - one at datapipe. ... NavLink has offices in the US (it's incorporated in Delaware), Europe and the Middle East (the UAE and Lebanon), so there's a logic to Al Jazeera using it. ...
• The problem seems to have taken Al Jazeera unawares. ...
• Al Jazeera is not, as you will no doubt have noticed, universally popular, and today in particular it has been heavily criticised by UK military spokesmen for screening pictures of dead British servicemen. ...
• This sort of thing might of course trigger legal action, but Al Jazeera itself is well-aware that it treads a very tricky line, so probably won't want to make unnecessary waves. ...
• The alternative to the conspiracy theories is that weaknesses in Al Jazeera's DNS meant they were vulnerable to load, and that the disappearance of the DNS was therefore a consequence of the attack. ...
• Europe might be some form of solution, but one might estimate that here too quite a few hosting outfits will view Al Jazeera as a poisoned chalice, a customer with a profile several notches to high.
• US companies wanting to play in the Middle East are unlikely to find their local operations going down a storm if they're refusing to do business with a popular TV station like Al Jazeera, so they'll be pressured in both directions. ...

• News From Al Jazeera .
• WBUR has discontinued its coverage of al Jazeera. ...

• The Register » Internet and Law » Al Jazeera and the Net – free speech, but don't say that.
• Arabic satellite TV network Al Jazeera's efforts to build an English-language web site have run into another speed bump. Akamai Technologies, whose "Accelerated Networks can stand up to unpredictable traffic and flash crowds for even the largest events," fired Al Jazeera last week.
• Akamai issued a statement saying it had worked "briefly" last week with Al Jazeera, but that it had decided "not to continue a customer relationship" with the channel. No reason was given for the decision, but an Al Jazeera spokeswoman told the New York Times that companies were coming under "nonstop political pressure" to refuse to do business with the channel.
• Al Jazeera launched an English-language web site at the end of last month, and this immediately came under fire on several fronts. It was hacked, DDoSed, Network Solutions was tricked into allowing the domain to be hijacked (which inspires confidence), and US host DataPipe gave it notice after what Al Jazeera claimed was pressure from other customers. The English language site was up at time of writing, but Al Jazeera clearly needs to find a robust, long-term solution, and this is equally clearly going to be very difficult indeed.
• There are many ironies to the multi-decked 'get Al Jazeera' campaign; one attack suppressed the site with the slogan "Let Freedom Ring!" (only up to a point, presumably), while practically none of those busily denying themselves the right to access it can have had time to read it in the first place. ...
• Al Jazeera protests, in fairly mild terms, that it is "increasingly appearing to be subject to a campaign designed at limiting its access to Western audiences," and this does look awfully like the truth.
• Al Jazeera's sins, it would seem to us, are as follows. ...
• Essentially Al Jazeera's 'Iraqi propaganda' activities are no greater (perhaps even rather less) than those of many liberal media outlets. ... Al Jazeera has arguably broadcast images of the Iraqi Government breaching the Geneva Convention, but that is not the same thing.
• To get this into perspective, note that one of the most striking pictures from the Vietnam war was of a South Vietnamese officer shooting a prisoner - do we argue that this should not have been published? If Al Jazeera had footage of an Iraqi shooting a British prisoner, should that be broadcast? The other way around? Are our standards today different from those of the 60s, or do the criteria differ depending on the nationalities of the participants and/or the audience? The answers are not straightforward, nor should they be. ...
• By Western standards Al Jazeera may have breached standards of taste and decency, and may not (again by Western standards) have sufficiently contextualised bin Laden and Iraqi exercises in propaganda. ... There's some merit to both points of view, the demise of Arnett being a good example of self-censorship, but there's no good reason for casting Al Jazeera into outer darkness - unless of course the problem is that its coverage has been increasingly reaching a Western audience.

• On many nights, the regulars at Anaheim's Al Basha Cafe, a popular hangout for Arab expatriates, wouldn't dream of changing the channel on the big-screen television.
• They're all glued to Al Jazeera, a 24-hour satellite channel beamed out of the Qatari desert that offers what no other news outlet can: uncensored information and commentary from an Arab perspective.
• Watched by tens of millions across the globe, Al Jazeera's coverage of the Palestinians' revolt against Israeli occupation is now helping to unite the Arab world.
• For Arab viewers, Al Jazeera is to the intifada against Israel what CNN was to the Persian Gulf War. ...
• "We're seeing a sea change in the Arab media thanks to Al Jazeera," said Jon B. ... "Al Jazeera is. ...
• "We're playing a strange kind of music," said Mohammed Jasem al Ali, managing director of Al Jazeera, which means "the Peninsula" in Arabic.
• Many Arab governments find Al Jazeera's tune jarring. ...
• Jordan, Kuwait and Yasser Arafat's Palestinian Authority have on occasion shut down Al Jazeera news bureaus in protest. ...
• Neighboring Bahrain and Saudi Arabia won't permit Al Jazeera reporters on their soil. ...
• Algeria even cut off power to several major cities after authorities learned that Al Jazeera was planning to broadcast a show about the government's repressive actions during the country's bloody civil war.
• Yet Al Jazeera is spawning imitators across the Middle East. ... Even the Voice of America, on a mission to expand its presence in the Arab world, recently pleaded with Al Jazeera to broadcast its programs. ...
• Azmi Bishara, an Arab member of the Israeli parliament, says Al Jazeera has restored some credibility to the Arab media.
• The estimated 30 million Arabs who tune in to Al Jazeera have one man to thank: Sheik Hamad ibn Khalifa al Thani, the 51-year-old emir of Qatar, an oil-rich nation slightly larger than Los Angeles County. ...
• In 1996, Hamad approved $150 million--to be spent over five years--to launch Al Jazeera.

• President Bashar al-Assad received at his residence in Tunis on Sunday morning Mr. ...
• Arab Summit continued its meetings Saturday evening with a closed- door session in the presence of President Bashar al-Assad, kings, Presidents and princes of Arab countries and heads of delegations.
• People Assembly Speaker Mahmoud al-Abrash Tuesday conferred with the Ukrainian Parliamentary delegation, headed by the President of the Syrian-Ukrainian Parliamentary Friendship Association Anatoly Domanski on the latest developments in the region and world and the bilateral relations between the two countries.
• Deliberations of the 16th session of the Arab Summit started in Tunis on Saturday with the presence of President Bashar al-Assad , Presidents, kings, princes, Premiers and Ministers of a number of the Arab countries as well as Secretary General of the Arab League Amre Mousa.
• President Bashar al-Assad on Saturday received at his residence member of the United Arab Emirates’ Federal Supreme Council, Ruler of Fujairah Emirate, and Chairman of the UAE delegation to the Arab Summit, Sheikh Hamad Bin Mohammad Al Sharqi.

• AFP Algerian anchor Khadija Ben Guenna on the Doha-based Al-Jazeera network.
• Ask the folks running Al-Jazeera, arguably the most influential television station in the Middle East. ...
• This hazy request (or was it a warning?) came during a meeting earlier this week between Secretary of State Colin Powell and the Emir of Qatar, who is also Al-Jazeera's founder and primary benefactor. ...
• Since its inception five years ago, Al Jazeera has been the toast of most Western media. ... By the late 1990s, CNN was so impressed by the news channel's coverage and influence that the Atlanta-based network added Al-Jazeera to their list of 200 international affiliates, a relationship that allows each network to use the other's video feed and pictures. ...
• Rather than feed its audience the officially-sanctioned, cookie-cutter version of events typical of the region's state-owned networks, Al Jazeera gives equal time to dissident, even revolutionary views of Islam, human rights and the governments of the region. ...
• Founded in 1996 by Qatar's Emir Hamad bin Khalifa, the fledgling news channel quickly became famous among locals, and infamous among the regimes of the Gulf States, many of which went to great lengths (including turning off electricity to an entire country) to prevent their subjects being exposed to Al-Jazeera's "sensationalist" programming. ...
• While its liberal coverage has raised hackles among members of the Taliban and other fundamentalist groups, Al-Jazeera strives to maintain working relationships with organizations across the region's ideological spectrum. ...
• Al-Jazeera's broad mix of views doesn't much bother Washington, except when U. ... "Whenever we hear from our friends (on the topic of Al-Jazeera), we consider this as a friendly advice and we listen to the friends and their advice," he told reporters in Washington on Wednesday. ...
• By: Al Franken.

• Al Jazeera's coverage uniquely uncensored .
• The Middle East's independent television network, Al Jazeera, is finding an audience in the Bay Area as well. ...
• It's not a view shared by Al Jazeera's local audience. ...
• "I watch Al Jazeera and CNN -- but I get more coverage from Al Jazeera. ...
• 99 a month to get Al Jazeera from the DISH Network, the Colorado company that distributes Al Jazeera in the United States. ...
• Osama bin Laden, Saddam Hussein -- and now National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and British Prime Minister Tony Blair -- have all given interviews to Al Jazeera. ...
• For people like Ateyeh and high-tech professional Rasmi Shaker of San Jose, Al Jazeera has done a better job covering the war than the U. ...
• The Taliban gave Al Jazeera permission to stay in Afghanistan during allied bombings; correspondents from CNN and other Western media organizations were expelled. ...
• CNN has used images from Al Jazeera -- as it did when it showed part of Osama bin Laden's videotaped speech after the United States began bombing Afghanistan on Oct. ...
• officials, however, have taken a dim view of some of Al Jazeera's coverage. ...
• The DISH Network even says it reserves the right to black out Al Jazeera's programming. ...
• Arab Americans who watch Al Jazeera say attacks on the network's credibility come at a time when information from Taliban-controlled Afghanistan is scarce -- information that could affect public opinion about the war. ...
• "Rumsfeld is saying the Taliban's (claim of civilian deaths) is 'ridiculous, ' but I see with my own eyes (on Al Jazeera) a poor man crying in his village. ...
• Some weekends, Shaker watches Al Jazeera for eight straight hours. San Francisco software engineer Tarek Elaydi usually invites his friends over or accepts an invitation from them to see the news and other programs on Al Jazeera. ...
• When he visited friends in the West Bank several months ago, Elaydi tuned into Al Jazeera nearly every day. ...

• Ayman Al-Zawahiri: attention turns to the other prime suspect .
• The Saudi renegade’s reputed deputy, Ayman Mohammed Rabie al-Zawahiri, a lifelong Egyptian radical who many believe is the real brains behind the loose-knit network of Islamic militants, is also a prime suspect. It may be that the USA would find it prudent to go after al-Zawahiri first if it wants to eliminate the enemy it has identified. ...
• Al-Zawahiri, now 50, was indicted along with Bin Laden by a federal grand jury in New York in 1999 for the US embassy bombings in Nairobi and Dar-es Salaam in August 1998 and has been named as a prime suspect in the 11 September suicide attacks on the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington. ...
• Al-Zawahiri was sentenced to death in absentia by an Egyptian military court that year for his activities with al-Jihad, one of the deadliest of Egypt’s Islamic organisations. ...
• While Bin Laden has the charisma and the funds that built the Al-Qaeda (The Base) network of Islamic fundamentalists, mainly from the men who followed him during the fighting against the Soviets in Afghanistan in the 1980s, al-Zawahiri is widely seen by counterterrorism and Islamic specialists as the intellect and ideological driving force behind the organisation. ...
• According to Arab analysts, al-Zawahiri was instrumental in forging the coalition of al-Jihad (or the wing of it he now controls after its fragmentation by Egyptian security authorities several years ago), Bin Laden’s forces, two Pakistani groups and another from Bangladesh in February 1998 with the purpose of waging war on the USA. The hundreds of al-Jihad members — estimates range as high as 1,000, about one-third of Bin Laden’s force in Afghanistan — with al-Zawahiri in Afghanistan formed a hard core of seasoned militants around which the coalition, the International Front for Fighting Jews and Crusaders, has been built. ...
• Mohammed Atta, the 33-year-old Hamburg-educated architect who the USA believes was at the controls of the hijacked American Airlines Flight 11 when it was the first to punch into the World Trade Center on 11 September, was one of at least two of the 19 hijackers who struck on that day believed to have been members of al-Jihad. ...
• Sobhi al-Sitta, an Egyptian Islamist also known as Abu Hafas al-Masri, is the commander of the front’s military arm — known as the Islamic Army for the Liberation of the Holy Sites, which claimed responsibility for the 1998 embassy bombings in East Africa. He succeeded another Egyptian, Ali al-Rashidi, who drowned in Lake Victoria, Uganda, in 1995 two years after he had been dispatched to Africa to recruit for Bin Laden. ... One of al-Sitta’s daughters married Bin Laden’s son Mohammed in January 2001. A videotape of the celebrations in Kandahar, broadcast by Qatar’s Al-Jazeera satellite television station, showed Bin Laden sitting with al-Sitta and al-Zawahiri. "Al-Zawahiri’s experience is much wider than even Bin Laden’s," according to Dia’a Rashwan, a leading expert on Islamic militants in Egypt. ...
• Al-Zawahiri has been a central figure in the conflict waged by Islamic zealots in Egypt since the 1970s, fighting alongside the main Islamic group, al-Gamaa al-Islamiya, with the aim of establishing an Islamic state. ...
• Indeed, al-Zawahiri has been active since 1966, when as a boy of 15, he was arrested for membership of al-Ilkwan al-Muslimun, the Muslim Brotherhood. The Islamic movement, committed to purging Egyptian society of foreign influences, particularly the British, was founded in 1928 by Egyptian schoolteacher Hassan al-Banna. ...

• Qatar's Al Jazeera brings a provocative new brand of journalism to the Middle East.
• It is Al Jazeera, a satellite television station that, in almost three years of existence, has managed to grab virtually everyone’s attention and put the tiny Gulf state of Qatar, its home base, on the international media map.
• Media experts feel that, until Al Jazeera broke the silence, there was an absence of serious discussion on Arab satellite stations because political and financial pressures exerted by most Middle Eastern regimes dictate a steady diet of mind-numbing entertainment or bland and harmless news and talk shows.
• Al Jazeera was established at a cost of US$150 million, and it had major assistance from the Qatari government, which provided the buildings, administrative facilities and technical assistance.
• As far as anyone knows, Al Jazeera is owned indirectly by the Qatari government. ...
• Given its proclivity for tweaking official Arab noses, it’s doubtful that Al Jazeera is turning a profit. ...
• According to Al Jazeera’s CEO, Mohammed Jassem Al Ali, satellite channels face two choices: either satisfy governments or satisfy viewers. “It’s time to have channels that satisfy viewers and their mentality and to respect them, which is what Al Jazeera is doing,” he told the London-based daily Al Hayat.
• The station’s dedicated viewers and the colorful and engaging responses from callers to eyebrow-raising talk shows, such as “Al Ittijah Al Mu’akiss” (The Opposite Direction), seem to refute the argument that the Arab television-viewing public wants only variety shows, soap operas, Egyptian movie reruns and foreign programs.
• Al Jazeera “has pushed other Arab satellite networks that existed before it to compete with talk shows that attract people in countries where state-owned television is not very reliable or free,” says Elias Austa, a Middle East correspondent for an international news agency.
• Despite their limitations, other satellite stations such as the London-based, Saudi-owned Middle East Broadcasting Center and the United Arab Emirates’ Dubai channel have been trying to catch up with Al Jazeera by imitating its public-affairs and talk-show programs, Austa says.
• “The main challenge Al Jazeera has provided was to give a chance to many people in Arab countries who did not have access to worldwide coverage to talk and be heard, whether they were right or wrong,” Austa explains, adding that the station’s professional coverage of events, even in Israel, has displeased conservative Arab regimes in the Persian Gulf region.
• Eickelman of Dartmouth College say that Al Jazeera’s application for membership in the Arab States Broadcasting Union was rejected in December 1998. The ASBU gave Al Jazeera six months to conform with the union’s code of honor, which promotes Arab brotherhood. Al Jazeera did not conform, and news of the shakedown hit the wire services and the Internet like wildfire and added to the station’s fame.
• Emad Eddin Adib, the host of a popular talk show on the Arab-owned Orbit satellite station, a conduit for many Arab countries’ channels that compete with Al Jazeera, says technology can and does circumvent stifling press restrictions in the Middle East. ...

• Al-Jazeera accuses US of bombing its Kabul office .
• The Qatar-based satellite television channel, al-Jazeera, claimed yesterday that its Kabul office had been targeted by United States bombers. ...
• The Pentagon yesterday denied that it had deliberately targeted al-Jazeera, but said it could not explain why the office was hit. ...
• Speaking by telephone to the News World conference of media executives in Barcelona, Mr Hilal said he believed that al-Jazeera's office in Kabul had been on the Pentagon's list of targets since the beginning of the conflict but the US did not want to bomb it while the broadcaster was the only one based in Kabul. ...
• 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. ...
• The US would have known, therefore, that al-Jazeera had ordered its Kabul correspondent to leave, but would not have realised that he was still in the city. ...
• Speaking to the conference from the US military's Florida command centre for the Afghan bombings, Colonel Brian Hoey denied that al-Jazeera was a target. ...
• He said the Pentagon did not have the location coordinates 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. ...

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• But that didn't stop Arab satellite news channel Al Jazeera. After apologizing for the "horrific" nature of what was about to be broadcast, an Al Jazeera anchor explained: "In the interest of objectivity, we felt we had to share them with you. " The grisly footage, which the channel said followed "bloody battles" near Al Nasariya, Iraq, quickly drew the ire of U. ... 2 at Central Command who is of Lebanese descent, was so upset that he chastised an Al Jazeera reporter at a press briefing the day the footage aired, saying: "I'm very disappointed that you would portray those pictures of our servicemen. ...   So it goes for Al Jazeera, the Arabic-language channel founded in 1996 by the Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani. ... , Al Jazeera has become impossible to ignore. ... military offers harsh criticism of Al Jazeera from time to time, officials consider it so important that they monitor it in the secretive nerve center at Central Command headquarters in Doha, Qatar. ... This war will be Al Jazeera's crucial test. ... military, Al Jazeera has more reporters in Iraq than just about any other TV operation. "The educated people in the Arab world usually switch between CNN and Al Jazeera, but with this war, people say Al Jazeera is more true than CNN because it shows us the two sides," says Talaat Mousa, a freelance TV presenter in Doha with no affiliation to Al Jazeera, which has 35 million viewers in the Arab world. ... "  So far, the Arab world seems pleased with Al Jazeera's coverage.

• 4/11/04 We have added the American Task Force on Palestine, If Americans Knew (information on Israeli-Palestinian conflict), Al-Awda, the Palestine Right of return coalition), Center for Civil Society (an Indian freedom think tank), Unity Productions (producers of "Muhammad: Legacy of a Prophet" and other videos aimed at interfaith understanding) and Omid Safi's progresssive Islam site to our launchpad.
• 9/9/02 The speeches of Sami Al-Arian and Merve Kavakci on the Threat of Secular Fundamentalism  from our Fifth Annual Dinner are now available on-line, including the Q&A period.
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• Imad-ad-Dean Ahmad explained why all the talk about what the Pope didn't say to Syria's president Bashar al-Assad obscures what he DID say: that Israel must abide by International law including U. ...
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• “To declare Osama bin Laden and his Al-Qaeda organization's involvement in the terrorist attack without proper in-depth investigation is simply unjust,” Beg argued. ... ¶ As the United States sought to crack down on unstable regions that might provide a safe haven to Al-Qaeda, considerable attention focused on southeast Asia. ... Suspected militants with ties to Al-Qaeda continue to be arrested. ...
• Linking Saudi Arabia with Terrorism: The Anti-Saudi Media Campaign | Uthman al-Rawwaf, Al-Sharq al-Awsat (Saudi-owned), London, England, Oct. ...
• ¶ Editorial | Samir Ragab, Al-Gomhouriya (pro-government), Cairo, Egypt, Sept. ... " ¶ Editorial | Galal Duweidar, Al-Akhbar (pro-government), Cairo, Egypt, Sept. ... " ¶ What Comes After the Attack on the United States? | Ibrahim Nafie, Al-Ahram, (pro-government), Cairo, Egypt, Sept. ... ¶ American Nightmare | Salama Ahmed Salama, Al-Ahram (government-owned), Cairo, Egypt, Sept. ... " ¶ Editorial | Al-Ahram (government-owned), Cairo, Egypt, Oct. ... " ¶ Which Islam do we need? | Al-Sharq al-Awsat (Saudi-owned), London, England, Oct. ... " ¶ Editorial | Al-Wafd (opposition), Cairo, Egypt, Oct. ... ¶ Mohamed Wahib al-Sayed, Columnist, Al-Ahram al-Messa'i (governement-owned), Feb. ... ¶ Editorial | Al-Ahram Weekly (government-owned), Cairo, Egypt, Feb. ...
• Officials in Morocco and the United States are investigating possible links to Al-Qaeda. ...
• Our Lost Innocence | Ahmad al-Ruba’i, Al-Sharq al-Awsat (Saudi-owned), London, England, Sept. ...
• The Arab System Transforms the Palestinian Issue from a Question of Liberation into an Issue of Terrorism | Amin al-Mahdy, Al-Hayat (pan-Arab), London, England, Sept. ...

• Most of the photos were taken by Al Jazerra or Pakistani journalists and are reproduced from the World Wide Web here as a form of war protest.

• Osama bin Ladin and al-Qaida.
• Suspected al-Qaida militants raid Saudi oil industry complex .
• Al Qaida claims Madrid bombings .
• Senior al-Qaida activist captured in Yemen .
• Saudi forces arrest al-Qaida suspects after shootout .
• Radical Islamic organizations announce merger with al-Qaida .
• Saudi authorities arrest key al-Qaida suspect .
• Saudi security forces raid suspected al-Qaeda cell .
• Arrest may show link between al-Qaida attacks in Kenya .
• Spain arrests suspected al-Qaida financial network .
• Al-Qaida Operations Chief Arrested in Pakistan .
• Al Qaida Supporters Threaten Nuclear Attacks .
• Al-Qaida-linked Group Claims Attack in Yemen, threatens to Target German Interests .
• Statement on al-Qaida Website Claims Kenya Attacks .
• Al-Qaida Operatives Killed in U. ...
• Terror Cell in New York Linked to Al-Qaida .

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