Reuters
AlertNet, UK -
DOHA, Qatar, March 30 (Reuters)
- Blasted by Washington and London for beaming
distressing
pictures from Iraq, al-Jazeera television said on Sunday it would ...
Al-Jazeera won't censor war horrors -
Al Jazeera cameraman released after US interrogation - ABC
Online
Spam
keeps Al-Jazeera's site down - IAfrica
South African News
Why Al Jazeera Matters
New York
Times -
Today, word of such an attack
would be out within minutes because of a
television station called Al Jazeera.
Financed by the iconoclastic ...
Through
the prism of CNN , Al Jazeera . - Hi
Pakistan
Looking
inside out: Al Jazeera's view - Minneapolis
Star Tribune
Al-Jazeera:
News channel in the news - BBC
Hackers
Place American Flag on Al Jazeera Website
ChronWatch.com -
US ingenuity and tech-savvy
got the upper hand of Al-Jazeera yesterday,
if only for a few hours. Someone of our persuasion
successfully ...
Hacker
Defaces Al-Jazeera Web Site - eWeek
Between
lines - The
Globe and Mail
Al-Jazeera hacker attack puts question mark on media
during war
ABC Online, Australia - Mar
28, 2003
The Arab television network Al-Jazeera says freedom of speech
is being
threatened following attacks on its website.
Hackers replaced ...
Al-Jazeera defends images, won't censor war horror - ABS
CBN News
Al-Jazeera Defends Images,Won't Censor War Horror - Reuters
Al-Jazeera website crashes - Radio
Australia
Gloucestershire
Echo
Al-Jazeera:
view from the inside
The Age, Australia - Mar
29, 2003
By Steve Dow. Al-Jazeera's reporter in Australia, Sydney-based journalist
Salef Saqqaf, 45, says that is the way the
viewers like it. ...
The
Other Air Battle - Newsweek
The
other air war over Iraq - New
Zealand Herald
US:
Arab media not fair - United
Press International
Hack
Attack Hits Al-Jazeera Site for Showing U.S.
Dead
Bob Mims, The Salt Lake Tribune, March 28, 2003
'DNS
Poisoning' method of attack
The Iraqi war raged into cyberspace
Thursday, and a Salt Lake City-based Internet
service provider became the battleground as
hackers pro- and anti-American launched digital
salvos.
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.aljazeera.net) has been
intermittently taken down by hackers.
Spam
keeps Al-Jazeera website down
27/03/2003 18:28 - (SA)
Launch of English website delayed
until mid-April
Doha - Waves of spam kept Al-Jazeera's
website down for a third day on Thursday and
officials at the satellite channel said it was
coming from US e- mailers apparently angry over
its coverage of the Iraqi war.
The Qatar-based network, which
has broadcast graphic footage of dead US and
British soldiers, also said it would now have
to delay the introduction of an English-language
site for several weeks due to the barrage of
spam, or junk electronic mail.
"English.aljazeera.net will
not be launched until mid-April," online
editor-in-chief Abdel Aziz Al-Mahmud told AFP.
Al
Jazeera says it has duty to show world casualties
from both sides
SARAH EL DEEB, Associated Press Writer,Thursday,
March 27, 2003
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP)
-- Responding to criticism for airing footage
of dead U.S. and British soldiers, the Arab
satellite television network Al-Jazeera said
Thursday it had a duty to show the world casualties
on all sides in the Iraq war.
"War has victims from both
sides," said Al-Jazeera's editor in chief,
Ibrahim Hilal. "If you don't show both
sides, you are not covering" the war.
Al-Jazeera
critics accused of double standards
Jason Deans, The Guardian, Thursday March 27,
2003
Critics of Arabic news channel
al-Jazeera's decision to broadcast footage of
dead British and US soldiers were today accused
of double standards by a former BBC senior journalist
in the Gulf region.
Al-Jazeera
suffers DoS attack
Thursday 27th March 2003, Patrick Gray, ZDNet
Australia and Ian Fried, CNET News.com
Within hours of an English version
of Al-Jazeera's Web site coming online, it was
blown away by a denial of service attack
The Web sites of Al-Jazeera have
been taken offline, in what has been confirmed
by the Qatar- based media organisation as a
distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack
against the company's Domain Name Servers (DNS).
U.S.
Attempts to Censor Al-Jazeera
Stopping
Signals From Satellite TV Proves Difficult
Seth Schiesel/The New York Times/October
15, 2001
Unless Al-Jazeera itself
decides to stop broadcasting Al
Qaeda statements, there may be little
the White House can do, in technical
terms at least, to prevent Al Qaeda
from spreading its message by television.
Censorship
of News in Wartime is Still Censorship
Veronica Forwood/Reporters
Sans Frontieres/October 15, 2001
A certain hacking at the
foundations of the first amendment -
which guarantees freedom of expression
and opinion - was embarked on by the
U.S. administration while the dust was
still settling on the ruins of the World
Trade Centre.
A
Bold and Original TV Station that America
Wants to Censor
Robert Fisk/The
Independent/October 11, 2001
It is a phenomenon in the
Arab world, a comparatively free, bold
initiative in journalism that was supported
by the Americans - until it became rather
too free.
Air
War
Michael Young/Reason/October
8, 2001
The Bush administration's
efforts to censor a leading Arab TV
station are dumb. It should use the
station as a means of getting its point
across to an Arab public highly skeptical
of whatever the U.S. does in the Middle
East.
U.S.
Attempts to Influence Reporting by Al-Jazeera
International
Press Institute/October 8, 2001
IPI is concerned that the
U.S. State Department may be attempting
to develop a two-tiered approach to
the reporting of events. An approach
which enables balanced news stories
to be reported in Western countries
while trying to prevent similar news
stories being aired in the Middle East.
CPJ
Dismayed by U.S. Pressure Against Arab
Satellite News Channel
Committee to
Protect Journalists/October 4, 2001
"The administration
is urging Qatari authorities to interfere
with what is essentially an independent
news station," said CPJ executive
director Ann Cooper. "Arab government
attempts to influence Al-Jazeera have
garnered widespread attention over the
years. We are disheartened to see U.S.
officials adopting similar tactics."
Reach
Out and Censor Someone?
Jessica Reaves/Time/October
5, 2001
Since its inception five
years ago, Al-Jazeera has been the toast
of most Western media. But as of this
week, the outspoken network has officially
been "encouraged" to "balance"
its coverage of the region's news, i.e.
"tone down" any anti-American
sentiment.
U.S.
Urges Curb on Arab TV Channel
BBC/October
4, 2001
Al-Jazeera's confrontation
of controversial issues and string of
scoops, which have included footage
of the infamous Taleban destruction
of ancient Buddha statues, has earned
it praise both within the Arab world
and beyond.
The
Al-Jazeera Revolution: Before 9/11
Al-Jazeera:
Here We Stand; We Can Do No Otherwise
Yosri Fouda/TBS
(Cairo)/Spring & Summer, 2001
A whole new set of programs
which look like typical "inventions"
of Al-Jazeera has been introduced to
most, if not all, Arab satellite channels.
Fouda is Al-Jazeera's London Bureau
Chief.
The
Fast Eat the Slow
Thomas L. Friedman/The
New York Times/February 2, 2001
Al-Jazeera has stolen Arab
TV audiences from every one of the big
powers in the region with its freewheeling
debates, uncensored news and, lately,
online polling, which is a total no-no
in the Arab world.
Al-Jazeera:
The Power of Free Speech
Gary C. Gambill/Middle
East Intelligence Bulletin/June 1, 2000
Every Arab regime has found
something in Al-Jazeera's programs to
complain about. Qatari diplomats have
received more than 400 official complaints
from other Arab states about Al-Jazeera
since its establishment in 1996.
Satellite
Television Floods Middle East with Information
William B.
Reinckens/U.S. State Department/August
27, 2001
70 percent of the people
living in the Gulf receive their news
from satellite television and 60 percent
of the Palestinians living in Gaza and
the West Bank have access to a satellite
dish or frequent an Internet Café.
How
Tiny Qatar Jars Arab Media
Davan Maharaj/Los
Angeles Times/May 7, 2001
Arab kings in their gilded
palaces tune in every night. Goatherding
Bedouins living in ramshackle huts in
Israel's Negev desert don't miss a broadcast.
On many nights, the regulars at Anaheim's
Al Basha Cafe, a popular expatriate,
wouldn't dream of changing the channel
on the big-screen television.
Democracy
by Decree
Mary Anne Weaver/The
New Yorker/November 20, 2000
Qatar's most effective
revolutionary enterprise is Al-Jazeera,
a satellite news channel, which explores
issues that have long been considered
forbidden topics in the Arab world.
In Saudi Arabia and Algeria living rooms
have sometimes gone dark when an Al-Jazeera
program deemed offensive by those governments
has been aired.
Interview:
Al-Jazeera's Managing Director, Mohammed
Jasim Al-Ali
S. Abdallah
Schleifer/TBS (Cairo)/Fall 2000
I came to recognize something
about the TV business in the Arab world:
we concentrate mostly upon entertainment,
quiz shows, drama, movies. But I think
there is an important field that has
been missing, talk shows and news.
Is
Satellite TV Transforming Arab Public
Discourse?
Georgetown
University's Center for Contemporary
Arab Studies/April 25, 2000
How is the popularity and
availability of satellite television
changing the way the Arabs see themselves
and the rest of the world? Will increased
freedom of information herald a new
democracy, or is satellite television
just a subtle form of "bread and
circuses"?
The
Al-Jazeera Revolution
Ehud Ya'ari/The
Jerusalem Report/March 27, 2000
Qatar has discovered a
new commodity more precious than its
gas and oil - apower-generating satellite
TV.
Changing
the Face of Television News in the Middle
East
Abigail Beshkin
and Suzanne Trimel/Columbia University
News/February 25, 2000
In the Western world, people
digested print well before they digested
TV and cable. In the Middle East, it's
all happening at the same time. From
a Columbia University forum: "Opening
the Channels: Television and Society
in the Middle East."
Maverik
Arab Satellite TV
Magda Abu-Fadil/International
Press Institute/Fall, 1999
Given its proclivity for
tweaking official Arab noses, it's doubtful
that Al-Jazeera is turning a profit.
While the channel¹s owners would like
to make money, they certainly realize
advertising revenues will remain scarce
as long as their mission is to swim
against the tide.
Kicking
Up a Sandstorm
Scott MacLeod/Time/March
15, 1999
The Doha-based channel
has become the most freewheeling, station
in the Arab world, delighting millions
of viewers numbed by decades of censored
news on state-controlled television.
Challenging,
Controversial Television... From Qatar?
Paul Schemm/Middle
East Times/February 4, 1999
The beauty of having a
station coming out of such a small country
is that the matters that are off-limits
are so small, it leaves plenty of room
to make a station that everyone watches
and all governments hate.
Al-Jazeera
May Quit Afghanistan
Jason Deans/The Guardian/November 14,
2001
Al-Jazeera may soon be
forced to pull all of its staff out
of the country. The broadcaster, which
is seen as pro-Taliban by the Northern
Alliance forces now advancing south
of Kabul, has advised its staff to leave
the country.
X
Marks the Press
Laura Flanders/WorkingForChange/November
14, 2001
When the U.S. berates and
then bombs the media it may be a war
crime. There can be no doubt that the
offices of cable network al-Jazeera
were a civilian target. Bombing civilian
targets is barred under just about every
international convention you care to
mention.
U.S.
Bombs Hit Kabul TV Station
Vernon Loeb/Washington Post/November
14, 2001
Col. Brian Hoey, a spokesman
for the U.S. Central Command said that
U.S. aircraft dropped two 500-pound
bombs on the building in question, based
on "compelling" evidence that
the facility was being used by the al
Qaeda terrorist organization. At the
time of the attack, he said, "the
indications we had was that this was
not an al-Jazeera office."
Al-Jazeera
Kabul Offices Hit in U.S. Raid
BBC/November 13, 2001
Managing director Mohammed
Jasim al-Ali would not speculate as
to whether the offices were deliberately
targeted, but said the location of the
bureau was widely known by everyone,
including the Americans. "This
office has been known by everybody,
the American airplanes know the location
of the office, they know we are broadcasting
from there," he said.
Move
Over CNN
Al-Jazeera Takes Center Stage
Spotlight
Turns to Reporter for Arabic-Language
Network
Shelley Emling/Cox Newspapers/October
25, 2001
She looks like any other
TV reporter. But the conspicuous Arabic
logo on her microphone marks her as
something more. Ghida Fakhry covers
New York and the United Nations for
Al- Jazeera, the Arabic-language network
that has grown so popular that it is
considering recording broadcasts in
English and expanding its office here.
The
Only Show in Town
Christopher Dickey/Newsweek/October
22, 2001
The breakthrough came during
the late-1998 air war on Iraq, called
"Desert Fox." The bombing
was supposed to force Saddam Hussein
to allow UN weapons inspectors back
into his country, but it failed. Arab
viewers watched in fascination as the
Iraqi dictator once again defied Washington.
Al-Jazeera
Ascends to World Stage
Daniel Williams/Washington Post/October
13, 2001
"Our main goal was
to serve the Arab viewer," said
Sheik Hamad bin Thamer Thani, chairman
of the network's board. "We never
expected to achieve global celebrity."
Al-Jazeera reaches 35 million
viewers with its news broadcasts, as
intelligence and propaganda become crucial
weapons in a new kind of conflict.
Prime
Time for the "Arab CNN"
Jessica Reaves/Time/October 10, 2001
Because it is the only
source of the money shot of modern warfare,
video of U.S. attacks from the ground
of the city being hit, Al-Jazeera has
been very much in demand.
Battle
Station
Brian Whitaker/The Guardian/October
9, 2001
A decade ago we watched
Baghdad burn on CNN. This time millions
were glued to footage from an Arab satellite
channel broadcasting from a nation few
of us could find on the map. How Al-Jazeera
cornered the conflict.
Qatar
TV Station a Clear Channel to Middle
East
Michael Dobbs/Washington Post/October
9, 2001
A record of breaking exclusive
news stories that many American networks
might envy. According to a joke going
around the Middle East, Al-Jazeera is
"a country with Qatar as its capital."
CNN
of the Arab World
Rita Ciolli/Chicago Tribune/October
9, 2001
The Arabic-language channel
was the first to offer uncensored news
and talk shows that discussed the taboo
topics of religion, sex and politics
in a region where government control
of the media is routine.
Al-Jazeera
Goes it Alone
Suzanne Lidster and Mike Rose/BBC/October
8, 2001
In a country where watching
TV or surfing the internet is banned,
the Taliban has used Al-Jazeera as one
way of communicating with the world.
News
or Propaganda?
Al-Jazeera Courts Controversy
Between
Two Worlds: Al-Jazeera Faces Conflicting
Expectations
Joel Campagna/Committee to Protect Journalists/October
2001
Journalists and commentators
are now asking whether the station is
a balanced news source or a biased outlet
for inciting the Arab world against
the United States; whether it is an
independent news gatherer or a tool
in the hands of bin Laden and his propaganda
machine.
The
CNN of the Arab World
Tamara Straus/AlterNet/October 26, 2001
Does Al-Jazeera provide unfiltered news? Is it broadcasting
more accurate and in-depth war coverage
of the war in Afghanistan than American
networks? Is it revolutionizing Middle
East media? And what are its biases?
In this interview, veteran Jordanian
journalist Lamis Andoni discusses the
controversy surrounding Al-Jazeera.
The
CNN of the Arab World Deserves Our Respect
Hussein Ibish and Ali Abunimah/Los Angeles
Times/October 22, 2001
Al Jazeera is simply telling
the truth about what is happening in
Afghanistan, while CNN and company have
switched from "all-Condit, all
the time" to "all-anthrax,
all the time," making do with videophone
reports from journalists in the Northern
Alliance's desolate no-man's land, describing
the night sky and reading the latest
Pentagon press release.
Read Ali Abunimah's ongoing
commentary on Al-Jazeera's war coverage, and his 10/11 and 10/14 letters to NPR about its reporting on Al-Jazeera.
In
Defense of Al-Jazeera
Michael Moran/MSNBC/October 18, 2001
Al-Jazeera worked hard
covering the Afghan story when the very
notion of doing so would have been dismissed
at an American news meeting. It is important
to remember that the list of American
journalists who have set foot in Afghanistan
over the past five years is short, indeed.
Arab
TV Network Plays Key, Disputed Role
in Afghan War
Warren Richey/Christian Science Monitor/October
15, 2001
The situation is similar
to the exclusive status granted to CNN
in Baghdad during the Gulf War. At that
time, CNN came under fire for allegedly
being used by Saddam Hussein for propaganda
purposes in some of its reports from
Iraq. Now, similar allegations are being
leveled at Al-Jazeera.
Pressure
Mounts on TV Station Over bin Laden
Martin Bentham/London Daily Telegraph/October
14, 2001
The Arab station that broadcast
bin Laden's riposte to the West after
the first air strikes on Afghanistan
struck a secret deal to screen his propaganda
15 days before the raids. Ibrahim Helal,
the station's chief editor, said that
the station had actively solicited a
taped message from bin Laden.
Al-Jazeera
in the Balance
Christopher Caldwell/The Weekly Standard/October
11, 2001
Stylistically, Al-Jazeera
is the most western thing in the Middle
East outside of fast food. Is the world's
most popular Arab TV network a public-access
channel for terrorists or a small sign
of Westernization?
One
Window Through Which We Can Breathe
Ahdaf Soueif/The Guardian/October 9,
2001
In the current crisis,
Al-Jazeera's reporting has been straight
and sober; a welcome relief from the
flag-waving and rhetoric, for example,
of CNN. When the bombing of Afghanistan
started, the gale that was blowing over
London blew away my satellite reception.
I was so bereft I found myself gazing
at the black screen, trying to stare
through it to what Al-Jazeera might
be transmitting.
The
West Struggles in the Other Air War
Muslim
Hearts and Minds: Our Al-Jazeera Problem
Scott McConnell/Antiwar.com/November
6, 2001
This weekend I received
a letter from an old friend, a retired
American ambassador with long service
in Europe and the Arab world. Conversations
with Arab friends had convinced him
that Al-Jazeera has changed
Arab life as much as the September 11
attacks has changed America's.
U.S.
Tries to Rally Public Support Overseas
Michael R. Gordon/The New York Times/November
6, 2001
"We have been hearing
from Arab leaders and others who support
us who say you guys need to do more,
" a senior administration official
said, referring to the information campaign.
"They say, 'Al-Jazeera is killing
us."'
Transcript:
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,
General Richard Myers, October 31, 2001
The
War for Muslim Hearts and Minds
Tony Karon/Time/November 6, 2001
The U.S. takes to the Arab
airwaves to make its case against bin
Laden - in Arabic - but it still needs
local voices to join in.
U.S.
Appears to Be Losing Public Relations
War So Far
Susan Sachs/The New York Times/October
28, 2001
Secretary of State Colin
L. Powell, Defense Secretary Donald
H. Rumsfeld and the national security
adviser, Condoleezza Rice, have all
been interviewed on Al-Jazeera.
But in terms of content and impact,
the interviews have often fallen flat.
Aljazeera.net
Offers Arab News To Wider Audience Through
Net
Melinda Patterson Grenier/Wall Street
Journal Online/October 23, 2001
The online version of Arab
satellite news channel Al-Jazeera has
seen traffic soar since the September
11 terrorist attacks. The largest number
of visitors to aljazeera.net, which
now serves 3 million page views per
day, comes from the U.S., even though
the site is in Arabic.
A
Different Script
Roula Khalaf and Gerard Baker/Financial
Times/October 12, 2001
In its war against Osama
bin Laden and the Taliban, the U.S.
can rely on intelligence from satellites
orbiting the earth. But there is one
satellite America cannot control - the
one that beams the Al-Jazeera news channel
across the Middle East from its studios
in Qatar.
Mideast
News Network Has Fans Here: Coverage
Uniquely Uncensored
Jonathan Curiel/San Francisco Chronicle/October
18, 2001
For some, Al Jazeera has
done a better job covering the war than
the U.S. media. "You see in your
own eyes the legs and the heads of the
civilians (injured and killed) as a
result of the coalition," Rasmi
Shaker said. "CNN is not showing
the human voice of the war. It makes
me sick."
How
to Win Islam's Hearts and Minds
Sam Jaffe/Business Week/October 17,
2001
The President himself should
take the stage through Al-Jazeera.
He ought to deliver weekly talks to
Moslem viewers, explaining America's
goals. Why not have him take calls from
viewers. It could be a key part of winning
this war.
U.S.
Message Lost Overseas
Robert G. Kaiser/Washington Post/October
15, 2001
Interviews with Al-Jazeera
are one sign of the administration's
intensifying interest in "public
diplomacy" -- selling its policies
to the public, especially in the Arab
Middle East, where U.S. positions have
been unpopular for years.
A
Network for Arabs Presents News Coverage
With Attitude
Blaine Harden/The New York Times/October
15, 2001
The popularity of Al-Jazeera
has increased tremendously among the
one million people of Arab descent who
live in the United States, most in the
suburbs of Detroit, Los Angeles and
New York, home to the country's
largest communities of first-generation
Arabic-speaking immigrants.
U.S.
Considers Advertising On Al-Jazeera
Ira Teinowitz/Advertising Age/October
15, 2001
Faced with "a battle
for the mind" and the need to tell
moderate Muslims that the U.S. isn't
fighting Islam, Charlotte Beers, the
State Department's chief of public diplomacy,
says the U.S. is investigating new ways
to reach out.
Prime
Minister Tony Blair Grilled by Arab
TV
Marie Woolf/The Independent/October
10, 2001
The broadcast, planned
by Downing Street as a means of communicating
directly with the Arab world, turned
into a painful grilling for the Prime
Minister.
Transcript:
British Prime Minister Tony Blair, October
9, 2001
Window
on the War
Terence Smith/PBS NewsHour/October 8,
2001
The Qatar-based Al-Jazeera
network has garnered a growing role
as a conduit between the Western and
Arab worlds. They are currently booking
at least six hours a day of satellite
time from Washington to the Arab world.
Mass
Media Can Battle Mass Destruction
Newton N. Minow/USA Today/March 19,
2002
Al-Jazeera teaches an important
lesson: The global marketplace of news
and information is no longer dominated
by the United States. Whether the message
is one of hate or peace, in the globalized
communications environment it is impossible
either to silence those who send the
message or stop those who want to receive
it.
The
Osama Shortfall
Katarzyna Moreno/Forbes/March 4, 2002
Broadcasting bin Laden's
ramblings will likely cost Al-Jazeera
$4 million in lost advertising -- perhaps
a quarter of its annual revenue. The
Saudi government didn't like the pro-Osama
war coverage, sources close to the network
say, and pressured Saudi-based companies
and other multinationals to boycott
it.
Al-Jazeera
in English? CNN in Arabic?
Tiare Rath/The Daily Star(Beirut)/February
7, 2002
In January, Al-Jazeera
decided to break the communication barrier
by broadcasting with English subtitles
12 hours a day in the United States.
Around the same time, CNN announced
that it was jumping into the Arab market
by launching its Arabic-language website,
based in Dubai.
Cheney
Warned Al-Jazeera About bin Laden Tapes
CNN/February 2, 2002
A day before Al-Jazeera
network interviewed Osama bin Laden,
U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney urged
the network to act "in a more responsible
and representative way" when reporting
on the suspected terrorist mastermind,
a senior administration source told
CNN Friday. In a meeting with with the
emir of Qatar, Cheney said the network
ran the risk of being labeled "Osama's
outlet to the world."
News
Channels at War: Al-Jazeera Accused
of Hiding bin Laden
Oliver Burkeman/The Guardian/February
2, 2002
"We decided under
the circumstances at that time that
airing the interview would have strengthened
the belief that we are a mouthpiece
for Bin Laden," an anonymous Al-Jazeera
journalist told Reuters. But Bin Laden
also uses the interview to attack the
Gulf state of Qatar, where Al-Jazeera
is based, for supporting the war on
terrorism, raising the suspicion that
the channel did not want to upset its
host state.
Networks
Row Over bin Laden Tape
BBC/February 1, 2002
A row has broken out between
the American network CNN and the Arabic
satellite channel Al-Jazeera over the
broadcasting of an interview with Osama
bin Laden.
In
October Interview, bin Laden Hinted
at Role
Jim Rutenberg/The New York Times/February
1, 2002
In a television interview
Osama bin Laden gave in late October,
he said the anthrax attacks last fall
were "a punishment from God"
and hinted in vague language at having
a hand in the Sept. 11 attacks. The
interview was conducted by the Arab
television network Al Jazeera, but was
not shown until last night on CNN, which
said it obtained a copy independently
and showed it against Al Jazeera's wishes.
Bin
Laden's Sole Post-September 11 TV Interview
Aired
CNN/January 31, 2002
The interview was conducted
by the Arabic-language Al-Jazeera network
in late October. Al-Jazeera decided
not to televise it. CNN has obtained
the videotape and began airing it Thursday
night.
Read Al-Jazeera's
statement on CNN's airing of the
interview.
Interview transcript
and analysis by Peter Bergen and
Jerrold Post.
Interview
With bin Laden Makes the Rounds
James Risen and Patrick E. Tyler/The
New York Times/December 12, 2001
Al-Jazeera obtained an
exclusive interview with Osama bin Laden
in October, but never broadcast it,
partly because it revealed how much
Mr. bin Laden had intimidated the network's
correspondent, according to U.S. and
Middle Eastern government officials.
The decision also followed a meeting
between U.S. VP Dick Cheney and the
Emir of Qatar.
Al-Jazeera
Airs Newly Released bin Laden Videotape
CNN/December 26, 2001
Osama bin Laden said on
Wednesday that the West loathed Islam,
and that the September 11 attacks were
aimed at U.S. support for Israel. "Our
terrorism against the United States
is worthy of praise to deter the oppressor
so that America stop its support for
Israel, which is killing our children,''
he said in a video broadcast by Al-Jazeera.
America's
Latest Fear: bin Laden On Al-Jazeera
David Wastell/Telegraph/December 23,
2001
It's the event that strategists
in President Bush's administration fear
most: a grinning Osama bin Laden crackling
on to the airwaves courtesy of Al-Jazeera
to trumpet his escape from Tora Bora
and denounce the West.
Transmissions
of Al-Jazeera Fade Away
Abdullah Iqbal/Gulf News/December 22,
2001
Some Pakistani cable operators
say that the government has ordered
them to stop offering Al-Jazeera. There
is speculation that this could be linked
to recent rumours that Osama bin Laden
is getting set for an "especially
dramatic" broadcast on the station.
Arab
TV's Strong Signal
Sharon Waxman/Washington Post/December
4, 2001
From watching Al-Jazeera
for any length of time, it's clear that
it takes a consistently hostile stance
toward the U.S. In Al-Jazeera's world,
the Taliban is invariably an underdog
force, the U.S. looms as an occupying
power, and Egypt and other moderate
Arab states have knuckled under to the
superpower's pressure.
TV
News Tuned In To the Middle East
Eric Deggans/St. Petersburg Times/November
25, 2001
The professor agreed to
sit next to me for awhile and translate
the Qatar-based news outlet's 3:30 p.m.
report so I could see for myself what
has the U.S. government and some American
journalists so knotted up.
U.S.
Plans TV Station to Rival Al-Jazeera
Duncan Campbell/The Guardian/November
23, 2001
The U.S. is considering
a plan to spend $500 million to launch
a satellite channel that would compete
with Al-Jazeera and be aimed at younger
Muslims who are seen as anti-American.
How
Smart Was This Bomb?
Matt Wells/The Guardian/November 19,
2001
Did the U.S. mean to hit
the Kabul offices of Al-Jazeera TV?
Some journalists are convinced it was
targeted for being on the "wrong
side." Nik Gowing, a presenter
on BBC World, argues that Al-Jazeera's
only crime was that it was "bearing
witness" to events that the U.S.
would rather it did not see.
What
the Muslim World Is Watching
Fouad Ajami/The New York Times/November
18, 2001
Al-Jazeera's defenders
tend to applaud its independence from
the censors who control state-sponsored
outlets in the Arab world, but its virulent
anti-American bias undercuts all of
its virtues. It is, in the final analysis,
a dangerous force. And it should treated
as such by Washington.
Ali Abunimah disputes Ajami's assertions.
More commentary on Ajami's article.
Al-Jazeera
Accuses U.S. of Bombing Its Kabul Office
Matt Wells/The Guardian/November 17,
2001
Al-Jazeera's chief editor
claims the U.S. had wanted to bomb its
Kabul office since the war began, but
that it waited until the BBC reopened
its bureau there because it didn't want
to knock the only Kabul-based broadcaster
off the air.
Al-Jazeera
Correspondent Released in Texas
BBC/November 15, 2001
Al-Jazeera says
its Washington correspondent, who was
arrested in the U.S. has now been released.
Mohammad al-Alami was detained as he
was on his way to cover the Russian-American
summit in Texas. He said police told
him that the credit card of the al-Jazeera
office contained information connected
with what is going on in Afghanistan.
news
Web site suffers hits
Cnet Asia, Asia - 20
hours ago
... Global company
Navlink, who host the Aljazeera.net
primary DNS, were unable to
comment at the time of writing. However their
own Web site is offline also. ...
Al-Jazeera
Calls on US to Ensure Free Press
Yahoo
News - 44 minutes ago
... Al-Jazeera's new
English-language Web site (http:english.aljazeera.net),
which
went live on Monday, and its Arabic-language
site (www.aljazeera.net) were ...
Al-Jazeera
website attacked
Sydney
Morning Herald, Australia - 8
hours ago
... Its new site (english.aljazeera .net) went live on Monday, but was quickly
hit
by hacker attacks - as was the Arabic-language
site (www.aljazeera.net). ...
Al-Jazeera
websites 'hit by hackers'
Guardian, UK - 10
hours ago
Neither aljazeera.net,
which gets the most hits of any Arabic website
in the world,
nor english.aljazeera.net, which launched
on Monday, were available this ...
Local
Iraqi Watches News Closely
WTOL, OH - Mar
24, 2003
Naimy monitors all broadcast
news, including the live feed of Aljazeera ((Arabic
Television based in Quatar)). He is troubled
by conflicting news reports. ...
Al
Jazeera Web site offers a second opinion
Kansas
City Star, MO - 5 hours
ago
... site Monday. What
few stories were posted to the site (english.aljazeera.net)
on Tuesday morning took forever to load. Still,
it's ...
Web
site may be victim of hackers
Toronto
Star, Canada - 8 hours
ago
Al-Jazeera's new English-language
Web site (english.aljazeera.net)
launched Monday, was flooded with Internet
traffic. Whether that ...
Blog,
Blog, Blog: War On The Web
Forbes - 6
hours ago
... So is english.aljazeera.net,
the English-language Web site of al-Jazeera,
the Arab-language
satellite broadcaster based in Qatar--which,
as it happens is where ...
Al-Jazeera
hobbled by DDOS attack
InfoWorld, CA - 2
hours ago
... 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.aljazeera ...
Nasdaq
Stock Market Turns Away Al Jazeera
Reuters, UK - 27
minutes ago
By Nicole Maestri. NEW YORK
(Reuters) - Arabic-language television network
al Jazeera, banned this week from airing live
market reports ..
