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Syrian police early Tuesday reportedly opened fire on thousands of protesters who’d occupied a key square in the Syrian city of HomsSyrian police early Tuesday reportedly opened fire on thousands of protesters... more
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Qatar is a very tiny country which is situated in the Persian Gulf along with the other United Emirates member countries. It is also ruled by a monarchy, but it has certain strengths not shared by the other Arab monarchies.
First and foremost, from a Western perspective, Qatar enjoys excellent relations with both France and the United States, particularly when it come to military support: It is home to the US Central Command that led the wars in both Iraq and Afghanistan, and France has supplied the Emirate with 80% of its materiel for the Qatari army.
Qatar is also the home of al-Jazeera, the cable news channel that no longer needs an introduction. Yesterday afternoon, al-Jazeera announced that four Qatari aircraft were about to join Operation Odyssey Dawn, the name given to the military intervention to prevent the slaughter of civilians by Colonel Muammar Qaddafi. This move is deemed of paramount importance to the coalition forces, as it will give credibility to the mission as humanitarian rather than imperialistic. It will also add to Qatar's importance in the region, despite its small size.Qatar is a very tiny country which is situated in the Persian Gulf along with the... more
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According to the report, Al-Jazeera is just about keeping it's broadcasts going in Egypt after the Cairo base was shut down and the arrests of five journalists.
The article says on the ground reporters, call ins and a camera at Tahrir Square are still going but there are fears as the Mubarak regime shuffles the cabinet government there will be more attempts to close the networks in Egypt.
"Between this and reports of the redeployment of police officers, this should raise worries of a hard crackdown by the Mubarak regime."-business insiderAccording to the report, Al-Jazeera is just about keeping it's broadcasts going... more
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The 7PM EST News this evening on al-Jazeera featured former US Israeli ambassador Martin Indyk as guest for about half of the 30 minute segment. Indyk is currently Vice President for Foreign Policy at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C
In a February 14th, 2010 al-Jazeera news report, Indyk is also said to have been responsible for 'a number of controversial (read failed) policies towards the Muslim world as National Security Director for the Middle East in the Clinton White House, including the policy of "dual containment" towards Iran and Iraq, and the failed peace process in Israel-Palestine.'
Since yesterday's release of the 1670 documents, referred to as the Palestine Papers', which represent a decade of negotiations between the Palestine Authority and Israel, there have been very strong denials from Palestinian leaders about what has so far surfaced as concessions they seemed to have made without getting much in return.
Continue reading on Examiner.com: The Palestine Papers: former US Israeli ambassador blames al-Jazeera on the air - National Foreign Policy | Examiner.com http://www.examiner.com/foreign-policy-in-national/the-palestine-papers-former-israeli-ambassador-blames-al-jazeera-on-the-air#ixzz1C0XZGn00The 7PM EST News this evening on al-Jazeera featured former US Israeli ambassador... more
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A major document leak has revealed that Palestinian negotiators secretly told Israel it could keep large amounts of occupied Middle East, contrary to what the Palestinian public was told.
According to al-Jazeera, Palestinian negotiators secretly agreed to accept Israel's annexation of all but one of the settlements (Har Homa) built illegally in occupied East Jerusalem. All settlements built on occupied territory in the 1967 war are illegal according to international law, though Israel views them as municipal "neighbourhoods". Israel came close to annexing the settlements during the Camp David talks in 2000, though discussions later fell apart.
Obtained by al-Jazeera, the documents are minutes taken from a 2008 meeting between Palestinian, US and Israeli officals. They are thought to have been leaked from a Palestinian source and al-Jazeera says it has other documents that will be published soon that show Palestine was ready to make other major concessions.
Palestine's chief negotiator Saeb Erekat dismissed the documents as "a bunch of lies"
"We have not gone back on our position," he told al-Jazeera.
"If we had given ground on the refugees and made such concessions, why hasn't Israel agreed to sign a peace accord?"
The BBC's Middle East Bureau chief, Paul Danahar, says the revelations won't surprise anyone closely connected to the peace talks.
"A key question is who gains from the leak? There isn't much here that will shock anyone with private knowledge of the peace process. But the average Palestinian may feel betrayed because their leadership has been telling them a different story.
"The Americans don't gain much. The Israelis look churlish for turning down major concessions."
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DUBAI: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has said his whistleblowing website plans to publish hundreds of "sensitive" US diplomatic cables on Israel, Al-Jazeera television reported on Thursday.
"Sensitive and classified documents" on Israel's 2006 war on Lebanon and January's assassination in Dubai of Hamas militant Mahmud al-Mabhuh would be released, Assange told Al-Jazeera in an interview.
Assange said WikiLeaks had 3,700 US documents on Israel, including 2,700 originating from the Jewish state, but denied the website had any agreement in place to spare the country of leaks.
"We do not have any secret deals with any country," he said according to an Arabic translation of remarks he made in English which were posted on Al-Jazeera's website.
"We do not have any direct or indirect contacts with the Israelis," Assange is quoted as saying, adding no more than two percent of available documents on Israel have been released so far.
Some of Israel's neighbours, most notably Turkey, have expressed unease at the lack of leaks the whistleblowing website has released on the Jewish state.
Israel fought a devastating one-month war with Lebanon's Shiite movement Hezbollah in the summer of 2006 that killed more than 1,200 people in Lebanon, most of them civilians, and 160 Israelis, mainly soldiers.
Dubai police chief Lieutenant General Dahi Khalfan has linked Israel's spy agency Mossad to the January 20 Cold War-style assassination in a Dubai hotel of Mabhuh.
http://bit.ly/fmBKWuDUBAI: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has said his whistleblowing website plans to... more
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Five women presenters resigned from Al-Jazeera news. They were tired of the many offenses received and of the new dress code. The news channel changed its editorial policy, with a more Islamic orientation. And once again, in the world, women are suffering a men choice.
http://www.inaltreparole.net/en/journalism/giornalistelascianoaljazeera010610.htmlFive women presenters resigned from Al-Jazeera news. They were tired of the many... more
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Israel Forces Fired On Sleeping Civillians Under Cover Of Darkness
Heavily armed soldiers “began to shoot the moment their feet hit the deck”
Steve Watson
Prisonplanet.com
May 31st, 2010
While the Israeli government is praising it’s soldiers as heroes and saying they were acting in self defense by firing on unarmed civilians flying a white flag in international waters, one group involved with the Freedom Flotilla has a quite different story.
A spokeswoman for Israel Defense Forces (IDF), Avital Leibovich, claims that Israeli officers gave several warnings before boarding the the Turkish boat, the Mavi Marmara.
Full Story...Gaza Flotilla Attack VIDEOS: Israel IDF Forces Fired On Sleeping Civillians In The Darkness…Watch VIDEO…http://ctpatriot1970.wordpress.com/2010/05/31/gaza-flotilla-attack-videos-israel-idf-forces-fired-on-sleeping-civillians-in-the-darkness-31-dead/
Somehow, according to Leibovich, when the soldiers did board the boat, they were then attacked by unarmed activists and relieved of their guns – a claim that is not backed up by video footage of the ambush.Israel Forces Fired On Sleeping Civillians Under Cover Of Darkness
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Al Jazeera is officially less biased than Fox News.... wow..and we wonder why therest of the world hates us
i am merely relay this.. it is al-jazeera.. i am assuming they are biased but this is afirly good reporting.. they could learn from the FOX NEWS model..
i found this interesting
About 1,400 Palestinians – the majority of them civilians - and 13 Israelis were killed during Israel's three-week war on Gaza between December and January, which had the stated aim of stopping rocket attacks by Palestinian fighters from the coastal territory.
still unbiased... of course i cant speak Arabic so i am only assuming that this is a proper translatiion of what is on the "real" siteAl Jazeera is officially less biased than Fox News.... wow..and we wonder why therest... more
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The airport shuttle driver accused of plotting a bombing in New York had contacts with al-Qaida that went nearly all the way to the top, to an Osama bin Laden confidant believed to be the terrorist group's leader in Afghanistan, U.S. intelligence officials told The Associated PressThe airport shuttle driver accused of plotting a bombing in New York had contacts with... more
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After more than six years as a prisoner of the United States, former TV cameraman Sami al-Hajj is back at work with Al-Jazeera, the largest broadcaster in the Arab world, a thorn in the side of most Arab governments - and, by most indications, a target of deep hostility from the Bush administration.
Al-Hajj, 39, was the longest-held journalist in U.S. custody at the time of his release in May, and the only one ever held at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Military authorities repeatedly accused him of being a terrorist in league with al Qaeda, then released him without charges.
His case is emblematic of the poisoned relationship between the U.S. government and a television network with 40 million viewers in the Middle East.
Since 2001, Bush administration officials have regularly denounced Al-Jazeera as an anti-American propaganda organ and a mouthpiece for terrorists, and have periodically urged its chief patron, the emir of Qatar, to rein it in.
The United States even founded a rival Arab-language network, Al Hurra, in 2004, but commentators on the region generally agree it hasn’t made a dent in Al-Jazeera’s popularity.
Al-Jazeera has also been hit twice by U.S. artillery fire. One shelling destroyed its Kabul bureau in November 2001. The second struck a Baghdad office in April 2003, killing correspondent Tareq Ayoub. The U.S. military concluded both shellings were accidents.
According to the Defense Department, al-Hajj was just another suspected terrorist among the 780 who have been held as enemy combatants since January 2002 at Guantanamo. But his lawyer, Clive Stafford Smith, says al-Hajj’s imprisonment was all about Al-Jazeera.
“We calculated about 135 times he’d been interrogated, and about the first 120 the only interest they had was Al-Jazeera,” Smith said. “They told him that they thought Al-Jazeera was an al Qaeda front.
“They were trying to get him to finger a number of well-known Al-Jazeera journalists as being in the Muslim Brotherhood,” an Islamist organization based in Egypt. “They offered to let him go if he’d spy.”
Al-Hajj’s response, Smith said, was that “he’d rather stay in Guantanamo for another 10 years.”
Al-Hajj gave a similar account to a gathering of supporters in his native Sudan in late May.
“They wanted me to betray the principles of my job and to turn me into a spy,” he said, according to an Al-Jazeera account.
Smith, who heads a London-based legal organization called Reprieve, which has represented about 80 inmates at Guantanamo, took on al-Hajj’s case in 2005 after the prisoner’s brother contacted him.
His information about the case, he said, comes from speaking with his client and from investigating the government’s varying allegations against him - all of which, Smith said, proved baseless.**continues**After more than six years as a prisoner of the United States, former TV cameraman Sami... more
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Arrested in Pakistan in December 2001, Sami al-Haj spent nearly six-and-a-half years at Guantanamo without charge or trial. He had been on a more than a year-long hunger strike to protest his imprisonment. We hear al-Haj’s first public remarks from his hospital bed in Sudan and speak to his brother, Asim al-Haj.Arrested in Pakistan in December 2001, Sami al-Haj spent nearly six-and-a-half years... more
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