Enver Masud, "FBI May Eliminate Dagestani
Websites," The Wisdom Fund, September 9, 1999
Matt Wells, "Did
the US mean to hit the Kabul offices of Al-Jazeera TV?," Guardian,
November 19, 2001
Ilene R. Prusher, "In Volatile Iraq, US
Curbs Press," Christian Science Monitor, June 19, 2003
"Iraq Evicts Reporters from Najaf,"
Associated Press, August 15, 2004
[Vice President Dick Cheney, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary
of State Condoleezza Rice, former Secretary of State Colin L. Powell and
other Bush administration officials have complained heatedly to Qatari
leaders that Al Jazeera's broadcasts have been inflammatory, misleading and
occasionally false--Steven R. Weisman, "Under Pressure, Qatar May
Sell Jazeera Station," New York Times, January 30, 2005]
Kevin Maguire, "LAW CHIEF GAGS THE MIRROR
ON BUSH LEAK," Daily Mirror, November 23, 2005
Linda S. Heard, "Targeting
Al Jazeera," CounterPunch, November 23, 2005
Boris Johnson, "I'll go to jail to print
the truth about Bush and al-Jazeera," Telegraph, November 24, 2005
Robert Fisk, "No wonder
al-Jazeera was a target," Independent, November 26, 2005
Jamie Doward, Antony Barnett, Peter Beaumont, David Rose and Mark Townsend,
"The leak that revealed Bush's deep obsession with al-Jazeera ,"
Observer, November 27, 2005
[The military's effort to disseminate propaganda in the Iraqi media is
taking place even as U.S. officials are vowing to promote democratic
principles, political transparency and freedom of speech to a country
emerging from decades of dictatorship and corruption. It comes as the State
Department is training Iraqi reporters in basic journalism skills and
Western media ethics, including one workshop titled "The Role of Press in a
Democratic Society."--Mark Mazzetti and Borzou Daragahi, "US paying Iraqi press to run
favourable stories," Los Angeles Times, November 30, 2005]
[Al-Jazeera's quest for answers has been met with silence from both the
White House and Downing Street--Wadah Khanfar, "Why did you want to
bomb me, Mr Bush and Mr Blair?," Guardian, December 1, 2005]
[Nothing puts the lie to the Bush Administration's absurd claim that it
invaded Iraq to spread democracy throughout the Middle East more decisively
than its ceaseless attacks on Al Jazeera, the institution that has done more
than any other to break the stranglehold over information previously held by
authoritarian forces, whether monarchs, military strongmen, occupiers or
ayatollahs. The United States bombed its offices in Afghanistan in 2001,
shelled the Basra hotel where Al Jazeera journalists were the only guests in
April 2003, killed Iraq correspondent Tareq Ayoub a few days later in
Baghdad and imprisoned several Al Jazeera reporters (including at
Guant‡namo), some of whom say they were tortured. In addition to the
military attacks, the US-backed Iraqi government banned the network from
reporting in Iraq.--Jeremy Scahill, "The War on Al
Jazeera," The Nation, December 1, 2005]
"US
troops seize award-winning Iraqi journalist," Guardian, January 9, 2006
[Now the US, which maintains a large military base in Qatar, has adopted a
more subtle approach to breaking the Arabs' voice of independence and
diversity.--George Galloway, "The threat
to al-Jazeera," Guardian, June 15, 2007]
[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, . . .
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. . . .
Al-Hajj still bears the scars of some of his treatment, his lawyer said - a
broken kneecap that was stomped on by guards at Bagram, and marks on his
knees from being forced to kneel on cold concrete for long periods at
Kandahar. U.S. military police at Kandahar also beat him regularly and
pulled out the hairs of his beard one by one, Smith said.--Bob Egelko, "Journalist says U.S. target was Al-Jazeera," San Francisco
Chronicle, August 17, 2008]
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