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At one point, whenever the TV crew would attempt to broadcast, U.S. jets would target their signal, even though it was unlike any of the rudimentary communication devices employed by the harried resistance fighters.

Al Jazeera critics wrote off the network's complaints as sensationalism. By the time the U.S. attacked Fallujah, however, there was already a growing body of damning evidence indicating that the Pentagon was in fact targeting the last remaining unembedded TV network with an effective on-the-ground operation in Iraq. U.S. forces, one year earlier, bombed Al Jazeera's Baghdad offices, killing reporter Tareq Ayoub, after the network naively gave their GPS coordinates to the Pentagon in order to prevent an accidental attack. A few days earlier, U.S. forces bombed a hotel in Basra that was used exclusively by Al Jazeera. American forces also seized several Al Jazeera reporters, imprisoning them in now infamous gulags including Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo, where they claim they were tortured. Two years earlier we bombed Al Jazeera's Afghanistan studios in Kabul.

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Last month, Britain's Daily Mirror reported that George W. Bush, during the siege of Fallujah, approached British Prime Minister Tony Blair with a plan to silence Al Jazeera once and for all. Having failed to kill their crew on the ground in Fallujah, Bush supposedly wanted to put out a hit on the whole damned network, in effect going to war against Qatar, by bombing Al Jazeera's global headquarters in Doha, Qatar's capitol.

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Investigative reporter Yousri Fouda from Al-Jazeera, the Arabic satellite television station, talks about his interviews with the al Qaeda members behind 9/11 and the danger al-Jazeera correspondents risk in light of the U.S. bombings of networks stations, the killing of correspondents, and the jailing of al-Jazeera reporters. Fouda speaks about the international attitude towards the network as it grows. [includes rush transcript] Their offices were bombed twice in Afghanistan. Their Baghdad correspondent was killed In Iraq. One of their top correspondents was sentenced to seven years in prison after he was convicted of collaborating with al Qaeda. Their reporter was arrested en route to a summit in Crawford. Their New York correspondents were thrown off the floors of the New York Stock Exchange and NASDAQ. We're talking about al-Jazeera, the Arabic satellite television station based in Qatar.

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Originally posted by marfknox

So I am out of the loop. Good thing grad school is over with.

Thanks for the links, be!

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Originally posted by marfknox

So I am out of the loop. Good thing grad school is over with.

Thanks for the links, be!

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You are welcome and BTW, CONGRATULATIONS!!! Was there a congratulatory thread on you completing grad school somewhere?

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Originally posted by BigPapaSmurf

Yeah never rely on the american media for this type of thing, its bad for ratings and causes execs headaches so they avoid it like the plague.

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Originally posted by beskeptigal

I'd join the chat more often but it's not worth fighting my son for the computer then.

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