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Re: PA censoring journalists again, but repudiating bin Laden...
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Wed, 10 Oct 2001 14:53:20 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Lawrence Wilkes writes:
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> "Scott A" <eh105jb@mx1.pair.com> wrote in message news:GKzrn5.JME@lugnet.com...
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> > Is this "censoring" really any worse than this:
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> > US urges curb on Arab TV channel
> > http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_1578000/1578619.stm
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> > Washington has asked Qatar to reign in the influential and editorially
> > independent Arabic al-Jazeera television station, which gives airtime to
> > anti-American opinions.
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> There was an interview with the al-Jazeera interviewer who interviewed Tony Blair on BBC this morning.
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> He was himself ex-BBC and said that most of his colleagues were BBC trained.
Indeed, a good deal of the staff worked for BBC Middle East. The Saudi's
closed it down (it was based there) when they found it had a habit of
telling the truth. Just after that al-Jazeera started up in Qatar - it was a
natural move for the staff.
I must admit, I had fell for the line that it was ObL’s mouthpiece. But the
more I read about it, the more I think that is not quite true.
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> Apparently he gave Tony Blair a hard time (I haven't seen this interview re-broadcast anywhere), and he said that he
> though Tony Blair was very vague in some of his answers. In particular he said he was very vague about whether he
> considered certain organisations in other Middle East areas such as Palestine and Syria to be terrorists or freedom
> fighters. Not surprising though. The al-Jazeera interviewer said something along the lines of what is disturbing the
> Arab nations is not the invasion of Afganistan and going after bin-Laden, but the perceived threat that the US will go
> after other terrorist organisations in that general area too but without being clear who they are yet.
Yes, I think I heard a list of the questions he was asked by them this
morning on R4. I did not hear his answers!
Scott A
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