6. No more 4 AM Sunday morning "Religious Chat and Guns."
7. [continue until spanked]
Qatar sheiks
2. Why would the Clymers who run CNN air these words--considering their behavior could likely be signals or words to incite more deaths--instructions or a rallying cry. Seems to be blood could be spilled because CNN wants to be "first on the air" with the words of murderers.
They are clueless
3. Couldn't CNN still report the statement or a summary WITHOUT airing the actual speech?
see p.2
4. What if a stray missile just kind of took out the transmission tower of this hate-fueling tv station?
It is in Qatar, which is "an ally". Allies do not attack allies.
Remember, loose lips sink ships, and that saying cuts both ways. The more we can listen to Bin Laden, the more likely we are to figure him out and defeat him.
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I don't know about taking it off the air though. Seeing bin Laden speak the other day was a real gut kick for a lot of folks, including me and it may help them see what we're up against. Sometimes it's a good thing to look into the face of the enemy...just to reaffirm what we have to do.
Then the only media that Arabs would see would be their state-controlled media.
Al-Jezira is the only remotely close to unbiased news source in the Arab World. Colin Powell recently did an interview with them. They routinely show Bush, Rumsfeld, etc. press conferences translated, unedited.
The more these jackals spout this propaganda, the easier it gets to eradicate them as the pestilence to civilization they are.
They've been known to tackle issues like women's rights under Islam--talk about a serious hot potato issue over there!
By the way, the primary means of al-Jazeera's tranmission is by satellite broadcasting--but almost anyone in the Middle East who has money owns the satellite dish system necessary to receive this channel.
WASHINGTON, Oct 9 (Reuters) - The United States went public on Tuesday with its complaints against the Qatari satellite television station al-Jazeera, saying it had carried inflammatory rhetoric and totally untrue stories.
The United States complained to the Qatari government last week after the popular Arabic-language station rebroadcast its interviews with Saudi-Born militant Osama bin Laden, prime suspect in the Sept. 11 attacks on New York and Washington.
Al-Jazeera, which is owned by the Qatari government and has a bureau in the Afghan capital Kabul, was then the sole source for a statement released by bin Laden after the United States and Britain began attacks on Afghanistan on Sunday.
"We've expressed our concerns about some of the kinds of things we've seen on their air, particularly inflammatory stories, totally untrue stories, things like that," said U.S. State Department spokesman Richard Boucher.
"We would certainly like to see them tone down the rhetoric," he told a daily briefing.
Secretary of State Colin Powell put a complaint to the Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, in Washington last week and was told that the Qatari government wanted media freedom in preparation for parliamentary life.
A State Department official said the United States remained concerned and was continuing to monitor al-Jazeera's coverage of the conflict in Afghanistan.
"We relayed our concerns ... that it tended to be a platform for Osama bin Laden and his supporters, that it tended to give them free rein," he said.
"Yes to freedom of the press but we think it's beyond the pale to provide an open platform for these sort of violent ideas. We're concerned everywhere that Osama bin Laden not be able to use the media to spread his ideas," he said.
Al-Jazeera broadcast another exclusive taped statement on Tuesday, this time by Qaeda spokesman Sulaiman Bu Ghaith.
Western leaders, including Powell and British prime Minister Tony Blair, have given interviews to al-Jazeera and Boucher said other U.S. officials would try to be available. The White House said on Tuesday that President George W. Bush would consider giving an interview.
Last month the State Department, using arguments similar to those against al-Jazeera, tried to persuade government-funded Voice of America not to air an interview with Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar, a close associate of Osama bin Laden. Voice of America aired excerpts of it regardless. ((Jonathan Wright, State Department bureau, +1 202 898 8393, fax +1 202 659 5254, jonathan.wright@reuters.com))
It's even more important to have that live feed when they get hit.....
Emir of Qutar. The supreme ruler. Qutar is an ally of the US in the middle east. They are one emirates bordering Saudi Arabia. President Bush met with reps of the Al Jazeera in the Oval Office last week. Told them to tone it down and keep it balanced. A missle to the station would get us thrown out of Saudi Arabia pronto, even though the Saudi government would probably be happy that the station was off the air. None of the Middle Eastern states, Arab or Jew likes the station. They piss off everyone.
Why do these nutcases continue to be given a forum? Why are public airwaves allowing themselves to be used as the communication facilities for the terrorists, to spread the word to all their followers? If CNN would not broadcast these statements, a lot of the followers would go by the wayside. By broadcasting them, isn't CNN complicit in helping to spread the calls to action for these groups?
Al Jazeera may be the tool that brings an enlightenment to the Islamic world.
In journalism, when all sides say you are being biased, you are probably doing your job right.