Posted on 04/19/2004 7:55:47 AM PDT by SpinyNorman
U.S. says Al-Jazeera putting troops at risk
U.S. officials in Iraq expect a pro-Arab slant from Al-Jazeera, the Qatar-based satellite television network that is beamed to about 40 million Arab viewers. U.S. officials are documenting cases of what they consider to be incindiary stories by Al-Jazeera.
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"If somebody sees it a different way than we do, that's OK. If somebody's got a different editorial view, that's OK. But when they start telling intentional lies, that goes beyond the pale," says Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt, the authority's military spokesman in Baghdad.
On Thursday, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld called reports by Al-Jazeera that U.S. troops were terrorizing Iraqi civilians "vicious, inaccurate and inexcusable. They are simply lying."
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This is not the first time the Bush administration has quarreled with Al-Jazeera, which it has at times branded as Osama bin Laden's "mouthpiece." But it is the most public stance yet against the network's reporting.
A provisional authority report shows 34 instances from April 8 to 13 in which officials said Al-Jazeera hyped, misreported or distorted events in Iraq. Those ranged from reports of a U.S. F-16 and a Chinook helicopter being shot down to U.S. soldiers killing and mutilating civilians, using cluster bombs and firing at Al-Jazeera reporters.
None of those reports was true, Kimmitt says, but the fallout can be deadly for U.S. forces.
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A spokesman for Al-Jazeera, Jihad Ballout, says "it is news to me" that the authority had begun a list of what it says are Al-Jazeera's journalistic offenses, but he has heard Rumsfeld's charge.
"I think the harsh criticism is unwarranted," Ballout says. "We are merely a news organization that tries to do its job as professionally as possible, that reports what's on the ground and tries to be as comprehensive as possible. We have never shied away from inviting comments and responses from American authorities."
Kimmitt and others say U.S. authorities have repeatedly complained to Al-Jazeera about its reports. As for Ballout's comment, Kimmitt says, "I fear he protests a bit too much."
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Any more coincidence, and the little ba$tard would be holding a RPG in his hands!
Sorry about the fact that I have to excerpt the article.
This poor general is going to have a heart attack when he returns and sees what the Democrat party does over here.
See, he is using an expression that refers to the old Jewish homeland in central Europe. It is all part of the international zionist conspiracy
Well, DUH!!! Al-Jazeera is nothing more than the propaganda wing of the Islamo-Facists and quite clearly is used to gather intelligence for them as well.
Far as I am concerned, they are no better than the insurgent terrorist. SHUT THEM DOWN AND SHIP THEIR ARSE OUT.
Hmmmmmm, now that I think about it, if they want the front page exclusives, let's put them with our Marines (isolated of course with no means of communicating) and let the Marines use THEM for human shields. Talk about some on the spot reporting.
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