Posted on 05/25/2004 8:50:25 AM PDT by sathers
On the rolling ticker/news summary: (middle of the linked page)
The German weekly 'Der Speigel' claims to have original secret documents in Arabic identifying 24 Al Jazeera and media personalities who were paid bribes by the Iraqi Mukhabart.[Saddam's Intel operation]
The list includes the Director of Al Jazeera Muhammad Jassim Al-Ali, who has since been fired, and Abdul Bari Atwan, the editor of the daily Al-Quds Al-Arabi (MEMRI source: Al-Taakhi newspaper, Iraq)
CIA Director Tenet said to have visited Qatar secretly last week to deliver a strong message to Qatari leaders about Al Jazeera television serving as a mouthpiece for Islamists to incite violence against American forces in Iraq. (MEMRI source: Al Sabah Newspaper, Iraq)
American Army paid individuals in Al -Sadr city near Baghdad $3.1 Million to surrender about 4,000 Kalachnikovs, 9,000 mortar shells, 260 RPG missiles and 2220 hand grenades in addition to a large amount of ammunition. (MEMRI source: Al-Zaman Newspaper, Iraq)
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I am shocked.
Did ABCCBSNBCMSNBC report this?
Did CNN send their war slut to cover this?
Did The Paper Of Record kill a tree for this?
If the answer to these questions is NO, then The Sheep will never know.
Someday, we may even find the secret documents outlining the terms of the in-perpetuity deal between the alphabet networks in this country and the radical left.
It probably wasn't healthy to report the truth in any case. The money was just icing on the cake.
BUMP!
They're worse.
taking odds on finding dan rather's name on the list.Traitors for hire.
I'm stunned! Al Jazeera was paid to root for Saddam? How could this be..
Saddam has killed hundreds of thousands (over a million maybe?) of Mohammedans, and he was bribing Al Jazeera.
Will the Mohammedan world protest against Al Jazeera being in the pocket of a man who killed so many of their own kind?
(holding my breath)
Tim Russert, Chris Matthews, Katie Couric, Matt Lauer, Andy Rooney.. (just off the top of my head)
I'm shocked, too. Why would Iraq feel the need to bribe Al Jazeera?
Interesting.....this reminds me of the secret Tenet visit to Pakistan.
And I'm guessing those documents will be found at the headquarters of : moveon.org, World Workers headquarters, AFL-CIO, NEA, NARAL, and the private pigsty of Michael Moore.
You know Abdel Bari Atwan. He appears just about weekly as a pundit on BBC's dateline program, and is also often used by both Sky News and CNN.
He tends to be so outragous that he is almost funny. On the latest Dateline program this sunday he offered Tony Blair the following solution to Britains binge drinking problem:
Force everyone to convert to Islam. Problem solved.
Is this info about the bribes legit, it is a mjor scandal and should be hugely embarrasing to BBC in particular.
Did Sadaam bribe ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, BBC, etc.?
I figure the content of their reporting is just about the same as al Jazzera...could it be that they're on the dole as well?
The liberals in the American media are gonna be pissed - they've been inciting violence against American forces in Iraq for free all these months.
And I believe Der Spiegel is a liberal publication, and generally well-respected in Europe. But this is one story we probably won't hear from Dan Rather or Peter Jennings; it doesn't fit their Iraq-quagmire-chaos-America-is-always-wrong template.
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