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“Vermont city split over Al Jazeera on cable”
Pete Chagnon - OneNewsNow - 6/25/2008 6:00:00 AM

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Many Burlington residents are upset that the city cable provider would carry Al Jazeera English because they see the network as being anti-American. But Zeppernick says those opponents have been labeled racists.

“There have been quite a number of calls saying that the people who do not want Al Jazeera on the air are anti-Islamic [or] Islam-a-phobic,” he states. “So there’s been quite a large and loud clamor among those people.”

Zeppernick remarks that if proponents of Al Jazeera English really wish to watch the network, they can do so on the Internet or through a satellite provider — but not with public funds.

The Al Jazeera network gained notoriety in America by broadcasting post-9/11 videos of Osama bin Laden and other terrorist leaders. The parent network is also considered by many U.S. officials to display an anti-American bias in its news coverage.”


857 posted on 06/26/2008 1:16:11 AM PDT by Cindy
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“Mugabe’s War”
By Jacob Laksin
FrontPageMagazine.com | Thursday, June 26, 2008

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Bearing the brunt of Mugabe’s vengeance are Zimbabwe’s rural provinces. Deemed a hotbed sedition and MDC support by Mugabe, they have been beset by the Zimbabwe African National Union–Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF), a combination of police, army veterans and other uniformed sadists who serve, in cold-blooded fashion, as Mugabe’s henchmen.

Instances of ZANU-PF brutality are too many to enumerate, but a few stand out for their sheer depravity. In one case, a man was beaten and castrated with barbed wire, dying later that day in a what Human Rights Watch describes as a “leaning position because he couldn’t lie on his stomach due to his injuries.” The victim’s crime? He had been listening to the March 29 election results on a Voice of America radio program. In another village, a 76-year old woman was dragged before a crowd and beaten with logs until residents confessed to being MDC supporters. Whether they were in fact sympathetic to the MDC is irrelevant; fear, not facts, is the business of Mugabe’s terror squads.

So, too, with the “reeducation camps” that have sprung up across Zimbabwe. Intended to instill fear and root out alleged traitors, the camps are a testament to Mugabe’s murderous paranoia.”


858 posted on 06/26/2008 1:41:08 AM PDT by Cindy
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