My guess is that it’s the Jordanian media mouthpiece, funded on a shoestring budget, relative to Qatari-government-funded al Jazeera. I’d think of it as the moderate alternative to (all jihad all the time) al Jazeera. From Wikipedia:
Al Bawaba is a news, blogging and media website[1] headquartered in Amman, Jordan with an office in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Al Bawaba publishes news stories related to the Middle East. It has separate English and Arabic sections.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Bawaba