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Before we heard that Al Gore's Current TV had rejected Glenn Beck's The Blaze TV as a buyer for, as Beck put it, "legacy" reasons and selected Al Jazeera as its white knight instead, Fjordman passed along this December 25 Deutche Welle interview with Aktham Suliman, Al Jazeera's former Berlin correspondent. Suliman argues that Al Jazeera's coverage is a policy instrument of its owners the Qataris, who, as he puts it, "tend toward the Muslim Brotherhood." Saudi-investor-funded Al Arabiya TV, on the other hand, is more Salafist. Big difference? Hah -- not when it comes to extending sharia. "Generally speaking,...

Why is Egypt airing insurgent TV from Iraq? csmonitor.com http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0117/p01s03-wome.htmlWhy is Egypt airing insurgent TV from Iraq? Al Zawraa's broadcasting of Sunni attacks on American soldiers highlights sectarian politics. By Sarah Gauch Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor CAIRO - Al Zawraa television station, the face of Iraq's Sunni insurgency, shows roadside bombs blowing up American tanks, dead and bloody Iraqi children, and insurgent snipers taking aim and firing. And all this blatant anti-Americanism is broadcasting 24/7 on an Egyptian government-controlled satellite provider from one of Washington's closest allies. Even though Iraq and the US have asked Egypt to pull...

It turns out that according to the blog administrator at Baghdad Dweller that this message originated from mail.aljazeera.net. I am a sunni and a patriot to Iraq. I am a sunni who has not slept with the occupier or handed my sister over to the US soldiers who already came down my mother’s throat. I am a sunni who chose not vote because of the evil conspiracy against me. A conspiracy against me BECAUSE I am Iraqi. I am a sunni and I spit on you all. I spit on those Iraqis who believe themselves patriots to have voted. Do...