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2006-08-24 Afghanistan

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Posted by Fred 2006-08-24 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Lemme see. It's from al jiz...which is right up there with reuters, the NYT and the hezbollah daily news for integrity and truthfulness.

Posted by anymouse">anymouse 2006-08-24 01:39|| 2006-08-24 01:39|| Front Page Top

#2 Ummm, I think in a world of loosers, Al Jizz is at the front of the pack. NYT and LAT get extra points for being fifth columnists, however.

Posted by Bobby 2006-08-24 06:19|| 2006-08-24 06:19|| Front Page Top

#3 Al Jazeera gets extra points for having been spun off from the BBC a few years ago (I don't remember why the BBC decided to do that -- the local people getting a bit uppity, perhaps? Or cashing in on the spin-off craze?).

Posted by trailing wife 2006-08-24 07:39|| 2006-08-24 07:39|| Front Page Top

#4 Oh, but moose-limb words must be taken as of equivalent worth as anyone else's, as the multiculturalist leftard will insist.

Posted by Duh! 2006-08-24 09:11|| 2006-08-24 09:11|| Front Page Top

#5 "What's that under your arm, Ahmed? Kinda looks like an RPG."

"Oh, no sir! This is a portable automatic vine dresser!"

Posted by mcsegeek1 2006-08-24 09:22|| 2006-08-24 09:22|| Front Page Top

#6 "Oh, but moose-limb words must be taken as of equivalent worth as anyone else's, as the multiculturalist leftard will insist."

If locals who I suspected of sympathy with an antigovernment terrorist force were claiming that folks NATO siad were fighters were really civilians, id be skeptical of the locals, whether said locals were muslims, Serbian Orthodox, Reconstructionist Jews, or Missouri Synod Lutherans.

Posted by liberalhawk 2006-08-24 09:43|| 2006-08-24 09:43|| Front Page Top

#7 7. TW

If I understand correctly Al Jizz was started with the backing of the govt of Qatar. The connection with the BBC, IIUC (and Im really foggy about this) is that a lot of the journalists came from the BBC Arabic service - just looking for better opportunities at a startup.

Ive never heard that BBC spun off anything.

Posted by liberalhawk 2006-08-24 09:46|| 2006-08-24 09:46|| Front Page Top

#8 Al Jazeera claims to be the only politically independent television station in the Middle East. It now rivals the BBC in worldwide audiences with an estimated 50 million viewers. Al Jazeera was started with a US$150 million grant from the emir of Qatar. It aimed to become self-sufficient through advertising by 2001, but when this failed to occur, the emir agreed to continue subsidizing it on a year-by-year basis (US$30 million in 2004,[1] according to Arnaud de Borchgrave). Other major sources of income include advertising, cable subscription fees, broadcasting deals with other companies, and sale of footage (according to Pravda,[2] "Al Jazeera received $20,000 per minute for Bin Laden's speech".) In 2000, advertising accounted for 40% of the station's revenue.[3]

The channel began broadcasting in late 1996. In April of that year, BBC World Service's Arabic language TV station, faced with censorship demands by the Saudi Arabian government, had shut down after two years of operation. Many former BBC World Service staff members joined Al Jazeera.

In the beginning, Al Jazeera tried to increase its viewership by means of presenting controversial views regarding the governments of many Gulf states, including Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain and Qatar; Syria's relationship with Lebanon; and the Egyptian judiciary. Its well-presented documentary on the Lebanese Civil War in 2000-2001 gave its viewer ratings a boost. However, it wasn't until late 2001 that Al Jazeera achieved worldwide popularity when it broadcast video statements by al-Qaeda leaders.

In response to Al Jazeera, a group of Saudi investors created Al Arabiya in the first quarter of 2003.

Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2006-08-24 11:19|| 2006-08-24 11:19|| Front Page Top

#9 they're picking white grapes now....

Posted by Frank G 2006-08-24 11:21|| 2006-08-24 11:21|| Front Page Top

#10 Thank you, GolfBravoUSMC. I sit corrected. ;-)

Posted by trailing wife 2006-08-24 11:38|| 2006-08-24 11:38|| Front Page Top

#11 "Grape pickers"?
Add it to the list...

Posted by tu3031 2006-08-24 11:44|| 2006-08-24 11:44|| Front Page Top

#12 Grape Pickers eh?

Then they must have been hit with grapeshot right?

Posted by CrazyFool 2006-08-24 11:53|| 2006-08-24 11:53|| Front Page Top

#13 Last night on "CNN Presents," there was documentary footage showing Binny's evolving position on the killing of American innocents.

He started out by insisting that American civies were not the intended target but that Al-Qaeda could not guarantee their safety in the Mid-East.

Years later, Binny Boy changed his tune and insisted that there was no such thing as innocent Americans.

Now he calls for 10 million American dead to settle the score.

Okay jerk, since no American innocents exist, we're returning the favor in the same coin, only a bigger and much heavier coin.

Remember this Talibunny, Hezbos, and Qaeda-creeps: You can pester us, annoy and occasionally disrupt our travel plans and such. We on the other hand are capable of ending your civilization in a 30-minute span on a given day.

A pair of Tridents can do the job.

Posted by Lancasters Over Dresden 2006-08-24 12:19|| http://www.michaelcalderonscall.com/HomePage.asp]">[http://www.michaelcalderonscall.com/HomePage.asp] 2006-08-24 12:19|| Front Page Top

#14 Lancasters Over Dresden, I object to using the term "civilization" in the same paragraph and context with Talibunny, Hezbos, and Qaeda-creeps, etc. Thx!

Posted by twobyfour 2006-08-24 17:22|| 2006-08-24 17:22|| Front Page Top

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