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noamnety Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-19-04 07:38 PM
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Is Aljazeera covering the voting fraud?
I was checking the referrer logs on my site, and I saw a hit from aljazeera. It was from an email in their mail system, not a website. The only reason I can think of that they'd be on my site is looking at the Florida opscan vs. etouchscreen charts.

Is their email an open system like yahoo? If it was from mail.aljazeera.net does it mean it's someone working for the news station there?
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John Q. Citizen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-19-04 07:49 PM
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1. No idea, but perhaps you should send them the story....
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madison2000 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-19-04 08:00 PM
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2. no coverage of election fraud on al jazeera (yet)
Edited on Fri Nov-19-04 08:01 PM by madison2000
I don't know the answer to your question for sure, but here is my speculation:

I visit the English news site regularly to see how they are reporting on Iraq. I did a search in answer to your question about whether they have covered the voting fraud story and there were no stories on the election since November 4- so they haven't published anything on it.
http://english.aljazeera.net/HomePage

There is nowhere to sign up for an email account on the website. There could be something like that on the Arabic website.

It seems like I've heard somewhere that people in Iraq are pointing to our elections as reason that we are in no position to conduct their elections, but I can't remember where I saw it. There are plenty of messageboards where people discuss the middle east, in English and in Arabic, and the election fraud story shows up there. Like this one: http://middleeastinfo.org/

So - the story is making its way around the world for sure.
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noamnety Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-19-04 08:52 PM
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3. I don't know if I want to send them the story
Will I end up on the no-fly list? (not to be confused with am I already on the no-fly list).
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mom-mad-about-bush Donating Member (253 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-19-04 09:06 PM
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4. Is that really true......
I am flying on Monday....should I be worried?
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necso Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-19-04 09:10 PM
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5. I sure wouldn't send them anything.
Edited on Fri Nov-19-04 09:58 PM by necso
Besides, I harbor dark suspicions about them -- they have furnished a convenient conduit for questionable (and/or questionably timed) material on a number of occasions.
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madison2000 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-19-04 10:39 PM
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6. Its worth visiting the website occasionally
I wouldn't really want to get on their mailing list or anything. But when something like the last Bin Laden video comes out, I don't know where else to look for it.

The American media give you snippets of their choosing, out of context. If you go to the AJ website you can read the whole text yourself.

This is where a lot of the Arabic world gets their news so its of interest to me to see what propaganda they're getting, as opposed to the propaganda we're getting.
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r3verberate Donating Member (41 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-19-04 10:55 PM
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7. If your chart is a graphic ..
.. then it was probably cut/pasted into the body of someone's email, and sent to the person with an aljazeera webmail account. The referrer for a graphic is the webpage (which webmail is) that contains the graphic.
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