Al Jazeera Staff have set up a Blog - called "Don't Bomb Us"

http://dontbomb.blogspot.com/

It's their reaction to the memo, which the British Government is trying to gag, which apparently has GWB threatening to bomb Al Jazeera in Qatar.

Any Bloggers or Web Site owners out there might also be interested in displaying

on their site and pledging to publish the memo if it ever becomes available, as a show of support for Al Jazeera and press freedom in general. All the details, including the codes, are on their site.

More details, including a list of sites already signed up, at http://www.blairwatch.co.uk/node/603

like Chavez doing his pre-empting .."You better not invade us!" ..tactics.

"bad journalists" in the Al Jazeera facility...... really. :)

...but the Commander in Chief is stupid, stupid, stupid...!!!

on edit: Therein lies the rub.

tragic losses. It is a blessing and a grace! Al Jazeera is one of the few established news organizations that is telling it like it is in Iraq. The plain and simple--and awul--truth. As objective as possible, under the circumstances. They put US corporate news monopolies to shame.

There is a good documentary about them, "Control Room," available from Netflix.

The toll on journalists in Iraq (I think it stands at about 30) is dreadful, and criminal. Can the world ever forgive us for our inability to control our government?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=103&topic_id=175857

Yesterday's Guardian blog article: http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/news/archives/2005/11/30/aljazeera_staff_please_dont_bomb_us.html

:(

More war crimes....

<snip>
Al-Jazeera's offices in Kabul and Baghdad were bombed; we were told at the time that both bombings were mistakes. We pushed for an official investigation, but thus far have received neither the findings of any investigation nor any official apology. The al-Jazeera cameraman Sami al-Hajj was arrested in Afghanistan and has for the past four years been detained in Guantánamo. We have repeatedly asked for an explanation, but none has been given to us.

For example, from this page: Blame it on media?, 1st Comment, by/quoting Linda S. Heard:



<snip>

When during the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan Al Jazeera's Kabul office was bombed by an American 'smart bomb', Matt Wells of the Guardian asked "did the US mean to hit the Kabul offices of Al Jazeera TV? Some journalists are convinced it was targeted for being on the 'wrong side'.

And in April 2003 when the Iraq was in full flush, Al Jazeera's Baghdad office was hit by a US missile, killing cameraman Tariq Ayoubi and wounding Zuhair Al-Iraqi.

Then, the network's chief editor said: "Witnesses in the area saw the plane fly over twice before dropping the bombs. Our office is in a residential area and even the Pentagon knows its location."

Indeed, after the Kabul incident, Al Jazeera had made certain to pass on the coordinates of its Iraqi HQ. Moreover, on that same day the Baghdad office of Abu Dhabi television was also hit.

It's also interesting to note that prior to the invasion of Iraq former BBC war correspondent Kate Adie one of the most respected journalists in her field - told Irish Radio that the Pentagon had threatened to fire on the satellite uplink positions of independent journalists in Iraq.

Adie also said that when she questioned a Senior Pentagon office concerning the consequences of this action, he replied, "Who cares? They've been warned".

Moreover, the former CEO of CNN Eason Jordan was forced to resign his post early this year for telling a panel at the Davos Economic Forum that he knew of 12 journalists who had been killed by coalition forces in Iraq.

Like his CNN colleagues April Oliver and Peter Arnett, as well as CBC's former producer Mary Mapes, Jordan had crossed the line by seemingly criticizing the US military, and had to go.

</snip> - Full article: http://www.counterpunch.org/heard11232005.html

Or so I would suppose, but that would be too subtle for the Chimp and company.