The War on Al Jazeera

(snip) On April 11 senior military spokesperson Mark Kimmitt declared, "The stations that are showing Americans intentionally killing women and children are not legitimate news sources. That is propaganda, and that is lies." On April 15 Donald Rumsfeld echoed those remarks in distinctly undiplomatic terms, calling Al Jazeera's reporting "vicious, inaccurate and inexcusable.... It's disgraceful what that station is doing." It was the very next day, according to the Daily Mirror, that Bush told Blair of his plan. "He made clear he wanted to bomb al-Jazeera in Qatar and elsewhere," a source told the Mirror. "There's no doubt what Bush wanted to do--and no doubt Blair didn't want him to do it."


http://www.thenation.com/doc/20051219/scahill

Thanks for posting this.

And here I thought they had a democracy and a democracy had free press. Eh. What do I know? Anybody here who hasn't seen "Control Room" should definitely.

the information is so shocking, I could feel my brain shutting down. Then, I watched it again and again because it is so packed.

Of course Al jazeera is with the terrorists. Their name starts with "Al" :sarcasm:

Nice try, Rummy. Turns out they were telling the truth, you were lying your @ss off, and IT'S ALL ON TAPE.

Good description of CNN

Get this smoking gun and watch the fireworks really fly...

but we are willing to publish it... as are a number of other bloggers in the UK. (chris floyd lives in Oxford.)

http://chris-floyd.com/



We're Prepared To Pay The Price Of Freedom, Are You?

http://www.blairwatch.co.uk/node/603

by the al-Jazeerah crew who were caught by surprise in the city wen the shit first hit the fan on or about April 8th and 9th 2004.

They just filmed what they saw with their on eyes. Their material was confirmed by verbal eye-witnesses.

They were soon evacuated, except for a few members of the crew who remained behind, and continued reporting, since al-Falluja was their home town.

So, Bush and the Pentagon simply wanted to prevent the real story getting out, period.

on fallujah.

The Italian RAI video of course. But a lot of other unpublished work after the sacking of the city in late 2004.

http://chris-floyd.com/fallujah/

right here ...