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To: Thomas M. who wrote (6877)	10/22/2001 8:41:08 PM
From: maceng2	Respond to of 281500

Thomas, Always glad to see your interest. It's my suspicion that these guys are getting the bug for some real reporting.. Al-Jazeera is also "the only international news organization to maintain reporters in the Taliban-controlled part of Afghanistan" (Wall Street Journal). Among other examples, it was responsible for the exclusive filming of the destruction of Buddhist statues that rightly infuriated the world. don't see any problems here.

To: Thomas M. who wrote (6877)	10/22/2001 10:29:04 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Washington has been attempting to restrain free press in the Arab world for years: This is too funny. How can you restrain what doesn't exist? Or is big, bad Washington ORDERING Egypt, Syria, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia to control their presses? Al-Jazeera may lack government censorship, but so does the National Enquirer -- being free doesn't make it responsible, and it's not. The US's request to "tone it down" might have been heavy-handed, but it's scarcely censorship -- Al Jazeera was perfectly free to ignore the suggestion, and it did.