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Politics : America Under Siege: The End of Innocence -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ann Corrigan who wrote (10442)	11/13/2001 10:49:06 PM
From: lorne	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 27668

Hi Ann. A bit more on al- jezeera. Al-Jazeera TV knocked out of action in Afghanistan DOHA: Al-Jazeera television, which found fame and controversy with exclusive reports from behind Taliban lines, went off the air from Afghanistan on Tuesday after its two correspondents disappeared. First the Qatar-based satellite channel said its Kabul office had been put out of action by Afghan shells, which were later said to be a US missile. "US aircraft bombed the Al-Jazeera offices in Kabul during the night," the station announced. Al-Jazeera staff in the capital, which fell to Northern Alliance opposition forces at dawn, had not been wounded, but they could no longer be contacted, according to a news bulletin. Then the correspondent in Kandahar, southern stronghold of the Taliban militia, said he had given his last broadcast and was getting out, editorial staff told AFP. Yussef Al-Shuli gave his last report from Kandahar in the middle of the day," one editor told AFP, asking not to be named. "He's packed his bags and gone." His flight gave some credence to reports that Kandahar too had fell as opposition forces swept through the country. The channel gave no details about the extent of the damage to the Kabul bureau, but did say the home of one employee had also been hit. Al-Jazeera first said the bureau had been hit by shells and put out of action when the Afghan opposition forces entered the capital. "Shells fell on the Al-Jazeera bureau in Kabul, but there were no casualties," said al-Shuli said, quoting his colleagues in Kabul. He added that foreign journalists in Kabul had been confined to a hotel in the capital. Al-Jazeera Kabul correspondent Taysir Alluni has become a celebrity in the Arab world with his exclusive reports from Taliban-held territory since the launch of the US-led war on Afghanistan on October 7. jang-group.com