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To: Noel de Leon who wrote (158946)	3/10/2005 5:56:48 PM
From: Win Smith	Respond to of 281500

Nadine flogs Eason Jordan a lot, I guess he's another emblematic "liberal" or "leftist" scarecrow or something. I did recently stumble on this particular tidbit about attacking journalists, though: As well as putting bin Laden on the air, Al Jazeera reported from the receiving end of the Afghan war: the civilian casualties, the houses and lives destroyed. Finally, as the Northern Alliance forces advanced, the Jazeera offices in Kabul were obliterated by an American 500-pound bomb. After initial denials, a Pentagon spokesman admitted that Al Jazeera had been targeted as an alleged locus of Qaeda activity. General Tommy Franks said that a bin Laden deputy, Muhammad Atef, was among the casualties in the attack. (He was killed again a few weeks later, in a completely separate incident.) ( URL and full review in Message 21110331 ) That one seems fairly clear.

To: Noel de Leon who wrote (158946)	3/10/2005 6:38:18 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Eason Jordan is the now ex-head of CNN News, who thought it was cute to go on at Davos about how the US military was targeting journalists in Iraq. Barney Frank and Chris Dodd (have you heard of them?) were on the same panel and challenged him for evidence, promising that the Congress would look into it, but he had none to offer. A businessman in the audience blogged the incident and the ensuring storm of unfavorable publicity led to Jordan's resignation a couple of weeks later. Personally, I think he should have resigned in 2003, after he confessed how much lying CNN had done on behalf of Saddam Hussein to keep its access in Baghdad.