Al-Jazeera Hearts Terrorists
The shocking claim rears its head again. MEMRI cites Diana Muqallid at London’s Al-Sharq al-Awsat:
On the fourth day of the battles around the Nahr Al-Bared refugee camp in northern Lebanon, the Al-Jazeera network opened its evening news with a preface, in which the announcer said that the story that was about to be broadcast included exclusive photos from inside the Palestinian refugee camp showing the scope of the killing and the extent of the ‘human suffering’ of the camp residents.
The footage that followed showed Fath Al-Islam fighters in their positions, firing at targets that clearly belonged to the Lebanese army. The footage showed not one sight reflecting the suffering of the Palestinian residents; the focus was on the armed fighters, who repeated over and over… statements such as ’satanic tyrants’ and ‘infidels,’ as they exchanged information on the positions of their fighting ‘brothers.’
Yet again, Al-Jazeera has not hesitated to play the role it played in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Palestine – that of official spokesman and activist for fundamentalist groups. It seems obvious that the Fath Al-Islam fighters were dealing with a ‘friendly’ camera, not with a journalistic camera. [This friendly coverage of Fath Al-Islam] quickly created a connection between [Fath Al-Islam] – which accuses [others] of heresy and regularly carries out massacres and indiscriminate killing, and whose members blow themselves up – and the [Al-Jazeera] channel, which from its outset has ignited Islamic populism and whose influence is growing…
[Al-Jazeera] did not mention the fact that [this] group had slaughtered [Lebanese] soldiers in their sleep. [But] the most important point is that the [special] news flashes and news headlines about the ongoing shelling [of the refugee camp] by the [Lebanese] army never referred to the ongoing entrenchment of the Fath Al-Islam fighters among the residents, and to their shelling of aid and rescue convoys.
The rest here.
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Posted by Jules Crittenden at 9:56 am on Monday, June 11, 2007
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June 11th, 2007 at 1:30 pm
It must be very annoying, though, not to have any Jews around to blame.
June 11th, 2007 at 2:42 pm
If we were fighting a real war, that propaganda abortion would have been taken out a long time ago, right after they played the first message from bin Laden, or showed the beheading of a Westerner. At the very least, our own media wouldn’t repeat the propaganda as if it were actual news. As it is, it is rather like Ed Marrow treating Lord Haw Haw as a serious journalist.