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 Re: تم تعطيل موقع الجزيرة على الانترنت (Re: MASSOUB)
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أرجو أن تجد من بين المرفق ما يبدد حيرة سؤالك
Al-Jazeera calls on U.S. to ensure free press
(Adds Powell on al-Jazeera, paragraphs 6-
By Merissa Marr, European Media Correspondent
LONDON, March 26 (Reuters) - Banned on Wall Street and
wiped off the Internet, Arab news channel al-Jazeera defended
its controversial coverage of the Iraq war on Wednesday and
demanded the United States come to its aid in the name of a
free press.
Al-Jazeera, which angered Washington by showing footage of
dead and captured American soldiers, voiced concern after two
of its reporters were banned from the New York Stock Exchange
and its Web sites were hacked.
The stock exchange stopped al-Jazeera broadcasts, saying
credentials were only for networks that provided "responsible"
coverage. Al-Jazeera was also denied a request to broadcast
live from New York's Nasdaq exchange.
"There has to be a national effort to protect the freedom
of the press even more," al-Jazeera spokesman Jihad Ballout
said. "We appeal to authorities to pay attention to this."
But in Washington, U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell
criticized al-Jazeera's coverage of the U.S. invasion of Iraq.
"Al-Jazeera has an editorial line and a way of presenting
news that appeals to the Arab public. They watch it and they
magnify the minor successes of the (Iraqi) regime. They tend to
portray our efforts in a negative light," Powell said in an
interview with National Public Radio, broadcast on Wednesday.
Powell did not comment on al-Jazeera's complaints, but
said he would wait to see what the channel reports "after we
have defeated this (Iraqi) regime."
"I think at that point the Arab public will realize that we
came in peace. We came as liberators, not conquerors," he
said.
Al-Jazeera has taken the Arab world by storm since its
launch in 1996, with its controversial reporting and brash,
Western style drawing an audience of more than 35 million.
After making its name in the Afghan war with exclusive
footage of Osama bin laden, the Qatar-based satellite channel
has also had success in Europe, with viewers doubling since the
start of the Iraq war.
But the CNN of the Arab world raised U.S. ire when on
Sunday it aired shaken U.S. prisoners of war and dead U.S.
soldiers with gaping bullet wounds, prompting the Pentagon to
issue an appeal to U.S. networks not to use the footage.
Al-Jazeera on Wednesday showed pictures of what it said
were two dead British soldiers and two British prisoners of
war.
EUROPEAN VIEWERS DOUBLE
In Europe, al-Jazeera said it had signed up more than four
million subscribers in the past week. But in the United States,
it has drawn little more than 100,000 subscribers.
"In Europe, we're naturally most popular in countries with
big Muslim populations like France. In Britain, we've also seen
a pick up in non-Arabic-speaking Muslims," Ballout said.
Viewers, who subscribe through local satellite operators,
are glued to the pictures even if they cannot understand the
words. There are no English-language subtitles.
Media pundits said the New York Stock Exchange decision
smacked of a dangerous opening salvo in a game of media
tit-for-tat which could see Western media's access cut off.
Iraq last week ordered CNN journalists to leave Baghdad.
"Clearly, it is a violation of press freedom," said Jeffrey
Chester, executive director of the Center for Digital
Democracy, a media watchdog group in Washington, D.C.
Al-Jazeera's new English-language Web site
(http://english.aljazeera.net, which went live on Monday, and
its Arabic-language site (http://www.aljazeera.net) were downed
by a hacker attack on Tuesday and Wednesday
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