Good Catch Kevin. We are going to need the education of the Muslim world if we are ever going to get 9/11 Truth and the results we are looking for. Glad to hear Al Jazeera isn't scared of it.

I wonder if PCR knew this...? ;-)

Wiki aljazeera.com: As of 2006, Aljazeera.com wrote on their About page: "Important note: Aljazeera Publishing and Aljazeera.com are not associated with any of the below organisations:
1. Al Jazeera Newspaper, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia whose website is al-jazirah.com
2. Al Jazeera Satellite Channel whose website is aljazeera.net.
3. Al Jazeera Information Centre who website is aljazeerah.info
Aljazeera Publishing disassociates itself from the views, opinions and broadcasts of these titles."

They are separate organizations, have been at odds with one another. Al-Jazeera Publishing is based in London. Web searches for "aljazeera.com" bring up many hits from confused people. Helmi Noman wrote in June of 2005 ("Web Credibility: When links lie"), "BBC is one of the sites that link to aljazeera.com instead of english.aljazeera.net." But the mistake was BBC's and the Internet seniority belongs to Al Jazeera Publishing -- who acquired the domain in 1996 before Al-Jazeera-TV existed. The TV conglomerate went after the domain in 2005 and though WIPO noted some deliberate mimic behavior they lost the challenge, angering the WIPO a bit in the process.

The most egregious charge against Al-Jazeera Television was leveled by Sec'y Donald Rumsfeld in September 2004, when he alleged that Al-Jazeera had shown a beheading (they never have). Rumsfeld said: "If anyone lived in the Middle East and watched a network like the Aljazeera day after day after day, even if he was an American, he would start waking up and asking what's wrong. But America is not wrong. It's the people who are going on television chopping off people's heads, that is wrong," ... A case of sloopy intel and/or Bush Administration disinfo... Jazeera replied that beheading videos were readily available on the internet and had made it onto other television networks. "And because of Aljazeera's reputation, people mistakenly attribute the pictures to us."

Though there is an allusion on 24-May-2004 to an animated GIF of questionable taste, I do not see evidence that aljazeera.com had ever hosted such a video. But in certain angles, especially treatment of Israel and the scope of public comments, the aljazeera.com site is not always politically 'in sync' with AJTV.

NO MENTION of Al-Jazeera Television would be complete without noting the hit on Al-Jazeera's facilities on 08-Apr-2003 and the death of Tariq Ayoub... as is told in their RIVERTING 2004 documentary on Iraq Control Room (watch it now) ... and the plight of Sami Al Hajj who was abducted by the United States while on his way to work in Afghanistan as a cameraman for Al Jazeera with legitimate visa -- he is currently the only journalist held in Guantanamo Bay Facility. I've read the charges... and as an American citizen IT IS MY FIRM conviction that Al-Hajj is being held as a POLITICAL HOSTAGE by the United States -- ostensibly, to place the Al-Jazeera Television Network in a crisis of conscience.

On January 11th -- we must call for the release of Sami Mohy El Din Muhammed Al Hajj ... and an end to the madness that is Guantanamo.

I haven't really kept up with al-Jazeera -- used to watch its Arabic news broadcasts till about 2004. So I didn't realize there were so many knock-offs. I thought this was the al-Jazeera English outfit that Yvonne Ridley used to work for, which is part of the main operation in Qatar.

After catching up on things, I realize that this blog entry was misleading not only in confusing the various al-Jazeeras, but in painting an overly rosy picture of the main (Qatari) al-Jazeera operation. In fact it appears that (the original) al-Jazeera has gone downhill during the past few years. They are now reporting in a less sympathetic way on the resistance in Iraq; they are less fair and balanced in their reporting on Iran, a perceived danger to al-Jazeera's owner, the Emir of Qatar; and they generally shy away from reporting on the 9/11 truth movement (back in 2003 they invited Thierry Meyssan on their most popular program). Last year I exchanged a few emails with an al-Jazeera journalist, who initially expressed interest in reporting on me and the 9/11 truth movement, then said it was impossible under current management.

Last night I watched the al-Jazeera English coverage of the New Hampshire primary, and there was no mention whatsoever of Ron Paul. That may be because Ron Paul wants to close all foreign US military bases, including the huge base in Qatar.

The Emir of Qatar is basically a US puppet. In the past, whenever al-Jazeera offended Bush the Emir would be summoned to DC and reprimanded. There has always been a US-imposed line that the Emir wouldn't let al-Jazeera cross, and right now it looks like the Emir has his stable of journalists on a tight rein.

So I apologize for the misleading post.