Word: arabiya
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...talk either duplicitous or fatuous. "Liberate Iraq? Rubbish," said a prominent Jordanian businessman. "You occupy Iraq for the strategic and economic benefits. You are building the largest embassy in the world in Baghdad. Halliburton and Bechtel are running everything, at enormous profits. And then I watch Bush on Al-Arabiya and all I see is his sense of moral superiority. He brings democracy and freedom to the barbarians. But who are the barbarians? Even before the Abu Ghraib pictures, we saw male soldiers searching Iraqi women and humiliating Iraqi men by forcing their heads to the ground...
...captors. A second video, sent to al-Jazeera the next day but never aired, recorded an execution: one of the four hostages, Fabrizio Quattrocchi, shouted, "I'll show you how an Italian dies," just before he was shot through the neck. And the third tape, sent to the al-Arabiya network in Dubai and broadcast in Italy last Monday, preyed on the nation's hopes and fears in a cruel, subtle way. It showed the three survivors, Salvatore Stefio, Umberto Cupertino and Maurizio Agliana, perched on a couch in what looked like a living room. They had been dressed...
...reconciliation and want war, we are ready. For those who want reconciliation, we have given them a chance. Stop shedding our blood so as to preserve your blood." Anonymous speaker said to be OSAMA BIN LADEN, on an audiotape aired by the Arabic TV stations al-Jazeera and al-Arabiya, offering European countries, but not the U.S., a truce...
...France you're free to show yourself but not to dress modestly." AYMAN AL-ZAWAHIRI, Osama bin Laden's top lieutenant, on an audiotape broadcast on the Arabic television channel al-Arabiya, condemning France for imposing a ban on head scarves in schools...
...anti-Soviet jihad later became the organizational and political core of al-Qaeda. Now, the movement is hoping to repeat the experience, albeit under more trying circumstances - this time, the volunteers won't have the support of the CIA and the Saudis, or staging areas in Pakistan. Al-Arabiya TV on Monday broadcast an audio tape from an al-Qaeda leader urging supporters to make their way to Iraq to fight the occupation forces, and after that to overthrow the Saudi regime. And U.S. forces have found evidence that a number of radical Islamists from all over the Arab world...