Word: qatar
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...Baghdad the day the tape was shown, and some of the men in the swarming crowds wore sweaters or leather jackets. But the temperature had been in the 60s the week before. In the end, U.S. intelligence analysts seemed to agree that Saddam was alive. Qatar-based al-Jazeera TV, which aired the tape across the Middle East, called the appearance a brave move by Saddam to lift Iraqi morale...
...nearby helicopter, Lynch squeezed the hand of an Army Ranger and said, "Don't let anyone leave me." All the while, planes outfitted with special communications gear circled overhead, allowing a video feed of the events to be broadcast to the military's top brass in Qatar, who were able to watch the rescue in real time...
...camps to see the same war differently. But in 1991, Western, Arab and Muslim audiences used their rooting interests to filter the same source: American TV. This time, Arab audiences and Muslims outside the Middle East have homegrown TV networks to reflect their perspectives and, sometimes, bias--Qatar's widely known al-Jazeera, available on some U.S. satellite and cable systems; Al Arabia; Abu Dhabi TV; and more. (You probably watch them too--American TV uses rebroadcast deals to pick up selected footage.) Arabs and Muslims distrustful of Western media--like Turkish students and professors who burned a TV last...
Still, the coalition's battle plan is adapting to the new reality on the ground. Officials at the Pentagon and at Central Command field headquarters in Qatar, were considering slowing the pace of the ground war. The initial U.S. strategy was to bypass most cities in southern Iraq and rush ground forces to Baghdad within days of the war's start; military officials believe that once U.S. forces crush the Republican Guard and Special Republican Guard forces protecting the city, Saddam's hold on power will crumble. But the decision to leave the southern cities unsecured has proved costly...
...there are some fierce battles going on," says a senior Administration official. "It's steeling the public." While Iraqi officials gloated that the invaders did not have the stomach to bear the casualties inflicted on their forces, a different phenomenon unfolded in the war rooms in Washington, London and Qatar and in the coalition foxholes and camps scattered across the Iraqi desert; the grit of battle and the prospect of losses to come seemed to produce even more clear-eyed determination among the military leaders to finish the job. After a ceremony for fallen servicemen at his headquarters in Doha...