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...Qaeda spokesman Sulaiman Abu Ghaith appeared on Qatar's Al Jazeera network Tuesday congratulating the men who hijacked the four planes involved in the September 11th attacks, and promising a massive holy war against the U.S. "America must know that the storm of airplanes will not stop and there are thousands of young people who look forward to death like the Americans look forward to life," he said. Concerned that the terrorist organization might have used the broadcast to transmit "a message" to waiting terrorist cells, Secretary of State Colin Powell assigned analysts to examine every aspect of the transmission...
...another way: "I save my advice for the President." Cheney has been working hard to help Bush and Secretary of State Colin Powell weave together a global alliance against terrorism. His past experience is paying dividends. Last week he spoke with Sheik Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani of Qatar, an old friend from his travels building the Gulf War coalition 10 years ago. Cheney traded family updates, made a few inside jokes and then discussed how Qatar could lend the U.S. a hand...
...State Department is certainly allowed to request that Qatar rein in its reporting," says Belle Adler, a journalism professor at Northeastern University in Boston. "The problem is when and if the U.S. government instigates legal proceeding against another country's journalists, doing things like subpoenaing reporters, revoking licenses, or throwing people in jail. We haven't seen that happen here, and I very much doubt it will." Even though the Qataris haven't exactly agreed to acquiesce...
...Founded in 1996 by Qatar's Emir Hamad bin Khalifa, the fledgling news channel quickly became famous among locals, and infamous among the regimes of the Gulf States, many of which went to great lengths (including turning off electricity to an entire country) to prevent their subjects being exposed to Al-Jazeera's "sensationalist" programming...
...defiant. "Whenever we hear from our friends (on the topic of Al-Jazeera), we consider this as a friendly advice and we listen to the friends and their advice," he told reporters in Washington on Wednesday. "But the issue here is the program that has been put together in Qatar. Qatar is embarking on? a parliamentary life with a democracy, which dictates that freedom of the press should be granted, and that press should enjoy credibility...