“On November 13, a hectic day when Kabul fell to the Northern Alliance and there were celebrations in the streets of the city, a U.S. missile obliterated Al-Jazeera’s office,� Suskind wrote in the book, which was released yesterday. “Inside the CIA and White House there was satisfaction that a message had been sent to Al-Jazeera.�
Questioned yesterday by CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer, Suskind said: “My sources are clear that that was done on purpose, precisely to send a message to Al-Jazeera, and essentially a message was sent. …There was great anger at Al-Jazeera at this point.â€� Suskind said U.S. officials considered Al-Jazeera a mouthpiece for al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.
Asked who made the decision to target the station, Suskind told Blitzer that because of “sourcing issues� he couldn’t say. “You don’t put everything you know in a book like this. But I’ll tell you emphatically it was a deliberate act by the U.S.� CNN reported last night that Pentagon officials speaking on background denied that the attack was intentional and said it was the first that they had heard about it.
Al-Jazeera Kabul Correspondent then, Tayseer 3allouni, managed to escape unharmed, only to come under US attack again, as an airstrike targeted the channel’s Baghdad Bureau on 8 April 2003, killing 3allouni’s Jordanian colleague, Tareq Ayoub.
3allouni is currently incarcerated in Spain on terror charges, following an unjust trial, condemned by several rights watchdogs.
The Point Zero Zero Zero Zero Zero One Percent Doctrine …
What kind of a message does it send to terrorists that we are ceding them an entire percentage point? I would be able to sleep at night much better if Cheney had proposed, say, a Point Zero Zero Zero Zero Zero One Percent Doctrine. …
Bad Spain bad. The unjust trial is a disgrace for spanish law (ironically the same law that released a man charged over the madrid!!) . I believe Spain threw Allouni in prison because of their evil alliance with the neo-cons in the US. I mean doesn’t Spain have troops in Iraq and their prime minister is right wing, conservative, and pro-America?!!
See, Spain left all the sleeper terrorists on its soil, released a man charged over the Madrid bombings, and imprisoned an al jazeera journalist instead. Umm, interesting.