{"id":1040,"date":"2006-06-21T21:38:18","date_gmt":"2006-06-21T21:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=1040"},"modified":"2006-06-21T21:38:18","modified_gmt":"2006-06-21T21:38:18","slug":"2006-6-21-al-jazeera-targeted-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=1040","title":{"rendered":"Al-Jazeera targeted?"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Committee to Protect Journalists has issued a statement<\/a> today expressing its concern over the new information–regarding the November 2001 bombing of Al-Jazeera office in Kabul– that accuses the US army of deliberately targeting the Arab satellite channel office. The information has come out in Ron Suskind\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s new book, The One Percent Doctrine<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153On 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\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s office,\u00e2\u20ac\ufffd Suskind wrote in the book, which was released yesterday. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Inside the CIA and White House there was satisfaction that a message had been sent to Al-Jazeera.\u00e2\u20ac\ufffd<\/em><\/p>\n

Questioned yesterday by CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer, Suskind said: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153My 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.\u00e2\u20ac\ufffd Suskind said U.S. officials considered Al-Jazeera a mouthpiece for al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.<\/em><\/p>\n

Asked who made the decision to target the station, Suskind told Blitzer that because of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153sourcing issues\u00e2\u20ac\ufffd he couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t say. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153You don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t put everything you know in a book like this. But I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll tell you emphatically it was a deliberate act by the U.S.\u00e2\u20ac\ufffd 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.<\/em><\/p>\n

Al-Jazeera Kabul Correspondent then, Tayseer 3allouni<\/a>, managed to escape unharmed, only to come under US attack again<\/a>, as an airstrike targeted the channel’s Baghdad Bureau on 8 April 2003, killing 3allouni’s Jordanian colleague, Tareq Ayoub.<\/p>\n

3allouni is currently incarcerated in Spain on terror charges, following an unjust trial<\/a>, condemned by several rights watchdogs.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Committee to Protect Journalists has issued a statement<\/a> today expressing its concern over the new information–regarding the November 2001 bombing of Al-Jazeera office in Kabul– that accuses the US army of deliberately targeting the Arab satellite channel office. The information has come out in Ron Suskind\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s new book, The One Percent Doctrine<\/a>.
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153On 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\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s office,\u00e2\u20ac\ufffd Suskind wrote in the book, which was released yesterday. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Inside the CIA and White House there was satisfaction that a message had been sent to Al-Jazeera.\u00e2\u20ac\ufffd<\/em>
\nQuestioned yesterday by CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer, Suskind said: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153My 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.\u00e2\u20ac\ufffd Suskind said U.S. officials considered Al-Jazeera a mouthpiece for al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.<\/em>
\nAsked who made the decision to target the station, Suskind told Blitzer that because of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153sourcing issues\u00e2\u20ac\ufffd he couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t say. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153You don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t put everything you know in a book like this. But I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll tell you emphatically it was a deliberate act by the U.S.\u00e2\u20ac\ufffd 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.<\/em>
\nAl-Jazeera Kabul Correspondent then, Tayseer 3allouni<\/a>, managed to escape unharmed, only to come under US attack again<\/a>, as an airstrike targeted the channel’s Baghdad Bureau on 8 April 2003, killing 3allouni’s Jordanian colleague, Tareq Ayoub.
\n3allouni is currently incarcerated in Spain on terror charges, following an unjust trial<\/a>, condemned by several rights watchdogs.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[60,92],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}