Al Jazeera Interview

This morning (Feb 3, 2006) Amy Goodman on Democracy Now broadcast her third program from Al Jazeera Hq in Doha, Qatar. It consisted mostly of an interview with the Managing Director of Al Jazeera, and that consisted largely of a report on the Downing St Memo--which, you will remember, was about Bush and Tony Blair manipulating CIA info to let them invade Iraq. But what they focused on this morning was Bush wanting to bomb Al Jazeera Hq because he didn't like their reporting, and Colin Powell and Blair talking him out of it. There was a lot more, much about a newspaper in London reporting this, the way I understood it, and then a whole lot of bloggers getting it on the Internet. Bush wanted to sue for violation of the Security Secrecy Act (I'm not sure this title is right) but not doing it because then the whole story would come out. I didn't get the name of the Managing Director of Al Jazeera, nor could I understand all he said although his English is excellent. He was very persuasive, very professional.
In any case, I heartily recommend that one and all listen to this broadcast/telecast. It can be heard/seen on both radio and TV, depending on where you are. I get it on KGNU Radio, 1390FM in Denver. I intend to listen to it again this afternoon when it's repeated, at 4:30pm.
All three of Amy Goodman's programs from Al Jazeera have been just outstanding. You should catch all of them. Al Jazeera came off sounding quite professional and believable. They spend, they said, at least 5 hours broadcasting Bush's stuff compared with Osama bin Laden's.