More on Al Jazeera Interview

I listened again to Amy Goodman's Democracy Now broadcast from Al Jazeera's Hq (Feb. 3, 2006) and can add some info. Waddah Khanfar is the name of the managing director. The name of the Act that Bush wanted to use to get back at whoever leaked or printed the Downing St. Memo (April 1, 2004) is the "Official Secrets Act" of the UK. It was either the Guardian or the Daly Mirror that printed the story initially; I heard reference to each at different times. No one in the US would carry it, but, as I mentioned yesterday, bloggers did on the Internet.
One thing that made the president so angry was that Al Jazeera was reporting live from Fallujah, the only news medium that did so. Rumsfeld repeatedly said that Al Jazeera repeated lies about the US and called the story about the Downing St. Memo outlandish but didn't deny it. Waddah Khanfar said that Al Jazeera has never compromised its independent reporting. All of its reporters speak English. They have no hatred for the US. But they are constantly attacked and are classified as enemies. One has been held at Guantanamo for more than three years without being charged. (His name sounded like Sommi Ohage.) Another has been convicted in Spain and sentenced to seven years.
Again, Waddah Khanfar impressed me as being progessional, very able, and very fair.
There must be much more info on the Internet but I haven't tried to access it.