Sunday, February 05, 2006

More on Al Jazeera Interview

Someone--surely not you, dear computer--doesn't want me to do this. I wrote a good careful one yesterday and was told to republish it 10 minutes later, then more ten minutes later, etc.etc. until I gave up. So it's gone.
What I was doing was correcting and adding to the one from the day before. The name of the Managing Director of Al Jazeera is Waddah Hanfar. The correct title of what I called the Security Secrecy Act is the Official Secrets Act; it's a UK document.
Waddah Hanfar was, as noted before, very impressive--knowledgeable, very fair, very professional. He said a former reporter for Al Jazeera has been held at Guantanamo for more than 3 years, without charge, and another reporter was convicted in Spain and sentenced to 7 years. All of the reporters speak English. And they have no hatred of the US, as alleged. The media could bridge the gaps.
He also said that Al Jazeera had reported live from Fallujah, and that made Bush very angry. They were the only news media there. Rumsfeld said repeatedly that they were telling lies.
We'll see if I can publish this. All for now.

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