Posted on 09/14/2012 9:03:55 AM PDT by tcrlaf
6 Minutes Ago - Protesters set fire to the American School in the Tunisian capital on Friday, after hundreds of people incensed by a "made in the USA" film that demeans the Prophet Muhammad invaded the US embassy compound and clashed with riot police.
The school was closed on Friday.
Protesters had earlier set fire to trees in the US embassy compound.
"Obama, Obama, we are all Osama," the protesters chanted to the US president, referencing the slain al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.
20 Minutes Ago - Anti-Islam film protests Live Blog Anti-Islam film protests 7 minutes ago
Protesters set fire to the American School in the Tunisian capital on Friday, after hundreds of people incensed by a "made in the USA" film that demeans the Prophet Muhammad invaded the US embassy compound and clashed with riot police.
The school was closed on Friday.
Protesters had earlier set fire to trees in the US embassy compound.
"Obama, Obama, we are all Osama," the protesters chanted to the US president, referencing the slain al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. Anti-Islam film protests 20 minutes ago
Shots were fired at the American embassy in Tunisia on Friday.
The latest Al Jazeera report from capital, Tunis, shows the embassy has been set on fire.
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.aljazeera.com ...
You have a bizarre notion of what a news organization is.
Well, if I have a bizarre notion of what a news organization is, then our Public Affairs Officer does as well.
I’ll trust his opinion on the matter.
I don’t want to be mean or anything, but our p.c. government officials just got an ambassador and three others murdered over in Libya. The CIA was sympathic to communism as they are to radical islam today (if we are nice to them, they won’t kill us in this war) and they got the collapse of the Soviet Union wrong, too.
Our intellegence services don’t know what they heck they are doing and they are full of anti-American liberal activists. Our government has even named American vets, constitutionalists and the Tea Party as the real domestic terrorists to worry about.
They are totally infiltrated.
I get all that, but what does it have to do with whether or not AlJazeera is a news agency?
For the same reason you would not trust the news sources infiltrated by the KGB as your fact finder during the cold war. But our feeble CIA cozied up to “moderate” leftists during the cold war and were misled and infiltrated.
Looks like they are still doing it. AlJazeera is infiltrated by the Muslim Brotherhood, a radical Islam group the CIA has named “moderate.” So you can believe a certain amount of information as true, but can also count on being misled by other key information presented. Islam is at war with the US but the US is pretending they are not at war with Islam. :(
Of course I wouldn’t place absolute trust in them. They have their bias and point of view, and being islamic I’m sure they’re riddled with terrorist sympathizers.
But as I mentioned up thread, they were more useful when I was in Egypt than the CNN feed was. They showed what was going on in the region while CNN was having stupid special reports about nothing.
I did notice, and I found it interesting, that none of the news outlets reported on anything that could cause a problem for tourism while I was there. I found out from family back home that two Americans and their tour guide were kidnapped; neither AlJazeera nor CNN reported that.
I found out what was really happening in Tahrir Square from our tour guide, who had friends on the ground there, and from AlJazeera’s live reporting and interviewing of people in the Square. CNN couldn’t be bothered.
I’m sad to see the images on TV of places I visited not that long ago. I wouldn’t dare go back now. :-(
I’m sad to see the images on TV of places I visited not that long ago. I wouldn’t dare go back now. :-(
“Well, if I have a bizarre notion of what a news organization is, then our Public Affairs Officer does as well.”
Good grief!
I’ll trust my Israeli news, business and chabad connections over your PAO. Even Alan Dershowitz has enough sense to know that the anti-semites at Al Jazeera are enemies of Israel.
Are you part of the Seattle BDS movement?
You’re not being mean, just truthful.
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