Al Jazeera spyed for the Iraqi Regime

Channel 4 News

[skinman_uk]

Just been watching UK channel 4 news and they have a report stating that documents found in Baghdad have been released containing information that Al Jazeera reporters were Secret Agents for the Iraqi regime. The documents also reveal that they received gifts and payments for their services.3 people were identified in the document. Can't find any links at the moment...

[Travis McGee]

I'm shocked! SHOCKED I say!

[Dog]

AJ was acting as a liaison between OBL and Saddam....uh oh!

[Grampa Dave]

A very nice find!

The intelligence agency documents include files on three agents: two are Baghdad-based employees, the third is a senior Qatar-based executive. His file includes details of a gift of gold to his wife. It talks of his efforts to get air time for Iraqi officials.

Also in his file, a note confirming that copies of letters sent to Al Jazeera by Osama Bin Laden in the wake of 9/11, were passed to Baghdad.

[Republican Red]

Weekly Standard Article "Saddam's Cash"

http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/002/605fgcob.asp

Documents how Hussein bought and paid for journalists, UN weapons Inspectors (Ritter) and Congressman (McDermott.

[Bronzewound]

Wonder if Ms. Garafalo is shocked and saddened by this...since (as she told Fox News) she relies on Al Jazeera for the real truth?

[MEG33]

Were some of the Al Jazeera reporters with our troops? I believe they were!..(or at least hangers on)

[Grampa Dave]

Lets post all of this for everyone to see it, not just our snips and remarks:

Al-Jazeera allegations
Iraq



Published: 10-May-2003
By: Ian Williams



Documents have come to light which suggest three Al Jazeera employees in Baghdad were also working for Saddam Husseins regime. Al Jazeera deny any wrong doing.



The files keep coming. Hundreds of thousands of Iraqi intelligence agency documents are now in the hands of the CIA and Iraqi opposition groups, who’ve collected them from ministries across Baghdad.



Though most are still under CIA control, their contents are beginning to emerge: The latest, the secret police files on Al Jazeera, the Arab satellite news channel, described by the Iraqis as “a mobilised instrument of our propaganda”. The Files boast of what they call “close cooperation” with Al Jazeera executives.



Al-Jazeera, based in Gulf State of Qatar, has enjoyed good access to officials and facilities in Iraq – they had the first pictures of what was thought to be Saddam’s safe house.



The Americans and British accused them of bias during the war, and were outraged when the station showed pictures of Coalition POWs.



The intelligence agency documents include files on three agents: two are Baghdad-based employees, the third is a senior Qatar-based executive. His file includes details of a gift of gold to his wife. It talks of his efforts to get air time for Iraqi officials.



Also in his file, a note confirming that copies of letters sent to Al Jazeera by Osama Bin Laden in the wake of 9/11, were passed to Baghdad.



Full details of the files will be published in the Sunday Times tomorrow, whose correspondent has spent several days examining them.



Al-Jazeera has defended its war coverage as robust and independent, more prepared to show the full horrors of the war. Its own office was bombed and one correspondent killed during the American assault on Baghdad.



Al Jazeera executives in the city were not available for comment, but will probably see the release of the files as a further effort to tarnish their name – especially given that the intelligence agency documents are controlled by Ahmed Chalabi’s Iraqi National Congress, and by the CIA.



And of course under Saddam Hussein it was virtually impossible for and news organisation trying to work in Iraq not to have some sort of contact with the security apparatus. The question raised by the files is whether Al Jazeera went further than this and in the process compromised their independence.

[Dog]

Sounds like we could ask the government of Qatar to shut down AJ....they are in bed with OBL...

[Grampa Dave]

Please ping me so I can find it Monday. A lot of stuff is planned for Mother's Day and Free Republic ain't part of it.

[MEG33]

They can be investigated ..They are not government sponsored,which made them unique.

[Dog]

. Its own office was bombed and one correspondent killed during the American assault on Baghdad.

This makes sense now....I bet we had intel they were feeding targeting info to the Iraqs from that office......makes sense now.

[b4its2late]

I'm waiting for the list to come out of who wasn't spying for Iraq. It'll be a much shorter list.....

[Grampa Dave]

Isn't this great. We are having this stuff being revealed right in front of us for the price admission to Free Republic.


Besides this, great stuff, now we can find out what Tailgunner Joe found out about commies in America.

The Rats must be having an absolute miserable time. First the quick Regime Change in Iraq. Then GW tailhooking them right off their stage. Now these revelations of long ago and not so long ago!

[sheikdetailfeather]

Yes! I had forgotten about the bombing!!!! Good one Dog.

[Grampa Dave]

Or not being bribed by the $oddomites. Those could be a couple of shorter lists of who's who in the leftwing media and political world.

[skinman_uk]

Dog I also think that is why the offices were bombed

[sheikdetailfeather]

Yes! Who wasn't spying for Iraq? is right!

[MattGarrett]

Oh gee. What a surprise.

[Grampa Dave]

When you get real time elint intel that a foriegn embassy or so called news agency is spying on your guys and giving info to the enemy, some bad $hite happens to the guilty party. Remember the Chinese Embassy in the Clintoon's wag the fox in Yugoslavia. So Sorry about that!

[Dog]

There is some serious pay back being dished out with these selected leaks. First.... Galloway then that little story about Ritter last week then the mobile bio lab...........now this gem.

I would expect we will soon see a couple of files with the name of "Chirac" and "Putin" to surface soon with the debate going on in the UN..