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		<title>By: RJ</title>
		<link>http://dissidentvoice.org/2008/12/breaking-the-stanglehold-on-middle-east-news-coverage/#comment-33690</link>
		<dc:creator>RJ</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Dec 2008 18:19:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;I left for the Jazeera Arabic programme, Top Secret, which identified the 911 attackers when Osama bin Laden himself contacted the programme to name the perpetrators. They would be caught even as we ran the trailers.&quot;

Oh good.  He prevented 9-11.  It was just  a bad dream after all. Do you fucking people live in lala land?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;I left for the Jazeera Arabic programme, Top Secret, which identified the 911 attackers when Osama bin Laden himself contacted the programme to name the perpetrators. They would be caught even as we ran the trailers.&#8221;</p>
<p>Oh good.  He prevented 9-11.  It was just  a bad dream after all. Do you fucking people live in lala land?</p>
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		<title>By: moonkoon</title>
		<link>http://dissidentvoice.org/2008/12/breaking-the-stanglehold-on-middle-east-news-coverage/#comment-33680</link>
		<dc:creator>moonkoon</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Dec 2008 15:11:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hi y&#039;all, I found this story via Rowan&#039;s blog and posted the following there which may be of interest to readers here.
(I think someone may be having a lend of you, you know,  pulling your leg.)

&quot;&lt;i&gt;…They would be caught…&lt;/i&gt;

Hmmm, perhaps he means they caught some &lt;b&gt;pieces&lt;/b&gt; of the alleged perpetrators.

&lt;i&gt;“Osama bin Laden himself contacted the programme to name the perpetrators.”,&lt;/i&gt;

Perfectly reasonable, he of all people would have been aware that it was an “inside job”.
Oh sorry, you mean he gave  a list of the &lt;b&gt;alleged&lt;/b&gt; perpetrators to Al Jazeera.
It must have taken quite a while to get through the names (and I presume other relevant (?) details) of the 19 hijackers over the phone, or did he perhaps fax or email it via satelite link from the cold damp cave.
Yes, well, apart from the fact that I can think of no earthly reason why anybody would choose to impart this information at that time, I guess that would also satisfy the “man on the Clapham bus”.

But a word of caution, your source, Al Jazeera, may not be exactly what it claims to be.
Be that as it may, I think you can be sure that they do know what really happened, to coin a phrase. :-)  &quot;

Happy Christmas!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi y&#8217;all, I found this story via Rowan&#8217;s blog and posted the following there which may be of interest to readers here.<br />
(I think someone may be having a lend of you, you know,  pulling your leg.)</p>
<p>&#8220;<i>…They would be caught…</i></p>
<p>Hmmm, perhaps he means they caught some <b>pieces</b> of the alleged perpetrators.</p>
<p><i>“Osama bin Laden himself contacted the programme to name the perpetrators.”,</i></p>
<p>Perfectly reasonable, he of all people would have been aware that it was an “inside job”.<br />
Oh sorry, you mean he gave  a list of the <b>alleged</b> perpetrators to Al Jazeera.<br />
It must have taken quite a while to get through the names (and I presume other relevant (?) details) of the 19 hijackers over the phone, or did he perhaps fax or email it via satelite link from the cold damp cave.<br />
Yes, well, apart from the fact that I can think of no earthly reason why anybody would choose to impart this information at that time, I guess that would also satisfy the “man on the Clapham bus”.</p>
<p>But a word of caution, your source, Al Jazeera, may not be exactly what it claims to be.<br />
Be that as it may, I think you can be sure that they do know what really happened, to coin a phrase. :-)  &#8221;</p>
<p>Happy Christmas!</p>
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		<title>By: Rowan Berkeley</title>
		<link>http://dissidentvoice.org/2008/12/breaking-the-stanglehold-on-middle-east-news-coverage/#comment-33669</link>
		<dc:creator>Rowan Berkeley</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Dec 2008 06:03:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Talking of al Jazeera, which, outside the little world of CounterPunchers, is pretty universally regarded as a CIA proxy, I have to give them credit for producing the most transparently ridiculous, badly staged, amateur &quot;Baitullah Mehsud&quot; video known to me in english:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=BbJHl0XfNE4</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Talking of al Jazeera, which, outside the little world of CounterPunchers, is pretty universally regarded as a CIA proxy, I have to give them credit for producing the most transparently ridiculous, badly staged, amateur &#8220;Baitullah Mehsud&#8221; video known to me in english:<br />
<a href="http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=BbJHl0XfNE4" rel="nofollow">http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=BbJHl0XfNE4</a></p>
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		<title>By: Rowan Berkeley</title>
		<link>http://dissidentvoice.org/2008/12/breaking-the-stanglehold-on-middle-east-news-coverage/#comment-33668</link>
		<dc:creator>Rowan Berkeley</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Dec 2008 05:58:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Joshua, quite apart from the fact that these &#039;cats,&#039;&#039; as you oddly describe them, are barely plausible patsies, and have been ADMITTEDLY tortured to the point of near-death continuously by your compatriots for several years, my point is that the claim that BIN LADEN TURNED THEM IN VIA AL JAZEERA is a stupid lie. The reason it is stupid is that, if it were true, it would be as well known as the colour of Monica Lewinsky&#039;s cocktail dress. I can imagine your preposterous interviewee saying, &quot;well, the program is called Top Secret, that&#039;s why we can&#039;t show you what was used in it.&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Joshua, quite apart from the fact that these &#8216;cats,&#8221; as you oddly describe them, are barely plausible patsies, and have been ADMITTEDLY tortured to the point of near-death continuously by your compatriots for several years, my point is that the claim that BIN LADEN TURNED THEM IN VIA AL JAZEERA is a stupid lie. The reason it is stupid is that, if it were true, it would be as well known as the colour of Monica Lewinsky&#8217;s cocktail dress. I can imagine your preposterous interviewee saying, &#8220;well, the program is called Top Secret, that&#8217;s why we can&#8217;t show you what was used in it.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>By: Joshua Frank</title>
		<link>http://dissidentvoice.org/2008/12/breaking-the-stanglehold-on-middle-east-news-coverage/#comment-33622</link>
		<dc:creator>Joshua Frank</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Dec 2008 15:58:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Rowan, have you not heard of these cats?

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/09/us/09gitmo.html?bl&amp;ex=1228885200&amp;en=c7f69aeca37e3a40&amp;ei=5087%0A</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Rowan, have you not heard of these cats?</p>
<p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/09/us/09gitmo.html?bl&#038;ex=1228885200&#038;en=c7f69aeca37e3a40&#038;ei=5087" rel="nofollow">http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/09/us/09gitmo.html?bl&#038;ex=1228885200&#038;en=c7f69aeca37e3a40&#038;ei=5087</a></p>
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		<title>By: Rowan Berkeley</title>
		<link>http://dissidentvoice.org/2008/12/breaking-the-stanglehold-on-middle-east-news-coverage/#comment-33618</link>
		<dc:creator>Rowan Berkeley</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Dec 2008 13:56:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>This is the obvious place to start, but I can tell you now : there is no report anywhere except in the mind of this interviewee of yours to the effect that &quot;Osama bin Laden himself contacted the programme to name the perpetrators.&quot; The statement by your interviewee following makes no sense, as I keep trying to tell you : &quot;They would be caught even as we ran the trailers.&quot; Who is that supposed to be referring to? The supposed perpetrators having engaged in a rather definitive form of suicide bombing, were obviously DEAD.
http://www.historycommons.org/context.jsp?item=a102001instigated#a102001instigated</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is the obvious place to start, but I can tell you now : there is no report anywhere except in the mind of this interviewee of yours to the effect that &#8220;Osama bin Laden himself contacted the programme to name the perpetrators.&#8221; The statement by your interviewee following makes no sense, as I keep trying to tell you : &#8220;They would be caught even as we ran the trailers.&#8221; Who is that supposed to be referring to? The supposed perpetrators having engaged in a rather definitive form of suicide bombing, were obviously DEAD.<br />
<a href="http://www.historycommons.org/context.jsp?item=a102001instigated#a102001instigated" rel="nofollow">http://www.historycommons.org/context.jsp?item=a102001instigated#a102001instigated</a></p>
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		<title>By: Rowan Berkeley</title>
		<link>http://dissidentvoice.org/2008/12/breaking-the-stanglehold-on-middle-east-news-coverage/#comment-33616</link>
		<dc:creator>Rowan Berkeley</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Dec 2008 13:41:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Show me some corroboration for that bullshit tale.</description>
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		<title>By: Joshua Frank</title>
		<link>http://dissidentvoice.org/2008/12/breaking-the-stanglehold-on-middle-east-news-coverage/#comment-33612</link>
		<dc:creator>Joshua Frank</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Dec 2008 06:11:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Rowan, I think Afshin explains it rather well. As the al Qaeda 9/11 suspects were being caught, their identities were being broadcast on his show Top Secret.  Bin Laden had contacted the program and they had broken the story well before any other news outlets.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Rowan, I think Afshin explains it rather well. As the al Qaeda 9/11 suspects were being caught, their identities were being broadcast on his show Top Secret.  Bin Laden had contacted the program and they had broken the story well before any other news outlets.</p>
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		<title>By: Rowan Berkeley</title>
		<link>http://dissidentvoice.org/2008/12/breaking-the-stanglehold-on-middle-east-news-coverage/#comment-33611</link>
		<dc:creator>Rowan Berkeley</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Dec 2008 05:51:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Ok, then, I shall take it that you neither know nor care WTF he was talking about. Way to go, Josh.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ok, then, I shall take it that you neither know nor care WTF he was talking about. Way to go, Josh.</p>
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		<title>By: Rowan Berkeley</title>
		<link>http://dissidentvoice.org/2008/12/breaking-the-stanglehold-on-middle-east-news-coverage/#comment-33565</link>
		<dc:creator>Rowan Berkeley</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2008 16:10:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I mean, surely, a basic part of interviewing someone is ensuring that what they say is comprehensible, is it not?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I mean, surely, a basic part of interviewing someone is ensuring that what they say is comprehensible, is it not?</p>
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		<title>By: Rowan Berkeley</title>
		<link>http://dissidentvoice.org/2008/12/breaking-the-stanglehold-on-middle-east-news-coverage/#comment-33471</link>
		<dc:creator>Rowan Berkeley</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2008 17:40:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Joshua, would you explain this, please?

&lt;i&gt;I left for the Jazeera Arabic programme, Top Secret, which identified the 911 attackers when Osama bin Laden himself contacted the programme to name the perpetrators. They would be caught even as we ran the trailers.&lt;/i&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Joshua, would you explain this, please?</p>
<p><i>I left for the Jazeera Arabic programme, Top Secret, which identified the 911 attackers when Osama bin Laden himself contacted the programme to name the perpetrators. They would be caught even as we ran the trailers.</i></p>
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		<title>By: Max Shields</title>
		<link>http://dissidentvoice.org/2008/12/breaking-the-stanglehold-on-middle-east-news-coverage/#comment-33464</link>
		<dc:creator>Max Shields</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2008 16:09:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Let us not forget the illustrious pragmatic words of the President-elect (B. Obama): 

&quot;During his 2008 AIPAC speech, for instance, Obama promised, &quot;I will do everything in my power to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon. Everything in my power. Everything.&quot; Later, he remarked, &quot;It was just a few years after the liberation of the camps that David Ben-Gurion declared the founding of the Jewish state of Israel. We know that the establishment of Israel was just and necessary, rooted in centuries of struggle and decades of patient work, but 60 years later we know that we cannot relent, we cannot yield, and as president I will never compromise when it comes to Israel&#039;s security.&quot; 

http://www.antiwar.com/orig/salaita.php?articleid=13881</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Let us not forget the illustrious pragmatic words of the President-elect (B. Obama): </p>
<p>&#8220;During his 2008 AIPAC speech, for instance, Obama promised, &#8220;I will do everything in my power to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon. Everything in my power. Everything.&#8221; Later, he remarked, &#8220;It was just a few years after the liberation of the camps that David Ben-Gurion declared the founding of the Jewish state of Israel. We know that the establishment of Israel was just and necessary, rooted in centuries of struggle and decades of patient work, but 60 years later we know that we cannot relent, we cannot yield, and as president I will never compromise when it comes to Israel&#8217;s security.&#8221; </p>
<p><a href="http://www.antiwar.com/orig/salaita.php?articleid=13881" rel="nofollow">http://www.antiwar.com/orig/salaita.php?articleid=13881</a></p>
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		<title>By: mary</title>
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		<dc:creator>mary</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2008 14:48:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>This is a very good example of the work that Press TV do. A video report of the latest Free Gaza boat to arrive in Gaza from Cyprus here: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=rYqPnrkHZXA

There will be nothing at all about this  here in the UK on the BBC, ITV or Channel 4 TV news, nor will there be any reports in the newspapers. Palestine and the occupied territories hardly feature. 

All foreign journalists and Israeli journalists, such as those from Ha&#039;aretz,  are banned from entering Gaza therefore Press is the only medium through which we can see into this prison. Our thanks to them.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is a very good example of the work that Press TV do. A video report of the latest Free Gaza boat to arrive in Gaza from Cyprus here: <a href="http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=rYqPnrkHZXA" rel="nofollow">http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=rYqPnrkHZXA</a></p>
<p>There will be nothing at all about this  here in the UK on the BBC, ITV or Channel 4 TV news, nor will there be any reports in the newspapers. Palestine and the occupied territories hardly feature. </p>
<p>All foreign journalists and Israeli journalists, such as those from Ha&#8217;aretz,  are banned from entering Gaza therefore Press is the only medium through which we can see into this prison. Our thanks to them.</p>
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		<title>By: Sam</title>
		<link>http://dissidentvoice.org/2008/12/breaking-the-stanglehold-on-middle-east-news-coverage/#comment-33419</link>
		<dc:creator>Sam</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2008 19:47:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thank you Mr. Frank for spreading the word about Press TV!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thank you Mr. Frank for spreading the word about Press TV!</p>
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		<title>By: Don Hawkins</title>
		<link>http://dissidentvoice.org/2008/12/breaking-the-stanglehold-on-middle-east-news-coverage/#comment-33411</link>
		<dc:creator>Don Hawkins</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2008 18:23:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Just added Press TV to my favorites.</description>
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