Al-Jazeera has an axe to grind with Iraq since their al-Qaeda allies were defeated there....
BAGHDAD, July 5 (KUNA) -- The Iraqi government has decided to sue Al-Jazeera satellite news channel, after it had falsely aired scenes of a public execution which it identified as taking place in the southern Iraqi province of Karbala, Iraqi government spokesman Ali Al-Dabagh said on Saturday.
In fact, the Iraqi government notes that the killings involved Afghans who allegedly had raped and murdered a girl in the Iranian city of Karaj near the capital.
Last night, Al-Dabagh was quoted by the Voices of Iraq (VOI) news agency as saying that the case has moved to the legal department in the government to see if it can sue the Doha-based channel under international law.
Earlier Friday, Al-Dabagh warned that al-Jazeera would lose credibility after showing scenes of an execution which it said took place during clashes last March between Iraqi forces and militants of al-Mahdi army loyal to radical Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr.
The "six-month-old scenes show the execution of five Afghans who were convicted of raping and murdering a girl in Iran, which is clear from the white clothes the police were wearing," Al-Dabagh added.
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Does the ACLU know about this?
Posted by: Bob | July 06, 2008 at 11:38 PM
That's an idea, Bob: We send our very own attack dog, the ACLU, into this dogfight, then sit back and watch the lawyers slug it out. Anything that ties up Al-Jazeera's funds is to be welcomed and we should see where we might have our own case for suing it in our courts. I mean this seriously: the real power-house of Islam's imperialist expansion is its oil-wealth funds; we should be suing several Islamic avenues (banks, media outlets) for the financially damaging effects on our security, economies and infrastructures in the West. Once their wealth source is tied down in law-suits, their operations are hugely restricted, even among their own 'umma'.
Posted by: Merrimac | July 07, 2008 at 02:14 AM