USA. 8 October 2001
US State Department attempts to influence
reporting by independent TV station al-Jazeera
"the television station has been re-running an old television interview with Osama bin Laden and has provided air time for experts hostile to the US."
"The attempt to influence the
editorial independence of al-Jazeera comes one week after the US State Department attempted to prevent an interview with
the leader of Afghanistan?s ruling Taliban militia, Mullah Mohammed Omar, being aired on the US radio station Voice of America. Speaking of the Voice of America, spokesperson for the US State Department, Richard Boucher, said, "considering the fact that US taxpayers pay for this?
We don?t think that the head of the Taliban belongs on this
radio station".
Who has this audio and video? Has anyone seen it? It's got to be online somewhere as an mpeg or avi...
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