The silencer
The Pentagon has admitted that it silenced the Arab
television service Al-Jazeera by blowing up its Kabul office
with a missile on Nov. 12. Just minutes before the bomb hit,
Tasir Alouni, Kabul correspondent of what the Associated Press
describes as "the Arab world's most respected television
channel," was abducted and beaten by unknown assailants. Could
there possibly be a more blatant act of suppression of the
press? Yet this is exactly what the U.S. did in the last war,
when it destroyed Belgrade television with a direct bomb hit.
Now the Bush administration is spared the embarrassment of
people around the world seeing the real pictures of the war:
dead bodies of women, children and men, casualties of its
terror bombing campaign.
Reprinted from the Nov. 22, 2001, issue of
Workers World newspaper
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