Al-Jazeera office shut down in Kuwait
The Kuwaiti government has shut down the local office of the
television channel Al-Jazeera after the Arab news source
reported that a quarter of Kuwait's territory in the northwest
had been sealed off to allow U.S.-Kuwaiti military maneuvers to
take place there on the border with Iraq.
The only criticism in the Western media of this attack on
the freedom of the press has been directed at Kuwait, not the
U.S. This is truly a case of the tail "wagging the dog." It is
Washington that is preparing for a brutal and deadly war in the
Middle East and has the strongest motive to silence any
independent voice in the media.
It should also be remembered that on Nov. 12, 2001, during
the U.S. bombing of Afghanistan, the Pentagon sent a missile
directly into the Kabul office of Al-Jazeera, completely
demolishing it. This was just hours after Tasir Alouni, Kabul
correspondent of what the Associated Press described as "the
Arab world's most respected television channel," was abducted
and beaten by unknown assailants.
--Deirdre Griswold
Reprinted from the Nov. 14, 2002, issue of
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