Bush Administration whines to Qatar about Al Jazeera
“I am not responsible (for) al-Jazeera,” Foreign Minister Hamad bin Jassim said of the Qatar-based station funded by the Gulf ally’s ruler.
“But we will take this concern back to al Jazeera and they have to review (it), because we need al Jazeera to be professional and we don’t want anybody to send lies or to send (the) wrong information,” he said after talks at the White House with Vice President Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.
Hamad said he also discussed plans to sharply increase liquefied natural gas sales to the United States. He told reporters, “There is some agreement to send more gas, around 20 million tons of gas to the United States … by the year 2010.”
I’m sure this deal has NUTHINK to do with al Jazeera….
The Bush administration has warned Qatar its relations with the United States were clouded by what it called “inflammatory” coverage of Iraq by Jazeera, whose satellite broadcasts have a wide Arab audience.
The Bush administration says its Middle East policies promote freedom.
The freedom to be liberated from your property and life….
Here’s the Bush Administration desperately needing a shred of credibility with the Arab world and everything they do alienates them further.