The Egyptian authorities are revoking the Al Jazeera Network’s licence to broadcast from the country, and will be shutting down its bureau office in Cairo, state television has said.
“The information minister [Anas al-Fikki] ordered … suspension of operations of Al Jazeera, cancelling of its licences and withdrawing accreditation to all its staff as of today,” a statement on the official Mena news agency said on Sunday.
In a statement, Al Jazeera said it strongly denounces and condemns the closure of its bureau in Cairo by the Egyptian government. The network received notification from the Egyptian authorities on Sunday morning.
“Al Jazeera has received widespread global acclaim for their coverage on the ground across the length and breadth of Egypt,” the statement said.
An Al Jazeera spokesman said that the company would continue its strong coverage regardless.
Found by Cinàedh.
My my my. This is getting interesting.
We do live in interesting times, don’t we?
Just when the “TRAGEDY IN TUCSON” was getting old, something else steps up to keep Wolfie Blitzed busy.
Watched some of their coverage, left me in no doubt that they have lost their journalistic compass.
Jeez that Information Minister is a real Anas.
Frankly, I would FUCKING LOVE to see this in the United States! Am I the only one?
And I am not referring to the shutdown of Al Jazeera.
#4 & 5
You mean shutting down Fox News?
Nah how would the Terror Mosque make any money?
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#2 They only had it (integrity) as a front. Whenever they can take their facade off, they do it.
#5 Thanks for clearing it up, but we’re not as dense as you are. Yes, I would love to see your house ransacked.
You can watch live Al Jazeera TV online here:
http://english.aljazeera.net/watch_now/
There is also a free iPhone / iPad Al Jazeera App which stream live Al Jazeera TV (at least it is available in Canadian iTunes store- I have not check the US but I am pretty sure you can get it there too).
Thank God for iTunes!
… and Canada!
IF THIS IS AN INTERNAL STRUGGLE, Why are we needed to watch?
Only if we instigated it in the FIRST place would we want to watch.
@#4,5 You mean crossing the “Mu” off the Egyptian protest signs?
I can watch Al Jazerrs live over-the-air on WNVC TV chanel 30-5 locally 24/7.
#4,#5, you’ve never heard, “live by the sword, die by the sword”? Given what you requested, the last thing you would eat is the barrel of your own gun!!!
Like I’ve always said: The power to license is the power to control. With anything the government licenses it can always revoke that license. That’s why there should never be a license to be a journalist.
Do they have Al Jazeera in Spanish in the US?
Is this a WTF moment?
#4 – No, you are not the only one. But there are millions afraid to admit it.
Grampa, what you gonna do when they stop your social security payments, you run out of food, and have to fight 20 somethings for bread at the store?
You wouldn’t last 30 days.
+ 2 Points to Al Jazeera for being shut down.
Assuming that the media is accurate in spoon feeding us the line that the peoples of many Middle Eastern countries despise their governments, a shut down serves as a ringing endorsement of the content, rightfully or not.
If I had something to sell I would be buying ads with Al Jazeera right now.
Never fear!!!!
“Al-Jazeera English, corporate cousin to the Arabic-language network, is nearly 3 years old and available in 100 countries but only a smattering of U.S. homes – until Monday, when San Francisco’s Link TV will begin carrying “World News,” its 30-minute daily news program.”
(from May,2010)
#16 – At that point I will be a little more vocal and possibly a little more physical. My SS money is something I earned. I have not chosen to donate to you or the selfish young idiots who do not understand what the Repukelicans are doing. My cold, hungry, impoverished old years may be just a foreshadowing of what you will some day be looking at. It’s time for people to put their ideology aside and think practically.
Eli Shaked, a former Israeli ambassador to Cairo, offered a grim assessment Sunday in the daily Yediot Ahronot.
“The assumption at present is that Mubarak’s regime is living on borrowed time, and that a transition government will be formed for the next number of months until new general elections are held,” he wrote.
“If those elections are held in a way that the Americans want, the most likely result will be that the Muslim Brotherhood will win a majority and will be the dominant force in the next government. That is why it is only a question of a brief period of time before Israel’s peace with Egypt pays the price,” wrote Shaked.
Some in Israel have critically compared President Barack Obama’s response to the crisis to that of President Jimmy Carter to the Iranian revolution in 1979. Obama has called on Mubarak to show restraint and pass unspecified reforms in Egypt.
“Jimmy Carter will go down in American history as ‘the president who lost Iran,’ which during his term went from being a major strategic ally of the United States to being the revolutionary Islamic republic,” wrote the analyst Aluf Benn in the daily Haaretz. “Barack Obama will be remembered as the president who ‘lost’ Turkey, Lebanon and Egypt, and during whose tenure America’s alliances in the Middle East crumbled.”
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20110130/D9L2Q1Q00.html
A anticolonialist muslim from Kenya would see this in a positive light.