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Al Jizz Documentary
Know Your Enemy Department: If you have the time and the self control to fight the urge to pull your seat loose from the floor and hurl it at the screen, Iâd recommend this film. It reveals the Al Jazeera staff to be pan-Arab nationalists with profound sympathies for the Jihadis -- as long as they help to advance their Nasserite agenda. Also explored are the Arab love-hate relationship with the West and the deep Arab need to explain everything with a conspiracy. Thatâs my review. The link goes to the WaPoâs write up. An excerpt is provided below for balance and nuance (sarcasm alert).Blessed with good timing and virtually unlimited access to her sources, Noujaim -- who co-directed the 2001 documentary "startup.com" [also recommended] -- was at al-Jazeeraâs headquarters in Qatar on the eve of the U.S. invasion of Iraq in March 2003. There, Arab journalists, along with their 40 million viewers, watched as President Bush announced his plan to invade a country just 20 miles away [sic]. Eventually, al-Jazeera reporters went to Baghdad to cover the war, and one died there, killed in a U.S. attack that, even though it was deemed justified in a later investigation, looks from the filmâs perspective like nothing short of a scandal. Posted by: 11A5S 2004-06-28 |
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