DUBAI — Syrian intelligence sent death threats to Al Arabiya television after it aired an interview with UN chief Kofi Annan in which he urged Syria to withdraw from Lebanon by April, a source at the station said yesterday. "There were death threats against Arabiya's staff in Beirut by the Syrians," the source said, referring to Syrian intelligence. Syrian officials were not immediately available to comment.| Is a comment really necessary? |
In a front-page article on Saturday, Tishreen accused Al Arabiya of ignoring later remarks by a UN spokesman who stressed Annan had not been setting a deadline. "This incident along with many other incidents raise dozens of questions about the mission of this station and the bodies that run and finance it," Tishreen said about the majority Saudi-owned station, which is seen by Arab radicals as pro-Western.
