Al-Jazeera starts full english language online service Sept 1st

[wwwyearzeroorg]

Now you dont need to choose between CNN, the BBC and Fox...


http://english.aljazeera.net

[shirlden]

1. Thanks for the heads up

n/t

[Gman]

2. Finally, some REAL news!

thanks. I haven't checked AJ in a while.

[lindashaw]

3. This was in a piece about John McCain from al-Jazeera...interesting

Senator presses Bush on Muslim troops

Monday 01 September 2003, 9:40 Makka Time, 6:40 GMT

...snip

Friday's bombing in Najaf has fuelled the anger of Iraq's Shia community who make up about 53% of the population, but who were oppressed by Saddam's Sunni elite.

Two Saudi citizens have been arrested after the Najaf attack, when they sent an email saying “mission accomplished: the dog is dead”.

The men were grabbed by a crowd in Najaf on Saturday, the day after the bombing and taken to a police station after being seen sending the mail from an Internet café, an anonymous source was quoted by a London-based newspaper as saying.

The two suspects apparently attracted the attention of the son of the café owner after having “offered a larger than usual sum of money to use a computer,” said the British daily on Monday.

It was then that the son saw the men send a message saying, “mission accomplished: the dog is dead”.


http://english.aljazeera.net/Archive/News/ArabWorld/2003_9/Bush+faces+Shia+fury+and+domestic+unease.htm

[watercolors]

4. thanks for the link

Have new computer and provider, lost all my favorite sites, e-mails, and my Du password, so now I start over with new username, at 2 and counting again. Its great that I can return to the fold after a month.

[newyawker99]

16. Hi watercolors!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[IndianaGreen]

5. And it has a poll on Iraq!

Why did the US occupy Iraq?
a. To control its oil
b. To safeguard Israel's interests
c. To get rid of alleged WMDs

Results as of this posting:

a 47%
b 42%
c 11%


Number of Pollers: 2199

[McDiggy]

13. ...was

...looks like a Freeping in progress, WMD is up to 18%, those people really have nothing better to do.

I found this artice interesting in that they actually talk about neo-conservatives, Wolfowitz, the cabal, etc. I would die from shock if I saw that here.

http://english.aljazeera.net/Special+Reports/Circle+of+Lies.htm

[NYC]

14. Poll update:

Why did the US occupy Iraq?

a. To control its oil 45%
b. To safeguard Israel's interests 36%
c. To get rid of alleged WMDs 19%

Number of Pollers: 3416

[Neutrino]

6. Receive Error Message:

I've been waiting for English AlJazeera, but now receive an
Error Message:

Information Alert

504 Gateway Time-Out

Lost Connection to Original Server

Both on IE and Netscape.

[Kbowe]

7. Heavy traffic on aljzeera.net.

Got in but very slow. Must be heavy traffic. Appears to be a good media page. US won't like it because it has coverage the US can't control

[Ernesto]

8. Me Too

I think this is pretty "big". The traffic indicates plenty of interest. This could only spell trouble for numb nuts & company!
Truth is their greatest enemy.

[Neutrino]

9. That's for sure. A country that is Free, is either Free, or it is not

Any citizen should be able to read any News site they wish to. It's
News--not pornography.

[Neutrino]

10. Finally got in--then Netscape shut my system down

with a Message from Netscape. This is a Home computer, not a
business, so I don't know WTF.

The fact that this happens shows that AlJazeera tells the Truth.

[IndianaGreen]

15. The rightwingers don't want Americans to get their news elsewhere

Unfortunately, they also get a lot of help from "centrist" Democrats in things such as a travel ban to Cuba. Gawd forbid that Americans were to find out for themselves how idiotic, and criminal, US policy has been towards Cuba and the Cuban people.

[tinnypriv]

17. I'm going to Cuba in a few months

Is it really true that US citizens can't go?

WTF is up with that?? You guys are a laughing stock :crazy:

[IndianaGreen]

21. Cuban-Americans can travel to Cuba and take up to $3,000 with them

The rest of us idiots are fined for going to Cuba and are charged with "trading with the enemy."

Both major political parties are indebted to the campaign contributions of Miami Cubans, whose money have held US policy hostaqge to their reactionary ideology.

[WillyT]

11. I 'Pinged' It, Got An 'Unknown Host' Message !!!

Either it got overwhelmed on its first day, or somebody doesn't want it up and running!!!

Didn't it get messed with before???

:tinfoilhat::shrug::tinfoilhat:

[WillyT]

12. OK, That's Weird... I Got In Using The URL In Post #3, But...

when I pinged that address, I still got 'unknown host'!!!

Got to the homepage, pinged that address, got 'unknown host' again!!!

:wtf:

:shrug:

[Astarho]

18. Check out the cartoons

the Vees of Victory is my favorite so far.

[ikojo]

19. Wow! Real news from an Arab perspective

While I cannot call news from aljazeera unbiased I can say it will be a breath of fresh air. They tried to launch an English site following the start of US hostilities on Iraq but it was attacked so often it didn't come up.

Back in March or April a friend, working at an insurance company in Oklahoma, said he tried to access aljazeera and received an email from the company's admin stating that Homeland Security could be monitoring sites and to be careful which sites are visited on company owned computers.

Well, I'll bookmark it tomorrow when I get back to my labor camp. In the same area where I have DU and St Louis Indymedia.

[ikojo]

20. poll so far

Why did the US occupy Iraq?
a. To control its oil
b. To safeguard Israel's interests
c. To get rid of alleged WMDs


a
43%

b
31%

c
26%




Number of Pollers: 5369

[rocktivity]

22. Well, if THIS is an example of what we can expect...

then I say..."Welcome to DU, english.aljazeera.net!" :hi:

US Attacked Over "Green Card" Soldiers

(Photo Caption) The poor and disenfranchised are in the US front lines in Iraq

Nearly 40,000 of America's frontline soldiers...do not count English as their first language...a significant minority of troops fighting under the US banner are not in fact US citizens, but residents hoping to speed up their citizenship...

In a country where further education is prohibitively expensive, and medical care privatised, these incentives deliberately target America's poor minorities, as well as those desperate for citizenship, freeing the sons and daughters of those with money and influence from service...

...It can take several years to gain citizenship, for those lucky enough to get it. Signing up to the army can speed this up, provided the GI comes home alive...


rocknation

[lebkuchen]

23. We can choose between BBC and

BBC.

Things are heating up in Iraq. Thank god for a news agency who can infiltrate and get us info, IF our troops don't shoot them first.