Al-Jazeera made the decision to pull two ⌠anti-US cartoons from its website last month under US pressure after an article appeared in a Kuwaiti newspaper quoting a US Gulf-based diplomat as saying that Congress had proposed to George W. Bush he should put ⌠all possible pressure on the Qatari government to close down the satellite station, Arab News has learned.
The two cartoons were pulled ⌠without any hesitation from both the Arabic and English language websites after a US government official complained about them, Arab News reported yesterday, making a mockery of Al-Jazeera's reputation for fiercely safeguarding its journalistic independence against outside pressure.
Дятел был скромный ученый и вел строго уединенную жизнь. Ни с кем никогда не виделся (многие даже думали, что он запоем, как и все серьезные ученые, пьет), но целые дни сидел на сосновом суку и все долбил.....
(C) Михаил Евграфович Салтыков-Щедрин. Орел-меценат
Study: Wrong impressions helped support Iraq war By FRANK DAVIES Knight Ridder Newspapers
WASHINGTON - A majority of Americans have held at least one of three mistaken impressions about the U.S.-led war in Iraq, according to a new study released Thursday, and those misperceptions contributed to much of the popular support for the war.
The three common mistaken impressions are that:
- U.S. forces found weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
- There's clear evidence that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein worked closely with the Sept. 11 terrorists.
- People in foreign countries generally either backed the U.S.-led war or were evenly split between supporting and opposing it. snip
