Submitted by Diane Farsetta on
Colin Powell and other U.S. officials are complaining to Middle Eastern news executives and government officials about Al Jazeera's and Al Arabiya's "inflammatory" reporting on Iraq. The Pentagon's Arabic Media and Programs Unit has developed a "truth matrix" of allegedly unfair or untrue reports. U.S. "commanders are directing soldiers and marines to use their personal digital cameras to take pictures of any insurgents shooting from mosques, from behind crowds of women and children or other places that would violate the laws of war," for Arab and Western media. Israel's Haaretz sees things differently: "Since the start of the war, the Americans have persecuted [Al Jazeera's] journalists - not because they report lies, but because they are virtually the only ones who manage to report the truth."
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