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U.S. Owes Al-Jazeera Journalist Freedom

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Journalists are entrusted with a huge duty to the people they serve. They are supposed to show what is happening in the most objective way possible. In order to do this, sometimes they have to risk going to some of the most dangerous areas of the world and dealing with some of the most unsavory people when they get there....

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Eric Beyrich

posted 9/05/07 @ 10:32 AM EST

I have much greater trust and faith in the US Military and the American tribunals than in the stories being told by captured and accused terrorists. Recall that the Taliban / Al Queda used bonefide press agents to infiltrate the Northern Alliance in Afganistan and then used explosive-laided cameras to assassinate the NA leader. Q. Why didn't the press evaluate its roll in aiding terrorisms them? Recall that the current enemy does not abide by any element of the Geneva Convention and regularly murders civilians and uses children as human shields and suicide bombers. Taking their "word" for anything seems like a foolish idea at best, and giving it a broad audience seems dangerous to all freedom loving people hold dear. Indeed, if it were not for the clemency of the US, captured terrorist agents would be brutally killed soon after their capture by local authroies who have had to deal with the aftermath of their murders and mayhem. Hopefully, even the left-leaning journalism schools of American can come to see that they are applying an irrational, double-standard in their treatment of the US and its campaign to protect the free world from those who would destroy it. But them again, if your read the polemics in the NY Times and others, it seems that the press will never learn to stop playing politics with the lives of real people.
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Kinan Ali

posted 9/08/07 @ 3:02 PM EST

This is not about your personal (faith) and (trust). This about a journalist who was not charged with any crime. His arrest is political and unjust. The moral bankrupcy is nauseating.
Originally posted by

Eric Beyrich

 I have much greater trust and faith in the US Military and the American tribunals than in the stories being told by captured and accused terrorists. Recall that the Taliban / Al Queda used bonefide press agents to infiltrate the Northern Alliance in Afganistan and then used explosive-laided cameras to assassinate the NA leader. Q. Why didn't the press evaluate its roll in aiding terrorisms them? Recall that the current enemy does not abide by any element of the Geneva Convention and regularly murders civilians and uses children as human shields and suicide bombers. Taking their "word" for anything seems like a foolish idea at best, and giving it a broad audience seems dangerous to all freedom loving people hold dear. Indeed, if it were not for the clemency of the US, captured terrorist agents would be brutally killed soon after their capture by local authroies who have had to deal with the aftermath of their murders and mayhem. Hopefully, even the left-leaning journalism schools of American can come to see that they are applying an irrational, double-standard in their treatment of the US and its campaign to protect the free world from those who would destroy it. But them again, if your read the polemics in the NY Times and others, it seems that the press will never learn to stop playing politics with the lives of real people.
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Carol Cuevas

posted 9/05/07 @ 12:12 PM EST

You are so right about Al-Hajj and others who have been caught up in the disaster of Guantanamo and Extra-ordinary Rendition. With attachments from Chile it is even more painful for me because the same reasons were used to justify torture and disappearances of many innocent students and intellectuals during Chile's Military Junta. The U.S. is now using the same reasons to torture, incarcerate, and disappear. The U.S. even transported children aged six and nine to the United States as an incentive to get top Al Quaeda prisoner, Al Khalid to talk. The children have never been heard from again. There are many more "disappeared" that human rights organizations have listed and requested information about from this government. The future is sure to include war crimes for those who have participated in this human rights travesty. I urge all those who revile the injustice of Guantanamo and Black Sites to write to their Senators and Congresspersons to ask them to do whatever is necessary to stop this program, now! If we don't do something to end this injustice, then we are complicit in crimes against humanity.
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SAS

posted 9/05/07 @ 4:17 PM EST

Free al Hajj- there is NO evidence against him anyway.
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Jeff

posted 9/05/07 @ 5:25 PM EST

1) Sas- you have NO knowledge of evidence against him, don't pretend you do.
2) Hamas is a TERRORIST organization not resistence.
3) Hamas is the one who kidnapped him in the first place.

Grow up and read newspapers, don't live in your little bubble.
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elifish

posted 9/06/07 @ 1:21 AM EST

Please bare with me, the world's run amuck! It all starts and ends with the main man. Will bush even let another pres replace him come election?
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k anderson

posted 9/07/07 @ 2:30 PM EST

What an f-ing idiot you are. End of story.
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elifish

 Please bare with me, the world's run amuck! It all starts and ends with the main man. Will bush even let another pres replace him come election?
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