Category: Legacy Site

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Rober Fisk | Independent/Information Clearing House | 30 July 2003 30 July 2003: (The Independent) A day after Paul Wolfowitz, the US Deputy Defence Secretary, claimed that the Arabic Al-Jazeera television channel was “inciting violence” and “endangering the lives of American troops” in Iraq, the station’s Baghdad bureau chief has written a scathing reply,

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) BBC News | BBC News | 14 July 2003 The editor of a daily Irish language newspaper has said the Northern Ireland man held by Israeli police was working as their correspondent. The man – who is in his 40s – was arrested at the weekend by Israeli security forces reportedly acting on information

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Gørill Hus and Guri Wiggen | commondreams.org | 3 July 2003 OSLO – If the reality in Iraq is one thing and the reporting of it remains another, it is because much of the media wants it that way, say two leading journalists who have been reporting the ‘other’ side of the Iraq story.

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Anat Balint | Haaretz | 29 June 2003 Israel declared over the weekend that it is cutting off ties with the BBC to protest a repeat broadcast on non-conventional weapons said to be in Israel. The program was broadcast for the first time in March in Britain, and was rerun Saturday on a BBC

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Joanne Levine | The Washington Post | 25 June 2006 In a country’s hinterlands, a distant region seldom visited by outsiders, a television crew investigates why so many residents are fleeing the area. When local officials catch wind of the crew’s presence, they begin interrogating people the journalists interviewed, and pressure others not to

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Linda S. Heard | Counterpunch | 23 November 2005 On Tuesday, Britain’s Daily Mirror published an explosive story riddled with implications concerning the character and intent of the US president when pursuing his so-called ‘war on terror’, and perhaps, shedding light on the bombing of Al Jazeera’s offices in both Kabul and Baghdad. Twenty-four

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Mark Townsend | The Observer | 24 April 2005 Leaked report returns Gaza Strip death of British film-maker to the spotlight Israeli soldiers stand accused this weekend of ‘lying’ and tampering with evidence in an attempt to obstruct an inquiry by military prosecutors into the death of British film-maker James Miller, according to internal

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) HERB KEINON | The Jerusalem Post | 21 April 2005 Israeli officials expressed dismay this week that BBC reporter Orla Guerin, who has come under sharp attack for what some perceive as an anti-Israeli bias in her coverage, will receive an MBE honor from the British government for “outstanding service to broadcasting.” Diaspora Affairs

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) MARIA SANMINIATELLI | AP/Yahoo! | 6 March 2006 ROME – The freed Italian hostage wounded by American troops at a checkpoint in Baghdad shortly after her release said in an article Sunday that her Iraqi captors had warned her U.S. forces “might intervene.” Giuliana Sgrena, who writes for the communist newspaper Il Manifesto, described

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Reporters Without Borders | 15 January 2004 Reporters Without Borders called today for the reopening of the enquiry into who was really responsible for the US Army’s “criminal negligence” in shooting at the Palestine Hotel in Baghdad on 8 April 2003 and causing the death of two journalists – Ukrainian cameramen Taras Protsyuk (of