IRAQ WAR ’TRIUMPH ’ : THE BATTLE OF AL-JAZEERA

To say the Iraq War was a total failure would be an unfair assessment. The Pentagon succeeded in rousting the Qatar-based news channel Al-Jazeera from it’s Baghdad headquarters ...... "THE MIDDLE-EAST NETWORK AL-JAZEERA WAS ACCUSED BY DONALD RUMSFELD OF BROADCASTING "VISCOUS , INNACURATE, AND INEXCUSABLE REPORTS ABOUT THE WAR ON IRAQ THE DAY BEFORE PRESIDENT BUSH MET TONY BLAIR AND APPARENTLY SUGGESTED BOMBING THE STATION’S HEADQUARTERS. " ( "Rumsfeld’s Al-Jazeera Outbursts", The Sunday Times of London , Sarah Baxter, 11/27/05 ) http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/00,2089-1892464,00.html Victory over Al-Jazeera was won with this fateful announcement : "Iraq shuts Al-Jazeera Baghdad office" http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/08/07/iraq.al.jazeera The war was won owing to the cunning and brilliance of Don ’Aspartane’ Rumsfeld.... The first battle was waged in Kabul , Afghanistan. "The Qatar-based satellite television television channel , al-Jazeera, claimed yesterday that it’s Kabul office office had been targeted by United States bombers..... Colonel Brian Hoey denied al-Jazeera was the target. The US will not target media..... ( " Al-Jazeera accuses US of Bombing it’s Kabul office" , Matt Wells, The Guardian , 11/17/01 ) http://www.guardian.co.uk/waronterror/story/0,1361,596410,00.html. Rear Admiral Craig Quigley , then head of public affairs at the Pentagon , claimed that the targeted building was a "legitimate target" - Al Qaeda men were crawling all over the place... Of course , the Pentagon had no idea that the targeted building housed the Arabic TV station.... Oh yeah , I’m buying that one..... (FAIR MEDIA ADVISORY : Is Killing part of Pentagon Press Policy ?, 4/10/03 ) http://www.fair.org/press-releases/iraq-journalists.html The second battle in this epic struggle , "The War on Al-Jazeera", was waged in Baghdad. After some initial skirmishes , we hear this news : " A US missile has hit the Baghdad offices of Arab news service , al-Jazeera television , killing one member of the staff and wounding another... a US Central Command Spokesmen told BBC News Online the station "was not and never has been a target". ( Al-Jazeera hit by missile' , BBC NEWS, 4/08/03 )  http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2927527.stm     AN ACCIDENT ?  - NOT !  .  The Pentagon fesses up .  "There were 10 AUTHORISED STRIKES AGAINST "MEDIA FACILITIES" , INCLUDING THE BAGHDAD OFFICE OF TV NEWS CHANNEL AL-JAZEERA ,  IN WHICH A REPORTER DIED"   .... WHAT COMMIE- QAEDA DUPE CAME UP WITH THIS HERETICAL ACCUSATION ?  This information was provided by the Commander of US forces , Michael Moseley, part of his review of the US-led coalition air campaign over Iraq.   http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/06/02/1054406130502.html  (DUMB BOMB USED TO TOPPLE SADDAM, 6/03/03/ ,Mark Forbes, The Age ) Tony Blair apparently stepped up in the nick of time to prevent Dubya from launching an 11th authorised bombing of a "Media facilty". Target : The mothership headquarters of Al-Jazeera - in Qatar ! (" Bush plot to bomb his Arab Ally",11/22/05, Daily Mirror, Kevin Macquire & Andy Lines ) http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/1122-05.htm