Article from Aljazeera.Net
Check out this article. This makes you wonder how much influence over the current Iraqi Government the US Government actually has. Additionally, I want to know who Saaid al-Burini is and where he’s from. I googled him, but nothing came up. He seems very interesting.
Aljazeera.Net - Aljazeera vows to cover Iraq despite closure: “Reactions
Muhammad Bashar al-Faidhi, a spokesman for the Association of Muslim Scholars (AMS), has criticised the closure saying Iraqis are disappointed to learn they are not experiencing freedom of speech yet.
“It is a disappointing move. Aljazeera is the sincerest channel, although it does not report the whole truth.
“There are a lot of tragedies that have gone unreported. We used to wonder why Aljazeera had not been reporting those facts, and we were annoyed at it, but when we learned about the American pressure on this channel, we understood,” said al-Faidhi.
Saaid al-Burini, a candidate for the US Congress, said the US did not want an Arab source of news.
“The US is not happy with the idea that an Arab media organisation is on the ground and reporting independently,” he said.”