For years, the United States and Europe had imposed sanctions on Iraq, and relations were consistently hitting new lows.
From Al Jazeera's coverage in the late s: "Where is the siege on Iraq heading? On December 16, , "Operation Desert Fox" was launched. US and British aircrafts and ships bombed Iraq for four consecutive days. It took 2 years and 2 months after launch to reach this moment, with incremental expansion along the way.
Original newsroom, late s. Within those two years, the size of Al Jazeera's staff had trippled, reaching about journalists and employees. In Afghanistan, the Taliban government had given permission for three international media organisations to open bureaus in the capital. Al Jazeera was one of them. The decision to open the Kabul bureau in May was a significant step forward for the international role that Al Jazeera would play in the years to come. Kuwait was the first country in the world to take overt punitive measures against Al Jazeera.
In June of , the Al Jazeera bureau in Kuwait was shut down temporarily, after an Iraqi caller insulted the Emir of Kuwait in a live, call-in show. Al Jazeera had just aired a promo for an upcoming documentary about the Lebanese Civil War, and it was deemed as an affront to Palestinian President Yasser Arafat. In August of , Mauritanian authorities made a formal request to Qatar to stop broadcasting Al Jazeera to its citizens, which was ignored.
Elections were set for October, and the campaigning was becoming heated. Nouakchott accused Al Jazeera of provoking public disorder. On the second day of the Al-Aqsa Intifada Sept 30 Muhammad al-Durra, 12, was shot dead by Israeli forces in Gaza, while he and his father Jamal were trying to shelter themselves behind a concrete cylinder. Photo: AP. Clashes began to spread throughout the occupied Palestinian territories.
Israel began assassinating Palestinian leaders, and launching air and ground attacks on Palestinian cities, including missile strikes against Palestinian Authority offices in Ramallah on October On November 11, , Palestinian President Yasser Arafat succumbed to a mystery illness, amidst a campaign by Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to assassinate Palestinian leaders of all political backgrounds.
His body was transported back home from France, where he was being treated, and he was buried in Palestine. Yasser Arafat died on Nov. About a year later, on August 15, , Sharon implemented his plan to withdraw from Gaza, while retaining control of the occupied territory from sea, air and land. She was allowed to continue working eventually, but over the years she and other Al Jazeera journalists would have their accreditation revoked by Moroccan authorities from time to time.
Morocco was the ideal location for Al Jazeera's huge production facility, as it enjoyed greater press freedom than its neighbors. People had demonstrated over poor living conditions and joblessness, and there were reports of a security crackdown.
In June , Rachidi, the bureau chief in Morocco, was arrested and fined by Moroccan authorities. By January he left the country. He later served in several leading roles in the newsroom of Al Jazeera Arabic, and management of bureaus in the Middle East and North Africa. The two were reassigned by Al Jazeera in other countries. In October , Moroccan authorities revoked the accreditation of all of the remaining Al Jazeera correspondents in Morocco. On October 29, the government announced that it had suspended Al Jazeera's operations in the country.
On January 1, , Al Jazeera launched one of the first major Arabic-language news website s on the Internet. It continues to be the go-to source of information for millions of people worldwide. The beta version of Al Jazeera's website, circa September 11, , was a turning point in the history of the entire world - and the Middle East in particular. Much of what the world knows about Al Qaeda and its leader at the time, Osama bin Laden, came from videotapes of bin Laden aired on Al Jazeera, where he ruminated on global affairs and East-West relations.
Al Jazeera soon became one of the primary sources of news coming from the Arab and Muslim worlds. The contract called for Rendon to track "the location and use of Al Jazeera news bureaus, reporters and stringers, both regionally and globally.
TRG [The Rendon Group] will also chart event-related regional media coverage to identify the biases of specific journalists and potentially obtain an understanding of their allegiances. Al Jazeera aired a tape of bin Laden discussing the US war on Afghanistan two hours after the initial bombing began. Bin Laden disappeared for years. He was killed by US forces in Pakistan almost 10 years later, on May 2, Tayseer Allouni was Al Jazeera's first bureau chief in Kabul.
On a visit to see his family in Grenada, Spain, in September , he was arrested by Spanish police and sentenced to seven years imprisonment on 26 September Al Jazeera launched a campaign to fight for freedom of the press, and the unfettered right to interview newsmakers and access sources of information. Allouni was released from jail on October 6, , but served the rest of the term under house arrest.
Sami Al Hajj, a native of Sudan, was a cameraman for Al Jazeera, and was in Pakistan on December 15, , when he was detained and handed over to US forces, who deemed him an "enemy combatant. Sami was transferred to Guantanamo Bay internment camp, and endured horrendous conditions for years. To protest the treatment, he and several other prisoners went on a hunger strike starting in January He remained on hunger strike for days, until he was released, on May 1, Al Jazeera journalists stand in solidarity with Sami, circa He had been covering a demonstration in support of Al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden in the southern town of Ma'an.
Security forces also detained another one of Al Jazeera's correspondents in the Amman buruea, Sowsan Abu Hamda, for questioning. Al Jazeera's bureau chief in Amman , Yaser Abuhilala. Al Jazeera was the only media organization covering the event. In June, the Saudi government accused an Al Jazeera programme of insulting the country's royal family.
The channel was banned from covering the pilgrimage to Mecca the following year and was later barred from the country except to cover special events, with special permission.
In November , Kuwait shut down the Al Jazeera bureau again, after the Channel reported that the entire northwestern part of the country was shut down for US-Kuwaiti war exercises. Al Jazeera established a bureau in Beijing in It opened a fascinating window into China for the Arab world, and vice versa.
Al Jazeera's reporters covered the events of Tibet in , providing exclusive footage of the clashes between monks and security forces inside the Dharamsala monastery. The bureau covers all aspects of life in China, including the situation of the Muslim communities in East Turkestan, and provides access to neighboring countries, including North Korea and Myanmar. In , Al Jazeera expanded its China operation to launch a digital presence in Mandarin.
Al Jazeera content is also available on Weibo. On December 23, , Al Jazeera's legendary and long-serving bureau chief in Beijing, Ezzat Shahrour, passed away at the age of He was succeeded by Nasser Abdul Haq.
In late , Al Jazeera launched its English website , with a mix of original reporting and translation of Al Jazeera Arabic content. Look and feel of Al Jazeera's English-language website in Four days after the United States launched its ongoing war on Iraq March 20, the site was hacked. Al Jazeera had crews in all major population centers in Iraq, and went to great lengths to cover the unfolding events. While other media told people where the rockets were fired from, Al Jazeera was showing where they land.
Al Jazeera assistant cameraman Zouhair Nadhim, who was on the bureau's roof with Ayyoub, was injured in the blast. Al Jazeera's former Kabul bureau chief, Tayseer Allouni, had just finished an overnight shift reporting from the rooftop of the building.
Allouni then went to visit friends in the Palestine Hotel, where foreign journalists were based. For 9 years Al Jazeera Sport Channel was a runaway success.
This channel was spun off in and merged into a new and independent company, beIN Media Group. On November 3, , he was filming the aftermath of a roadside bomb attack on a US military convoy in Dialah. US forces arrested him, and repeated a popular refrain of US forces and politicians in Afghanistan and Iraq: the false claim that Al Jazeera has advance knowledge of attacks. Salah was made to endure horrendous torture in Abu Ghraib, as was one of his colleagues in the Al Jazeera Baghdad bureau, Suheib Badr Darwish, who was arrested on November 18, Salah was released a month later, on December 18, Darwish was released on January 25, The proceedings were ongoing as of The lawsuit of Al Jazeera journalist Salah Hasan and other Iraqi citizens against their abusers was still active in US courts as of Al Jazeera provided extensive coverage to the conflict in Darfur, Sudan, which erupted in February In December , security forces in Khartoum arrested Al Jazeera correspondent Islam Saleh on charges of "airing news containing false information and biased analysis aimed at smearing Sudan's image.
By January , Sudanese officials were considering the suspension of Al Jazeera's license to operate in Sudan. In February , Saleh was accused of "defaming Sudan by spreading fake news. They were all released later without charge, but the continuous stream of run-ins with the new authorities was indicative of the uncomfortable sitation. Atwar was one of Iraq's best-known journalists. She left Al Jazeera in February , and was assassinated three weeks later, while reporting in Samarra.
Maher Abdullah , one of the most well-known faces of Al Jazeera. Pictured here reporting live from Baghdad. Iraq's US-installed interim governing council again prohibited Al Jazeera from covering its activities for a month. On April 5, , US forces attempted to enter the Iraqi city of Fallujah, but were confronted by fierce resistance and suffered human and material losses.
Al Jazeera provided rolling coverage from Fallujah, which was subjected to the wrath of the US military after four American mercenaries working for Blackwater were killed there in March. Verbal attacks by US officials against Al Jazeera escalated. As the quagmire in Iraq broadened, media sources reported on supposed unpublished minutes of a discussion between US President George W.
David Blunkett, a former British interior minister, revealed in his memoirs published in October that, during the US-led invasion of Iraq in , he suggested to Blair that the British military should bomb the Al Jazeera television transmitter in Baghdad. On August 7, , the interim Iraqi government ordered a one-month closure of Al Jazeera's Baghdad bureau. The shutdown was extended indefinitely in September, and the bureau was sealed for more than six years.
The ban was finally lifted on March 3, Al Jazeera continued to work from Erbil, the capital of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, the autonomous region located in the northern part of the country.
A year later, the ban was lifted, and Al Jazeera resumed work in its Baghdad bureau. In , the Department was elevated in stature to become a Directorate - investigating matters of accuracy, fairness, balance and taste in Al Jazeera coverage, and making recommendations for continual improvement. Al Jazeera Media Training Centre was established on February 24, , with the dual mission of providing continual development for Al Jazeera journalists, and training journalists from all across the world.
It provides courses in all facets of journalism, media-related technology, the management of news organizations, and public communication.
Beginning and mid-career journalists hone their skills with some of the best trainers in the world here. Inside the auditorium of the Al Jazeera Training Institute.
A decade after its establishment, the center expanded to become the Al Jazeera Media Training Institute. The Institute has an extensive network of strategic partnerships with reputable media institutions and circles - all well-known on a local, regional and international level. The Institute continues to consolidate its relations and partnerships, and build new strategic partnerships with various media schools, in order to create a realistic media environment.
The Institute also provides media institutions with consultancies to help them develop their potential and attain their strategic plans.
Acting as the eyes and ears of the Arab world, Al Jazeera Mubasher was launched in early to give viewers real-time footage of global and regional events.
This is a complete distortion of the truth. The new Hamas statement says Israel has no right to exist. This is a case Mohamed Fahmy has brought, it's something he feels very strongly about against Al Jazeera.
I wasn't involved in that case, my view is that we need to focus very much on the trial and the allegations against us in Egypt Al Jazeera isn't on trial in Egypt, Qatar isn't on trial in Egypt - it's the three of us.
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