Freedom of Press/ Iraq ..bush* to go on his Pentagon owned Iraq TV station

ya gotta love this type of freedom: Al-Iraqiya. Fox of Iraq

is this florida based "Harris, Inc" owned by whom i think it might be???? http://www.govcomm.harris.com/

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0504-03.htm

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Zayer had sought to break Al-Sabah away from the Iraqi Media Network, which groups the paper, Al-Iraqiya and a number of radio station and is run by Harris Inc., a Florida-based communications company that won a $96 million Pentagon contract in January to develop the media.
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Editor-In-Chief of US-Funded Iraqi Newspaper Quits, Complaining of American Control

BAGHDAD, Iraq - The head of a U.S.-funded Iraqi newspaper quit and said Monday he was taking almost his entire staff with him because of American interference in the publication.

On a front-page editorial of the Al-Sabah newspaper, editor-in-chief Ismail Zayer said he and his staff were "celebrating the end of a nightmare we have suffered from for months ... We want independence. They (the Americans) refuse."

Al-Sabah was set up by U.S. officials with funding from the Pentagon soon after the fall of Saddam Hussein last year. Since its first issue in July, many Iraqis have considered it the mouthpiece of the U.S.-led coalition, along with the U.S.-funded television station Al-Iraqiya.

Zayer said almost the entire staff left the paper along with him and that they were launching a new paper called Al-Sabah Al-Jedid ("The New Morning"), which would begin publishing Tuesday.


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the man with the least amount of credibility in the arab world is going to go onto a television station with even less credibility and that is unwatched by the majority of arabs to apologize for... mistakes that I am sure he wil claim he isn't responsable for. (since we al know Shrub can't think of any mistakes..)

Gee, wonder how this will pan out?

No I don't.

...I guess we will have to change the language in Iraq, and perhaps the entire ME, to English so they can be indoctrinated.