If Al-Jazeera reaches English-speaking Arabs and Muslims in
the U.S. with its incendiary messages, we could see suicide
bombings on the streets of America and the development of
more al Qaeda cells plotting 9/11-type terrorist attacks.
America’s Survival, Inc.
Cliff Kincaid, President
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www.usasurvival.org
Dr. Judea Pearl, father of slain journalist Daniel Pearl, has informed us, in regard to this
controversy, “I support your call to investigate the impact of this transaction.” His
statement reads as follows:
“A decade of watching over its programs has left me no doubt: Al Jazeera
is the main propaganda machine of the Muslim Brotherhood. Posing as a
benign alternative communication medium, Al Jazeera choreographs a
world stage in which the West is a perennial villain, Hamas is the ultimate
role model, and entire societies are dehumanized to a lower form of life,
stripped of any mark of dignity or empathy. While refraining from explicit
incitement to violence, Al Jazeera weaves the ideological structure and
combustible angers from which Jihadi recruits eventually emerge.”
In a statement in 2011, he said:
“With the growing number of social misfits in society, and the growing
confusion between ‘information’ and deception in the news media, the
danger of fueling combustible anger in some viewers cannot be ignored,
especially when pumped subliminally by well-respected Western anchors.
Considering our current concern over the increase of home-grown
terrorism incidents, this danger is not to be taken lightly.”
In Crescent Moon Rising (Prometheus Books), journalist Paul L. Williams examines the
phenomenal rise of Islam in the United States and discusses its implications. He
addresses a number of disturbing concerns about some aspects of the Muslim
presence in America. These include “the connections between many American
mosques with Saudi benefactors who promote an ultra-orthodox, anti-Western agenda;
the existence of Muslim paramilitary training grounds recruiting ex-convicts; and the ties
of even self-described moderate Muslim spokespersons with more politically radical
elements.”
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Film footage of captured terrorists in Iraq shows they came to kill Americans because of
Al Jazeera. NBC News reporter Lisa Myers said: “Why do they go? Saudis captured in
Iraq say it's because of pictures on Arab television network Al-Jazeera. ’We saw the
Americans massacring the Iraqis,’ says one Saudi prisoner in Iraq via translation.
The same thing can happen on the streets of America.
9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who is now in Guantanamo but had been
scheduled by the Obama Administration for a civilian trial in the U.S., was protected by
the government of Qatar, which funds Al Jazeera. Mohammed boasted of the murder of
Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, saying that he “decapitated with my
blessed right hand the head of the American Jew, Daniel Pearl, in the city of Karachi,
Pakistan. For those who would like to confirm, there are pictures of me on the Internet
holding his head.”
The new film, “Zero Dark Thirty,” mentions that the courier who eventually led the CIA to
bin Laden was located in Pakistan near an Al Jazeera office in order to get the terrorist
leader’s videotapes to the channel for worldwide distribution. This captures an essential
truth about Al Qaeda – its use of Al-Jazeera as a weapon of war. CNN reports that a
document found in bin Laden’s compound after his death referred to a meeting with the
Al-Jazeera bureau chief in Pakistan. A still photograph from an undated video released
by the Department of Defense of the materials from the compound showed bin Laden
watching television and holding a remote control. Al-Jazeera was his favorite television
channel until the time of his death.
What would the greatest generation say about “Al Jazeera America?”
The taking over of an American cable
channel by Al-Jazeera is tantamount to
giving American broadcast facilities
during World War II to “Tokyo Rose”
and “Axis Sally.” Tokyo Rose was the
name given to an American
broadcasting on Tokyo shortwave
radio, while Axis Sally was “The
American voice of Nazi Germany” and
was broadcasting on Berlin radio. Both
of them were apprehended and
prosecuted for treason and sent to
prison.
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Al Jazeera is a front for Al Qaeda and the Muslim
Brotherhood and supports the Mali terrorists who kidnap
and kill Americans
Al Manar, the television station associated
with the Hezbollah terrorist group, has been
banned from the U.S. Al Jazeera has
functioned as a front of al Qaeda. Congress
should examine Al Jazeera as a global
terrorist entity which serves as a mouthpiece
for the Muslim Brotherhood and al Qaeda.
The State Department’s own human rights
report says that “the government [Qatar]
exercised editorial and programmatic control
of the channel through funding and selection
of the station’s management.” The French
media openly report that Qatar is supporting
the Mali terrorists with various kinds of
assistance.
The Al Jazeera story, headlined, “Mali: The
‘gentle’ face of al-Qaeda,” is a case in point of
how the channel serves the regime. In the
channel’s “exclusive report from inside
northern Mali,” Al Jazeera English reporter
May Ying Welsh said the terrorists “are
playing the role of humanitarians” by
providing food to local people. While the word
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“gentle” is in quotes, as if it comes from some objective observer, the story is
sympathetic to the terrorists and critical of the “foreign intervention” that is needed to
stop them. One of the photos is captioned, “The Mujahideen distribute charity in
hospitals and slums.” Another is captioned, “Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb calls for
preserving the territorial integrity of Mali.”
In another case, the UK Guardian reported that, “Al-Jazeera's editorial independence
has been called into question after its director of news stepped in to ensure a speech
made by Qatar's emir to the UN led its English channel's coverage of the debate on
Syrian intervention.”
What American Muslims and radicals will not see
on “Al Jazeera America.”
The network’s mantra is, “The heart of the story. Every Angle. Every Side.” But that’s
less believable now because of the failure of the channel to cover the attack on CBS
News reporter Lara Logan while covering the Muslim Brotherhood revolution in Egypt.
Jonathan Capehart of The Washington Post, a leading liberal commentator, said the
silence of the network on this matter was “deafening.” .
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The assault on Logan occurred on February 11, 2011. “She was surrounded and
suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a
group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers,” CBS reported. “Logan left the
hospital on Wed. Feb. 16, to recover in her Washington, D.C. home. One blogger
commented, “The lack of coverage is not only shocking, it is unethical. After having
reported and given air time to the situation facing its reporters, it appears Al Jazeera
was not willing to give the same due time to a rival reporter, one enduring arguably a
worse experience. It is unacceptable that the Qatar-based network remained, and
remains, silent.” The blogger added, “By not covering the situation, Al Jazeera made a
political decision. They seemed to gloss over the story for fear it would tarnish the
Egyptian Revolution.” That revolution was supported by Qatar.
Al Jazeera Supports the Radical Muslim and Far-left
Campaign to Free “Lady al Qaeda” Aafia Siddiqui.
Siddiqui married 9/11 planner Ammar al-Baluchi and carried on research on biological
weapons at his request. She was convicted of attempted murder and received a 86-year
prison sentence for shooting at FBI agents and soldiers after her arrest in Afghanistan.
Her attorney, Linda Moreno, represented terrorist finacier Sami al-Arian and the
chairman of the board of the Holy Land Foundation in the Hamas terror finance case.
She spoke at the 2010 16th annual fundraising banquet of the San Francisco Bay Area
chapter of Hamas-linked CAIR.
Al-Mulathameen Brigade leader Moktar Belmoktar (AKA Khalid Abu al-Abbas)
demanded the cessation of French intervention in Mali and offered to exchange
American hostages for Omar Abdul Rahman and Aafia Siddiqui in a video
obtained by Sahara Media, a Mauritania-based news organization.
In the U.S., the movement by American Muslims to free captured terrorist Siddiqui
includes Ramsey Clark, the Workers World Party (WWP) and the Party for Socialism
and Liberation. Some members of the former left to form the latter. They operate front
organizations such as ANSWER (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism) and the
International Action Center. The Workers World Party had been investigated by the
House Internal Security Committee for its support of the North Korean regime and Arab
terrorist groups.
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Communists and radical Muslims saluted Ramsey Clark’s Anti-American Agenda.
January 12, 2012. Note the “From Behind the Wall” section includes terrorist attorney
Lynne Stewart, who represented the “Blind Sheikh,” and convicted terrorist financier
Sami Al-Arian.
The American Muslim Task Force (AMT), a coalition of major Muslim Brotherhood
groups, supports the “Free Aafia” movement. Al Jazeera sends American
Muslims the incendiary message that the imprisonment of terrorists like Siddiqui
is a violation of human rights that must be rectified on the streets of America and
Pakistan.
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Mamoun Fandy, an expert on the Arab media, has called Al-Jazeera “the Muslim
Brotherhood channel.” His book, Uncivil War of Words: Media and Politics in the Arab
World, notes that Al-Jazeera glorified Muslim Brotherhood founder Hassan Al-Bannah,
in a two-part documentary in 2006. In 2003 testimony to the National Commission on
Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, he said Al-Jazeera’s reporters and
correspondents constitute a “who is who in the rank and file of the Brotherhood.”
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Spanish-born Al Jazeera correspondent
Tayseer Alouni, who interviewed bin Laden,
was actually imprisoned in Spain for being an
agent of al-Qaeda. He carried funds for the
terrorist group. Al Jazeera paid for his defense.
Alouni's trial and the other 34 accused was the
first to establish a direct link between an AlQaeda cell in Spain and the planning and
execution of the 9/11 attacks on U.S.
Alouni
"In January 1996," as noted by Associated Press, "the U.S.
government tried to have Mohammed detained in Qatar and
turned over to U.S. authorities, but was unsuccessful…By the
middle of the year, the Qatari government reported it had lost
track of him, sparking concerns that someone in the government
had tipped him off." He fled to Pakistan, where he was captured in
2003.
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Big Oil Backs Al Jazeera and Qatar
U.S.-Qatar Business Council Founding Members
Al Jazeera
Qatar Airways
Chevron Corporation
Qatari Diar
ConocoPhillips
Qatar Petroleum
ExxonMobil
RasGas
Occidental Petroleum Corporation
Executive Members
ATCS International
Industry Arabic
Starwood Hotels and Resorts
Worldwide
The Boeing Company
Latham & Watkins
Tanween
Booz Allen Hamilton
Lockheed Martin
Target
Brown Brothers Harriman & Co
Magellan Development
Trags Trading & Agency Services
Ltd.
Venture Gulf Group
AFS
Brown Lloyd James*
Parsons
Al-Anabi Racing Team
Colony Capital
Pat USA
Al-Faisal Holding
Doha Bank
Raytheon
AMIDEAST
Fluor Corporation
SAH Global
Archstone
IBM
St. Regis Doha
* In 2006, Brown Lloyd James coordinated the launch of Al Jazeera English in the
United States.
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Qatar’s lobbying firms in Washington, D.C. have included BGR
(Barbour Griffith & Rogers), which includes former Republican
chairman Haley Barbour, and Fenton Communications, which
represented George Soros.
Qatar gave $1 million to $5 million to the Clinton Foundation.
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Homeland Security Committee Chairman McCaul
asked for hearings on Al Jazeera
Signers:
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Cliff Kincaid, President, America's Survival, Inc., Director of the AIM Center for
Investigative Journalism
Pamela Geller, President, American Freedom Defense Initiative
Daniel Pipes, President, Middle East Forum
L. Brent Bozell, Founder and President, Media Research Center
Ted Baehr, Chairman, Christian Film & Television Commission
Jerry Kenney, President, Kenney Broadcasting Corporation
Frank J. Gaffney, Jr., President, Center for Security Policy
Melissa Ortiz, founder, Able Americans
Judson Phillips, founder, Tea Party Nation
Larry Cirignano, President, Faithful Catholic Citizens
Richard and Susan Falknor, Publishers, Blue Ridge Forum
C. Preston Noell III, President, Tradition, Family, Property, Inc.
Ryan Mauro, National Security Analyst, RadicalIslam.org.
Wes Vernon, Analyst, RenewAmerica.com.
Kerry Kelley, Veteran and Journalist, Jacksonville, Florida
Steven Emerson, Executive Director, The Investigative Project on Terrorism
Sandy Rios, Vice President, Family Pac Federal
Paul Caprio, Chairman, Patriotic Veterans
Tim Wildmon, President, American Family Association
Ken Timmerman, President & CEO, Foundation for Democracy in Iran
Dr. Steven Moysey, Counter Terrorism and Crisis Negotiation Specialist
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Christopher Holton, Vice President for Outreach, Center for Security Policy, DirectorDivest Terror Initiative and Shariah Risk Due Diligence Project
Joseph A. Klein, attorney and United Nations correspondent
Tom Berrigan, Covenant Keepers of America, Inc.
Tom Trento, Director, The United West
Sarah Stern, Founder and President, the Endowment for Middle East Truth (EMET).
Alyssa A. Lappen, investigative journalist
Pamela Hall, Journalist-Blogger
Richard Braun, independent consultant
Frank Ruddy
Larry Grathwohl, author, Bringing Down America
Tina Trent, PhD.
Mary Grabar, PhD.
Lee Kaplan, Executive Director, Defending America for Knowledge and Action
(DAFKA.org)
Joseph F. Connor, 9/11 family member, cousin of Steven Schlag
Walid Shoebat, Arabic Research Analyst, Founder of the Shoebat Foundation
Ben Barrack, radio talk show host
Lynn Woolley, syndicated radio talk show host, Texas
Suzanne Shattuck, The United West
Demand that the House of
Representatives Conduct Oversight
of Illegal Al Jazeera – Al Gore Deal
The Al Jazeera purchase of Current TV is:
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Subject to review under the CFIUS (Committee on Foreign
Investment in the U.S.) review process. Under this process, a
Chinese entity had to be approved to buy the AMC movie
threater chain. Al Jazeera by-passed the process.
Al Jazeera has evaded the law requiring federal approval for foreign
investments in America that have national security implications.
Al Jazeera has issued a 26-page document in which it claims that the deal
“does not involve any federal communications licenses or other assets
subject to FCC approval.” Again, this is deceptive, since broadcaster Jerry
Kenney has filed an FCC complaint about Al Jazeera programming being
illegally aired on taxpayer-supported public TV stations. Al Jazeera also
claims that “None of the statutory factors that trigger a CFIUS review—e.g.,
production of important technology, production of military goods, operation of
critical infrastructure—are implicated in this transaction.”
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CFIUS is the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States and is
under the jurisdiction of the Treasury Department. It is described as “an interagency committee authorized to review transactions that could result in
control of a U.S. business by a foreign person (‘covered transactions’), in
order to determine the effect of such transactions on the national security of
the United States.”
What “covered transactions” come under the review of CFIUS? We have
learned through press reports that CFIUS approved China-based Dalian
Wanda Group Corporation’s purchase of AMC Entertainment, one of the
nation’s largest movie theater chains.
The CFIUS process is secretive but we learned about this approval from the
Chinese entity, which announced it in a press release in July of 2012.
The writer Zach Coleman notes, “News broadcasting is more politically
sensitive than cinema operation and Al Jazeera is a much more controversial
acquirer than Dalian Wanda, which was previously unknown in the US.”
This is precisely the case. Yet, Al Jazeera claims it had no obligation to obey
the law in this case.
In 2006, Congress protested the Dubai Ports deal, in which a Dubai-owned
company had sought to take over operations at U.S. ports. Then-Senator
Barack Obama said:
“Over four years after the worst terrorist attack in our history, not only are
we failing to inspect 95% of the cargo that arrives at U.S. ports, but now
we’re allowing our port security to be outsourced to foreign governments.
Clearly, more time should have been spent investigating this deal and
consulting with homeland security experts and local officials. I support my
colleagues on both sides of the aisle who are seeking a full review of this
deal.”
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Commentator Ben Barrack says:
When it comes to the Dubai Ports deal and the sale of Current TV to Al
Jazeera, there is one primary difference when it comes to American
political leaders; Bush received bi-partisan opposition and Gore is
receiving only conservative opposition.
Other issues include:
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Why have taxpayer-funded public broadcasting facilities, in violation of Federal
Communication Commission (FCC) rules, turned over their facilities to foreign
propaganda channels Al Jazeera, Russia Today, and others?
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Why has the Department of Justice not enforced the law requiring that foreign
television channels operating on American soil label their broadcasts as foreign
propaganda under the Foreign Agents Registration Act?
Chinese Buy Movie Theater Chain and Goes Through CFIUS
but Al Jazeera is Above the Law
If the Chinese buying a movie theater chain comes under the auspices of CFIUS, then a
takeover of a cable channel reaching 40-50 million homes has to qualify as well.
Jerry Kenney, president of Kenney Broadcasting, says, “It’s even more insidious in the
case of Al Jazeera because cable companies bundle these packages of channels and
deliver them to your home, whether you watch them or not. You end up subsidizing the
channels you don’t want. Current TV was actually getting a fee from the cable operators
to run the channel. So subscribers who pay for that package will end up paying money
to Al Jazeera for its new channel.”
In the case of a movie theater, Kenney points out, “you have to make an effort to get out
of your home to drive to a theater to watch a movie. With Al Jazeera, you will be forced
to pay for it coming into your own home, whether you want it or not.”
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Current TV (Current Media) Directors and named executive
officers include Richard C. Blum, husband of Senator Diane
Feinstein. (2008 SEC filing)
Albert Gore, Jr.
Joel Hyatt
Mark Goldman
Paul Hollerbach
David Neuman
Richard C. Blum
Ronald Burkle
Edward Renwick
Mark Rosenthal
Orville Schell
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Shares owned by Albert Gore, Jr., Karenna Gore Schiff, owned by Kristin Carlson Gore, Sarah
LaFon Gore and Albert Gore III.
Richard C. Blum is an American investment banker and the husband of United States Senator
from California Dianne FeinsteinShares owned by Blum Strategic Partners II, L.P. and shares
owned by BCP AIV, L.P. The sole general partner of Blum Strategic Partners II, L.P. and BCP
AIV, L.P. is Blum Strategic GP II, L.L.C. Richard C. Blum is a managing member of Blum
Strategic GP II, L.L.C. Mr. Blum disclaims beneficial interest in all of these shares, except to the
extent of his proportionate pecuniary interest in this entity. The business address of Blum
Strategic Partners II, L.P., Blum Strategic GP II, L.L.C. and Richard C. Blum is 909 Montgomery
Street, Suite 400, San Francisco, California 94133.
Name of lenders and principal amounts
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Blum Strategic Partners II, L.P. $2,752,284
BCP AIV, L.P. 1,467,716
Albert Gore, Jr 2,000,000
Hyatt Trust (Jared Hyatt)1,000,000
Hyatt Trust (Zachary Hyatt) 1,000,000
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Entities affiliated with Blum Capital Partners, L.P
Yucaipa Corporate Initiatives Fund I, L.P
DirectTV, Inc.
Comcast CTV Holdings, LLC
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Current TV is available on the following services:
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Comcast - Channel 107 most markets 215-286-8960
Brian L. Roberts, Chairman and CEO of Comcast Corporation
Comcast Center
1701 JFK Boulevard
Philadelphia, PA 19103
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DirecTV - Channel 358 nationwide 310-535-5000
Michael White
Chairman, President & CEO
DIRECTV
2230 E. Imperial Hwy
El Segundo, CA 90245
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Dish Network - Channel 215 nationwide 303-723-1000
Charles W. Ergen, Chairman of the Board
Dish Network
9601 South Meridian Boulevard
Englewood, Colorado 80112
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Verizon FiOS - Channel 192 nationwide 212-395-1000
Lowell C. McAdam
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Verizon
140 West Street
New York, NY 10007
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AT&T U-verse - Channel 189 nationwide
Randall L. Stephenson
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
AT&T Inc.
208 S. Akard Street
Dallas, TX 75202
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210-821-4105
A March 29, 2011 Congressional Research Service report says
Congress has approved a total of $1.283 trillion for “military operations,
base security, reconstruction, foreign aid, embassy costs, and veterans’
health care for the three operations initiated since the 9/11 attacks.”
Why does Jihadist-supporting Qatar want access to the U.S. media market?
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