------------------------- Via Workers World News Service Reprinted from the Nov. 22, 2001 issue of Workers World newspaper -------------------------
THE SILENCER The Pentagon has admitted that it silenced the Arab television service Al-Jazeera by blowing up its Kabul office with a missile on Nov. 12. Just minutes before the bomb hit, Tasir Alouni, Kabul correspondent of what the Associated Press describes as "the Arab world's most respected television channel," was abducted and beaten by unknown assailants. Could there possibly be a more blatant act of suppression of the press? Yet this is exactly what the U.S. did in the last war, when it destroyed Belgrade television with a direct bomb hit. Now the Bush administration is spared the embarrassment of people around the world seeing the real pictures of the war: dead bodies of women, children and men, casualties of its terror bombing campaign. - END - (Copyright Workers World Service: Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this document, but changing it is not allowed. For more information contact Workers World, 55 W. 17 St., NY, NY 10011; via e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For subscription info send message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.workers.org) ------------------ This message is sent to you by Workers World News Service. To subscribe, E-mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Send administrative queries to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
