This week Inside Iraq examines media coverage of the Iraq war and its influence.
Al Jazeera
Hamas suicide attack in Gaza (video)
April 19, 2008
The military wing of Hamas has launched a rare suicide attack on Gaza’s border with Israel.It came as a controversial meeting between Hamas officials and Jimmy Carter, the former US president, was concluding in Syria.At least 13 Israeli soldiers were wounded, and three Palestinian fighters were reported to be killed.
Al Jazeera’s Jacky Rowland reports from Gaza.
Carter to meet Hamas + Shunned by Israel, Hamas’ Hero (videos)
Inside Story, with presenter Imran Garda, previews the Carter-Meshaal meeting.
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MIR: Carter – Shunned by Israel, Hamas’ Hero
Former President Carter meets with Hamas and outrages Israeli officials. But why did he make Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas uncomfortable? And is he on a mission for peace or mission impossible?
Answers to these questions and more on Link TV ‘s Mosaic Intelligence Report.
For more information, visit http://www.linktv.org/mosaic
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Uri Avnery congratulates Carter for decision to meet with Hamas leaders
Reuters cameraman talks to Al Jazeera + Deadly day in Gaza
Reuters cameraman talks to Al Jazeera – 17 April 08
Fadl Shanaa, who was killed by an Israeli missile on April 16, spoke to Al Jazeera in February.
He was interviewed as part of a series called ‘Shoot the Messenger’ that focuses on the increased dangers that journalists are facing in covering the story. He had survived an Israeli air raid in 2006.
Deadly day in Gaza – 17 Apr 2008
Al Jazeera’s Jacky Rowland reports from Gaza where a Reuters cameraman, Fadl Shanaa, was killed by Israeli troops.
Shanaa was covering the most recent of clashes that resulted in 17 other Palestinian deaths. Ehud Olmert, Israel’s prime minister, said that Hamas was “responsible” for the violence.
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Palestinians killed in Israeli raids into Gaza + Israeli Torture (vids; over 18 only)
Palestinians killed in Israeli raids into Gaza + Israeli Torture (vids; over 18 only)
Warning
This video may contain images depicting the reality and horror of war/violence and should only be viewed by a mature audience.
More than 20 Palestinians have died in the Gaza Strip as Israel unleashed military strikes and troops moved into the centre of the territory.
A journalist was also killed in the attacks.
It makes 16 April one of the deadliest days in Gaza for weeks.
But army leaders say the operations were routine and aimed against fighters suspected of launching rockets into southern Israel.
Al Jazeera’s Jacky Rowland reports from Jerusalem.
Inside Iraq Special – Iraq five years on (videos)
Inside Iraq Special – Iraq five years on
Inside Iraq goes to the heart of the Arab world to discuss the future of Iraq.
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Jimmy Carter to meet Khalid Meshaal in Syria (video)
Al Jazeera has learned that former U.S. President Jimmy Carter is planning to meet with Hamas leader Khalid Meshaal in Damascus.
As Clayton Swisher reports, it’s a visit that won’t win him many friends back home.
Inside Story: A divided NATO (video)
Imran Garda of Inside Story examines what NATO will do to make its mission a success.
Sadr orders fighters to stand down
Al Jazeera English
SUNDAY, MARCH 30, 2008
17:03 MECCA TIME, 14:03 GMT
Muqtada al-Sadr, an Iraqi Shia leader, has ordered his fighters to withdraw from the streets of several provinces, six days after Iraqi forces mounted a crackdown against Shia armed groups.
“We want the Iraqi people to stop this bloodshed and maintain Iraq’s independence and stability,” al-Sadr said in a statement released on Sunday.
“For that we have decided to withdraw [al-Sadr’s Mahdi Army] from the streets of Basra and all other provinces.”
At least 270 people have reportedly died since an Iraqi military crackdown in Basra sparked fighting across the country.
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Al-Sadr calls for support of Arab states (video)
Ihe battle for control of southern Iraq is continuing for a fifth day.
In one of the latest offensives, eight people died, including two women and a child, in an air raid.
Meanwhile a witness in Baghdad has told Al Jazeera he saw up to 40 Iraqi army and police surrendering their weapons to supporters of the Mahdi Army.
Its leader, Muqtada Al-Sadr, is calling on Arab nations to support his fight against US forces in Iraq.
James Bays reports from Baghdad.
Talk to Jazeera: Evo Morales (videos)
Evo Morales, the Bolivian president, talks exclusively to Al Jazeera’s Latin America editor Lucia Newman about his country’s relations with the US and his good friend Hugo Chavez. Added: March 27, 2008
Riz Khan: Phil Donahue + “Body of War” with Phil Donahue (videos)
Updated: added another video
We talk to Phil Donahue, the founder and star of the first talk show in the US. AlJazeeraEnglish on Mar 27, 2008
Riz Khan – Mind of a ‘terrorist’
Riz Khan speaks with Jerrold Post and Louise Richardson, two people who have delved into the minds of “terrorists” and what motivates their behaviour.
Al Jazeera’s ‘The War In America’ (videos; Iraq)
Five years on from the start of the war in Iraq Al Jazeera visited the USA to guage public mood towards the conflict.
In a special four part documentary we talked to, among others, grieving mothers, politicians and the man widely regarded as coining the phrase “axis of evil”, who still supports the war.
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Al-Hajj’s Guantanamo cartoon banned
Al Jazeera English
TUESDAY, MARCH 18, 2008
18:22 MECCA TIME, 15:22 GMT
The US army has banned the publication of four cartoons drawn by Sami al-Hajj, the Al Jazeera cameraman held in the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay, according to his lawyer.
The pieces, called Sketches of My Nightmare, include a drawing depicting al-Hajj, who has been on hunger strike for eight months, as a skeleton being force fed by US guards.
The drawings were submitted to the military censor but they would not permit their release.
However, detailed descriptions of the sketches were allowed through the censorship process and Lewis Peake, a political cartoonist, was able to recreate one entitled Scream for Freedom.
…continued and recreated cartoon
h/t: ICH
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