BREAKING NEWS Six Al Jazeera Reporters Arrested in Egypt

[Hissyspit]

Source: Al Jazeera

Al Jazeera reporters held in Egypt

Six journalists arrested in Cairo as authorities clampdown on news network amid ongoing mass protests.

Last Modified: 31 Jan 2011 12:55 GMT

Six Al Jazeera English journalists have been arrested in Egypt following a clampdown on the news network.

The move comes a day after it was told to shut down its operations in the country and saw its signal to some parts of the Middle East cut.

It comes as Hosni Mubarak, the president, unveiled a new cabinet in a bid to quell days of protest against him and the government.

A new finance and a new interior minister were appointed Monday, along with a new trade and deputy prime minister.
The defence minister and foreign ministers remained the same.

Read more: http://english.aljazeera.net

[Turborama]

1. K&R Damn! They're really going for them now.

Must watch TV, as always.

[OKNancy]

2. updated to six n/t

[dipsydoodle]

3. Military

as in Army or as in Central Security Force ? I suspect the latter.

[Turborama]

4. Their camera was stolen, too.

[florida08]

5. they have been released but cameras not

[Turborama]

11. And their phones, laptops etc have been kept too.

I guess it's onto plan C, now.

The DC Bureau Chief seems quite confident they'll be able to broadcast from there still. I uploaded the interview here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zqjx3g0ZuLY

And added it to the videos forum here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x549123

[florida08]

15. thanks TURBOrama

You must be running on caffeine and anticipation..lol..great vids

[Turborama]

16. And adrenaline

About 20 hours sleep in the past week, lol.

Glad you liked the vids. Thanks for the thanks! :hi:

[frankieT]

6. Al Jazeera became the biggest MSM against the POWERS

in place (Western-Israeli-Saudi axis) in a matter of years. They deserve praise and respect. Big western media outlets should be ashamed of becoming the puppets they are.

[florida08]

7. Borowits just said as much

BorowitzReport Andy Borowitz
As the crisis in #Egypt deepens, stay tuned to @CNN for up-to-the-minute reports about Charlie Sheen.

[Catherina]

8. Al Jazeera is the equivalent of Arabic FOX. Their reporters in Egypt

had a little revolution of their own. More power to them. I'm glad to hear they were released.

Shake in your fucking boots Western leaders. The lion of Arab unity just woke up and roared.

[aquart]

13. "Arab unity"?

LOL! Well, that's one way of looking at it.

[Turborama]

17. "Arabic FOX"? Are you sure that's what you meant, Catherina?

It's nothing like Faux.

http://iwantaje.com/code

[florida08]

9. Dan Nolan from AJ

@nolanjazeera
Dan Nolan
We're okay, they held us for 3 hours, we've been released, took cameras, laptops and phones #Egypt #Jan25

[olegramps]

10. O'Reilly will be ecstatically happy.

The FOX resident nitwit said that El Jazeera was responsible for fomenting the revolts. The FOX so-called reporters are so damn ignorant that they showed a map in which they labeled Iraq as being Egypt. I wonder how he is coming along with that Tide Thingy.

[aquart]

12. It ain't gonna work, Mubarak.

He needs to start negotiating to make sure they don't seize his bank accounts.

[riverwalker]

14. several tweets say State Dept. intervened for release

We have been told that following a request from The State Department, @StateDept, Al Jazeera's journalists have been released. #Jan25 #Egypt 42 minutes ago via web Retweeted by 62 people

AlecJRoss

[Turborama]

18. US calls for release of Al-Jazeera reporters in Egypt

Source: AFP

WASHINGTON — The United States expressed concern Monday about Egypt's shutdown of Al-Jazeera and called for the release of six of the regional news channel's reporters who had been arrested there.

"We are concerned by the shutdown of Al-Jazeera in Egypt and arrest of its correspondents. Egypt must be open and the reporters released," State Department spokesman Philip Crowley said in a message on his Twitter account.

Egyptian police on Monday arrested six foreign journalists working for Al-Jazeera English news channel at their Cairo hotel after authorities forbade them covering anti-regime protests, the channel said.

The arrested Al-Jazeera employees are Australian, Portuguese and British, a spokesman for the channel told AFP.

The arrests came after Egypt on Sunday moved to shut down Al-Jazeera's coverage of mass protests against President Hosni Mubarak's regime, but the pan-Arab broadcaster vowed that it would not be silenced.

Read more: http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5g8-Ob_pWSTGixh4DfXeW_uFJ3cPA?

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AWESOME!

Must be because http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=439&topic_id=307418&mesg_id=307418">they are relying on AJ English's superb coverage to keep up with what's going on.

I hope this all leads up to cable operators finally providing AJE all across America in the not too distant future.

[dipsydoodle]

19. They've already been released.

but their camera equipment was confiscated. Saw that live on Al Jazz E. an hour or so ago.

[Turborama]

20. I know, I wish I could change the tense to "called" in the title

But you know what those rules are like. ;-)

The important thing is that the US government intervened to help out.

:hi:

[dipsydoodle]

21. I doubt they influenced the decision.

Did you see it on Al Jazz ? They'd been watched to see which windows they were using I guess by comparison with the shots/views they broadcast. Made me laugh the way the girl just changed her clothes and strolled out to miss them.

[Turborama]

22. Well, at least they tried. Which is a total contrast to what the Bush junta used to do to them

See here for a history of this that I wrote, if you haven't read it already: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=389&topic_id=6848728

I missed that. I hope they upload it to YouTube. Sounds hilarious.

[florida08]

23. well a big hell yeah

for being on the right side for a change..it's viewership has grown by leaps and bounds. Wouldn't it be a hoot if it overtook Fake News..lol

Why Al Jazeera Owns Internet TV’s Egypt Coverage
http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/gigaom/big-tech/video_why_al_jazeera_owns_internet_tv_e2_80_99s_egypt_coverage.html

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[riverwalker]

25. this is why they were arrested

according to one of the journalists arrested and then released, (Dan Nolan http://twitter.com/nolanjazeera) the police specifically mentioned this broadcast, of the bodies in the morgue. Reminds me of Iraq war, when US media were too afraid to show bodies of US soldiers returning. Al Jazeera makes our media look like frightened children.


http://www.youtube.com/aljazeeraenglish#p/u/8/XzLBCV-cwjg

[Hissyspit]

26. Thanks.