Guantánamo Inmate Says US Told Him To Spy On al-Jazeera

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US promised release from Guantanamo to an al-Jazeera cameraman if he were to spy on al-jazeera

Tuesday, November 22, 2005
Guardian: Documents Show US Views Al-Jazeera as Al Qaeda Front
The Guardian reports they have seen documents that show an al-Jazeera cameraman being held in Guantanamo Bay was offered to be released if he would spy on al-Jazeera which the US military apparently views to be an Al Qaeda front.......

Mr Hajj was arrested in December 2001 on the Afghan-Pakistani border while on assignment. His allegations are contained in notes of visits he received in Guantánamo in June this year from his lawyer Clive Stafford-Smith. The notes have been declassified by the US military.

Mr Hajj said that in one session of questioning he was offered US citizenship if he became a spy: "They have said, 'If you work with us, we will teach you journalism, we will get you a visa to live anywhere you want, we will even give you US nationality, we will protect you, we will give you money. We will help you write a book and then we will publish it. This will help make the al-Qaida people contact you, and work with you.'"Mr Hajj is a Sudanese national and is married with a five-year-old child. In the documents he also alleges that the US military threatened his family if he accepted release and then refused to spy on al-Jazeera. Al-Jazeera has angered the US by broadcasting recordings of Osama bin Laden threatening the west.

So we have claims that the US views al-Jazeera as basically the enemy. Perhaps the Mirror is on to something with their report that Bush wanted to bomb al-Jazeera.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/guantanamo/story/0,,1578199,00.html
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1. WTFFFFFFFFFFF!!!!!!!!!!!!

[shoelace414]

2. Al-Jazeera is terrorist, but Fox News is capitalism?

[CoffeeCat]

3. What I find most interesting...

..is "he also alleges that the US military threatened his family if he accepted release and then refused to spy on al-Jazeera."

It's official. Our government is a bunch of third-rate thug, Tony-Soprano-wannabees.

How classless and unAmerican. We're threatening people and their families.

I imagine this brand of thug terrorism happens daily in BushCo.

We are a nation run by heavy-handed goons with big guns. Great.

I never thought I'd see the day when American lost her shine.

We've become classless bullies.

It's official, America is Scott Farkas from "A Christmas Story"