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"If everybody watches CNN, what does CNN watch? Al-Jazeera" This is the advertisement of Al-Jazeera News channel, the CNN of the Middle East. Based in Qatar and used by Osama Bin Laden for his communication with the outside world, it is viewed by 40 million people in the Arabic world and some hundreds of thousand in the west. This documentary film was made in February, ahead of the attack on Iraq. It deals with the way Al-Jazeera was covering the war in Afghanistan, the bombings of their office in Kabul by US forces, preparing for the coming war and especially with their view on accurate and balanced news, challenging the United States with their principle of freedom of speech. The Arabic masses will perceive the war in Iraq with the eyes of Al-Jazeera.

Netherlands - 2003 - 47 mn - Betacam Digital - Colour

Director Hans Otten Camera Jacko Van't Hof Sound Charles Kersten Editing Rinze Schuurman

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