Al-Jazeera banned from Palestine

Gregg Carlstrom | July 15, 2009 11:47 AM | 0 | recommend (0) |   |      

Apparently it's not just the Bush administration that thinks Al-Jazeera is "enemy propaganda":

The Palestinian Authority banned Al-Jazeera television from operating in its territory on Wednesday and said it would take legal action over its broadcast of allegations against President Mahmoud Abbas.

The allegation in question is from Farouq al-Qadoumi, a Fatah member and longtime Abbas antagonist, who thinks the Palestinian president tried to assassinate Yasser Arafat in 2003.

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