Al Jazeera reporters detained

Haaretz is reporting that Israeli police have detained Al Jazeera crew members three times in the last 24 hours, largely on suspicion that Al Jazeera broadcasts about Hezbollah hits on Haifa were assisting Hezbollah guerillas with their rocket aim. But since other journalists and stations were also reporting from the locations of those and other ...

Haaretz is reporting that Israeli police have detained Al Jazeera crew members three times in the last 24 hours, largely on suspicion that Al Jazeera broadcasts about Hezbollah hits on Haifa were assisting Hezbollah guerillas with their rocket aim. But since other journalists and stations were also reporting from the locations of those and other rocket hits, similar images were being aired on other channels. Doesn't it seem a tad unfair to detain Al Jazeera journalists for airing the same images as everyone else? For more, Hugh Miles debunks the Al Jazeera-terrorism connection (and the charge that the station is anti-Semitic) in the current issue of FP.

Haaretz is reporting that Israeli police have detained Al Jazeera crew members three times in the last 24 hours, largely on suspicion that Al Jazeera broadcasts about Hezbollah hits on Haifa were assisting Hezbollah guerillas with their rocket aim. But since other journalists and stations were also reporting from the locations of those and other rocket hits, similar images were being aired on other channels. Doesn't it seem a tad unfair to detain Al Jazeera journalists for airing the same images as everyone else? For more, Hugh Miles debunks the Al Jazeera-terrorism connection (and the charge that the station is anti-Semitic) in the current issue of FP.

Carolyn O'Hara is a senior editor at Foreign Policy.

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