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Terrorist TV

Ralph Peters:

IMAGINE if, on D-Day, the Nazis had been al lowed to place camera teams on Omaha Beach — with our suffering soldiers forbidden to interfere. What if, on top of that, the Germans had invented American atrocities against French civilians — and our own officials defended their right to do so in the name of press freedom?

That's the situation with al-Jazeera in Iraq.

Staffed by embittered exiles and pan-Arabist ideologues — the last Nasserites — al-Jazeera is so consumed by hatred of America and the West that the network would rather see Iraq collapse into a bloodbath than permit the emergence of a democracy sponsored by Washington.

Despite his slaughter of a million-and-a-half Muslims in wars and campaigns of repression, al-Jazeera cheered for Saddam during Operation Iraqi Freedom, inventing Iraqi victories. Its staff reacted with horror to the fall of Baghdad — and suppressed film clips of celebrating Arabs.

Since then, al-Jazeera has glamorized Islamic terrorists (who, were they ever to come to power, would close al-Jazeera and butcher its staff) while portraying the Baathist campaign of murder and sabotage as a noble freedom struggle.

Al-Jazeera is so bigoted and morally debased that its reporters and producers delight in Coalition casualties, in dead Iraqi doctors and engineers and (above all) in dead Kurds.

Al-Jazeera not only encourages the assassination of American soldiers, but pulls out all the stops to excite anti-U.S. hatred throughout the Arabic-speaking world.

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Facts are never allowed to interfere.

When I toured al-Jazeera's studios in January, the lack of interest in objective reporting was startling. All the staff cared about was popularity and power. It was unreality TV at its worst. They bragged about their technology ("Better than the BBC!") and their influence, but never mentioned integrity, veracity or responsibility. It was the Nazi propaganda ministry on amphetamines.

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Al-Jazeera has become the most powerful ally of terror in the world — even more important than Saudi financiers. We're foolish if we do not recognize it as such.

We should not interfere if the new Iraqi government decides to place restrictions on al-Jazeera. Soon enough, we ourselves may need to recognize that "journalists" with deadly agendas should be classified as enemy combatants. If the War on Terror really is a war of ideas, we shouldn't let our enemies win with lies.