Minutemen object to al Jazeera interview

Washington Times:

The Minuteman Civil Defense Corps has canceled plans for an Al Jazeera news crew to interview volunteers patrolling the U.S.-Mexico border today after volunteers threatened to walk off their posts.
MCDC Sector Boss Connie Foust confirmed yesterday that the volunteers, many of them Vietnam, Korean and World War II veterans, refused to stay in camp if the Arab news organization, which some described as "anti-American," was given access to the site.
"They were very clear that this was something they would and could not condone and if it was going to go ahead anyway, despite their objection, they would pack up and leave," said Mrs. Foust during an interview at the group's remote desert campsite 50 miles southwest of Tucson.
More than 500 volunteers have been at the camp since the Minuteman border patrols began April 1 and, according to Mrs. Foust, more than 1,200 illegal aliens have been spotted crossing into the United States and were reported to the U.S. Border Patrol.
Al Jazeera had planned to interview and show the volunteers, many of whom are armed, at their border observation posts, Mrs. Foust said, in what she described as an interview and filming session approved by MCDC founder and president, Chris Simcox.

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Mr. Simcox has not been available for comment, but last year he refused a request by Al Jazeera for an interview and filming access to Minuteman patrols on the border. He questioned at the time whether the Arab network was seeking to help terrorists find new routes into the United States.
"I felt that allowing Al Jazeera to come along on our patrols or to assist them in their report was aiding and abetting the enemy, so we declined," he said in a June 2005 interview.

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The distrust of al Jazeera is not surprising. The network is a mouth piece to the voices hostile to US interest.