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  • March 2008

    • Qatar Navigates Persian Gulf Minefield

      Bloomberg  |  Mar 5, 08 7:00 PM CST

      Qatar Navigates Persian Gulf Minefield

      (Newser) - The challenges of being Qatar, a peninsular nation bordering Saudi Arabia in the Persian Gulf, could be a hint of the diplomatic discourse to come, Bloomberg reports. The emirate cannily attends to the demands of its Saudi and Iranian neighbors, and it hosts US military forces; it also has learned to use its natural-gas wealth to avoid favoring one side exclusively. More »

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      Iran  • Saudi Arabia  • Hezbollah  • Persian Gulf  • natural gas  • Qatar  • Al Jazeera  • Sheikh Hamad bin Jasim bin Jaber al-Thani

  • November 2007

    • US Should Tune In to Al Jazeera

      New York Times  |  Nov 12, 07 9:56 PM CST

      US Should Tune In to Al Jazeera

      (Newser) - Year-old Al Jazeera English is only in a handful of US markets—a fact that “amounts to self-destructive blindness,” says the Times ’ Roger Cohen. By not watching the channel Donald Rumsfeld called “vicious, inaccurate, and inexcusable,” we damage our chances in the war of ideas—because we don’t know what the world is thinking. More »

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      Donald Rumsfeld  • Al Jazeera  • Burlington, Vermont

  • October 2007

    • Qaeda Backers Enraged by Al Jazeera's Osama Excerpts

      Associated Press  |  Oct 26, 07 4:58 AM CDT

      Qaeda Backers Enraged by Al Jazeera's Osama Excerpts

      (Newser) - Supporters of Al Qaeda have attacked Arab broadcaster Al Jazeera for selectively airing critical remarks by Osama bin Laden this week in which he blasts Iraqi insurgent groups for being too splintered. Critics called for the broadcaster to air the entire tape, which also includes praise for the groups. More »

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      Iraq  • al-Qaeda  • insurgents  • Osama bin Laden  • Al Jazeera

  • July 2007

    • Dubai Tower is World's Tallest

      Al Jazeera  |  Jul 21, 07 3:59 PM CDT

      Dubai Tower is World's Tallest

      (Newser) - An unfinished skyscraper in Dubai is now scraping the sky at 1,680 feet, surpassing Tawain's Taipei 101 as the world's tallest building. The Burj Dubai, which began construction in September 2004, will cost $1B and consist of more than 160 floors and 56 elevators when completed in 2008. More »

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      Dubai  • United Arab Emirates  • skyscraper  • Al Jazeera  • buildings  • world's tallest building  • Taipei 101

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