Al Jazeera, the Oatari satellite televi-sion network that revolutionised Arab news coverage a decade ago, has long defied its critics. No other network has seen its bureaus both bombed by the American air force and torched by Egyptian revolutionaries. None has been damned by so diverse a range of governments and politicians. Libya's Muammar Oaddafi blasted it for fomenting revolution. Syria's embattled regime accused it of building Potem-kin sets of Syrian cities to stage fake anti-government protests. And Al Jazeera was recently described on Fox, a rival American news network, as an "anti-American terror mouthpiece".
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