Oh geeze......how stupid does stupid get? What department in the US Government operates this bootleg station. Another operation setup to curry favor from political contributers and put thier wives and childern in cushy government jobs. This needs to be stopped now. It is stupid waste of American tax dollars, period.

Just another blunder in the Bush administration. TV station was in the hands of political sons and daughters who were pure adolesents with no idea how to operate a TV station let alone provide diplomacy. It needs to stop now.

I am not sure that America could made bigger fools of on a regular basis if we tried. I wonder which campaign contributor was assigned this mission with no qualifications what so ever to actually run it. Somebody stop the never ending spiral our country seems to be falling into.

Maybe this network should hire the gay soldiers that speak arabic who were discharged because of their sexual preference. Yeah, we have some real geniuses in the white house... God help us all....

While George Bush is certainly at fault for be overzeolous and rushing in to a horrible situation the fault should not all fall upon his shoulders. This islamic terrorism should have been curtailed 30 or 40 years ago. No one is really to blame for a people's choice to follow such violent teachings but security and intelligence should have kept an eye out for such changes in another country or countries changes in idealism, religion and political upheaval. We all choose to blame 9/11 on Bush or Clinton when in reality this was a slowly growing disease in the world society that no one expected. Now what do we do to rid ourselves of this infection?

Shut down Al Hurra now! It's a waste of taxpayer funds. U.S. credibility has already been lost in most of the Middle East and American propaganda will make no difference.

Sorry, Angel, but get your facts straight. Islamic terrorism in the 1960s?? Where, exactly? Let's try to understand where Salafi Jihadism developed, where in fact Osama bin Ladin got his start. Right, that would be Afghanistan. Now let's try to figure out why, without reaching for the stupid juice.

Oh, and let's look at the role of Karen Hughes in this boondogle. Yes, this has all the earmarks of Bush Company cronyism and incompetence and mismanagement by sycophants, Republican ideologues and campaign donors.

It's not like changing our bad name in the Middle East is important, or anything.

Sounds like we are terribly anxious to spend money. Shut down Al Hurra. At least fire some people for this blunder.
If you don't know what's being broadcast, simply pull the plug.I would much rather spend the $63 mil/yr on anti terrorist intelligence.

Note: Once again senior management is allowed to slip by without paying for mismanagement and gross negligence.

Well, the good news is that nobody was probably watching Al Hurra anyway...

lilybelle, your viewpoint is WAY too shortsighted. Why don't YOU do a bit of research on Islamist movements, beginning with the Musilim Brotherhood in Egypt (in 1928). Read about Sayyid Qutb, and his movement, which influenced those to come long after him, including AZ and UBL.

These issues are much, much wider in scope than you think...and have in fact been around for much longer than you think.

Angel actually has a valid point and a much clearer understanding of this situation, and it's naive kids like you who should, for the sake of a better world understanding, learn a bit more about what it is you're talking about...

Anyway, back to the issue - the station's management needs to be changed (how can you run an Arab-centric station without understanding Arabic?!)

And why is it so wrong to run programming such as Al Hurra's? Why NOT expose this population to BBC and PBS programming? They can change the channel. Most Arabs would rather watch Al Jazeera or CNN, anyway...

Unless I'm mistaken, they've discharged about 38 Arabic linguists from the military for being gay, depriving our soldiers of translators they could save their lives. This station could've used a few Arabic speakers, whether they were gay or not! Now tell me who is the real threat to America...homosexuals, or the bigots and idiots running the Pentagon and the White House?

This could be excused if, after management learned of the first incident, they had shut down broadcasting until they had people and processes in place to police their own content.

But their apparent response was to do nothing. Or at most to post a few more want ads for professional interpreters.

Sounds like Al Hurra's been FEMA'd.

Why does the programming have to go directly out on the air in Iraq, without being vetted first by Arab speakers in the US? There are these things called satellites ... which can relay programs ...

Gosh, no -- management has been active! They've fired "some" of the terrorists -- and firing someone who has screwed up is pretty much above-and-beyond in Bushworld.

Another example of the Bush administration inserting idiots into positions of importance. I now believe Bush and his friends are quite literally, DUMB.

PEOPLE: We have a bunch of NUTBRAINS in the White House and Washington DC. Vote all of them out! You'll be better off for it!

What? Another example of the incompetence of the administration in its attempt to win hearts and minds in the Middle East?

Whodathunkit?

I suppose George Bush, out of the loyalty that kept Don Rumsfeld on board long after his pull date and allows Alberto to slowly twist in the wind, will give the guilty parties "a heckuva job" vote of confidence.

Look, guys. It is administration policy that government is the problem, and therefore they have to prove their case. In addition, governing is not a priority, but feeding at the public trough is. Then add on top of that an Arabic speaker with ties to the Middle East (i.e., all of them) is automatically eliminated from consideration as a government hire. With all of this, what do you expect, for God's sakes?! If those are the ground rules, then the above mentioned fiasco is absolutely certain to happen.

Actually, Angel Oliver North knew and he did speak up about bin Laden and this information was thrown to the curb by our government

Sure would like to know what else OLIVER NORTH knew...like he knew he was running cocaine for the repubs off of John Hulls airstrip in Costa Rica and dovetailed into trading arms for hostages with IRAN behind the scenes...paybacks are HELL...now about this news outlet...who do you think was designed to BLOWBACK our propaganda we paid for...radio free mesopotamia?????

I'm sure the Al Hurra execs were expert in their knowledge of Arabian horses, though.

Heckuva job.

@ DKM:

That Oliver North / Bin Laden thing was a hoax, go look it up on Snopes. AND...If Oliver North is your reference point for good government than we have problems.

@ Everyone:

Ron Paul can fix this mess. Ron Paul 2008!

Close it down, fire Blaya and throw away the key. We can use 65 million on better things.

John Weaver

Unbelievable!!! Charlie Gibson, Brian Ross, and anyone else connected to this story should be fired! I will not be watching ABC again. This is totally unAmerican. Why do you at ABC keep
'sleeping with the enemy"?

More of the same -- as a lifelong Republican -- I feel so betrayed!! Our country has lost it's rudder -- we're sadly adrift on a sea of chaos.

The executives and officials of Al Hurra cannot speak Arabic.
Which's bad enough. But for them not to be able to see
that the Iraqi flag has been aired upside down, and for a considerable
length of time is tragic.
This leads one to believes that these people are blind as well as
ignorant.
How would the Iraqis, Arabs & Muslims feel when they see that the words
("Allahu Akbar") "God is Great spread across the width of the Iraqi
Flag
is being inscribed in reverse? Not so great, to say the least.
Incidentally the Arabic text (reading: "Allahu Akbar") is a refrain
from the
Holly Quran uttered by over
one billion Muslims around the world, many times a day, when the
Moazzen
calls
the faithful for prayer.
Not to mention that they couldn't have chosen a worse moment for their
costly blunder! This has happened in December 2006. And right after
President Bush delivered one of his most important speeches on the
political
development in Iraq.

A picture of President Bush, appeared with the Iraqi Flag upside down
on the
Al-Hurra screen along with the main highlight of the speech!
It goes without saying that most of the viewers were offended.
A TV Network that was established to win us friends in the Muslim World
was
creating more enemies for us.
The lack of Arabic, written or spoken and the utter ignorance of the
cultural dynamic of the Middle East has proven to be an obstacle for
Alhurra
to perform it's task sufficiently .

Take the Art Director, who heads the graphic department, in Al Hurra
for
example.
This comedian does not write or speak Arabic. Why would they give him
such
sensitive position position given that Arabic is the liturgical
language of
Islam?
Worse he goes and appoint himself an Assistant that neither speak nor
write
Arabic!
Worse still the Assistant who lack basic graphical skills got the job
on the
compelling ground that his wife and the Art Director's wife are
childhood
fiends!!
With the current News & Art Directors Al-hurra decline is bound to
continue. They'll do all they can to keep their job as they don't stand
a
ghost of chance of, ever being employed by any other TV Networks.
Sadly it's the poor American Tax Payer who will end up footing the bill
for
these losers.

Amazing how many posts here wish to create a religious war out of what was nothing more than a series of lies to justify stealing the oil and land resources of a sovereign state.

Arabic culture and Islam are different things, as is American Culture and Christianity. The puppet masters on both sides are pimping the uninformed into following their agendas, most of these posts indicate that the pimps are successful. The inhumanities of Arabic culture, and mankind in general predate Islam, or any religion, the religion was given to mitigate the animal instincts. As usual however, they were co-opted by the pimps and used to focus the animal to serve the pimps' agendas.
Sad to see, most of the posters here are so used to being pimped, that they now invent their own reasons for invasion, as those stated by Bushco have long since been proven to be lies.

U.S. Government Gave Airtime to terrorists, Official Admits is the opening link for this discussion.
Now the question is nothing is absolute right or left or to that matter correct or wrong, especially when it comes to debatable issue. Interestingly this discussion is lingering thus far where the actual broadcast might not have been.
For freedom sake, What is wrong if the not-so western contents went on air?
Us tax $'s are never wasted, be it on Jerry Springer or Larry-K / Petter-Jenn.
You ought to see what you may-want to see and believe, As such the matter of disciplining/dismissal or not of the presenters is media policy of the respective company/ABC News.

As a side note;
1) Bringing in the issue of fired Arabic interpreters from forces will not do any good, logically these interpreters were professionally correct, as they knew, it is practically more comfortable and easy for westerners to understand Arabic from dorsal end (no periods required due to laws of inheritance.)
2) The idea of freedom fighters and Mujahideen’s to fight against USSR in Afghanistan was bought and supported. Now “Freedom” is all about tenderizing the remnant splinters and loose-change Mujahids. Let them not over run by cutting in to the Western culture with “ALQAIDA” name for “Learner’s first Book of alphabet”. These episodes have been in history and present times will soon be in history. It all depends which side of the glass you have looked at it.

All the best for health,happiness and prosperity. Hector

This is exactly what happens when you start hiring people on the basis of loyalty first and on the basis of expertise second. People, c'mon, the former head of FEMA knew nothing about emergencies, the people responsible for giving Bush his military "intelligence" couldn't even tell the difference between Shia's and Sunni's and mister Gonzales, the chief of justice wouldn't know justice if it bit him up the behind! He approved torture, Gitmo and illegal wiretapping, secret renditions, political firings....it all seems normal to Gonzales, our head of JUST-THIS! Words have lost all meaning in this world, thanks to Bush and his loyalists.

If at all did it really happen??If it did it was meant to happen. These are all stepping stones to a one world govt and monetary system.The plans have been known for generations to reach this point. I tell you what will happen next May 2008, you will be introduced to "The Real ID Act". Homeland Security says it's not a National ID Card. It is a card with A CHIP embedded in it.But they don't call it a National ID Card.Get in contact with you states motor vehicle dept or safety department and ask for information about it if you need proof.It's been passed into law. There is a web site. This is wrong and very dangerous to all of our freedoms we so blindly think we have. www.freedomtofascism.com check out the free video on the web thats explains there has never been a law on income tax. The Supreme Court ruled on Profit and Gains,not income.

I sure could use some that money to pay for my college tuition. Listen to George Washington's advice ya'll, stay out of foreign affairs...

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To John, and everyone else who believes there was no law authorizing an income tax: You are mistaken. The 16th Ammendment to the Constitution of the United States of America explicitly states that Congress shall have the power to tax all incomes. Just because an authorizing bill was usually passed after an ammendment doesn't make it a requirement. None was passed for any ammendments after the tenth.

Did it ever occur to anyone that this station might have actually intended to help terrorist? Saying they didn't know due to a language barrier is just a cover.

Think about it. Without insurgents and terrorist there would be absolutely no reason for us to stay there...and everybody knows we ain't going nowhere now that we got our soldiers over that black gold.

So, they got caught promoting their own so-called "enemy". Good thing they had their excuses ready.

Good Morninggggg all you Fellow anti- American Terrorists in Downtown Baghdad!

The booosh administration predicts another Hot and Bloody morning today and if that isn't warm enough, they recommend FLYING the Iraqi Flag upside down to inflame more temperatures.

In traffic, we forsee bumper to bumper IUD's on your daily commute with Death on the Bagdad Airport road so keep your pedal to the metal and HIT that Gate at 98.

I'm with 'A rope leash' above. This admin isn't inept; everything has gone as planned. Remember, they've promoted "the long war", perpetual war, a perpetual war economy... which includes perpetual obscene defense contracts and kickbacks (the bone to the common folk is jobs in the industry). We've found out lately the opposition party is anything but, and all kinds of laws are now in place to stifle any dissent whatsoever.

It's like the War on Drugs, only we kill people now instead of locking them in a cage, and the profit margin is higher. Of course, eliminating drugs was never the intention, just as ending terrorism isn't.

Lots of well reasoned points.
It may be a bit simpler and sadly, somewhat more troubling.
Little Mr. Bush is unable to construct properly sequenced sentences. In itself trivial. Unless it indicates a damaged corpus colosum.
Just a layman's hunch. But my guess is that his sequencing of survival priorities for humanity is equally twisted.
"bomb bomb Iran..."
Regards
ed

I can’t believe that the airing of the controversial messages was not known to the executives and managers at Al Hurra.

Al Hurra is a sham and all the Arabs know that. It is pure propaganda and that should not be a surprise to anyone - propaganda is their only mission.

It is not conceivable that the air time given to anti-western voices was not known. Certainly the reporters and anchors speak Arabic and surely they know the network's propaganda mission - they know where their checks come from. I suspect that the airing of anti-western opinions on Al Hurra is a deliberate attempt to persuade the target viewers that the network is not always 100% pro-US and more subtly insert the propaganda.

Peace

Well, we can't make a big corporate bonus without a war, and we can't have a war unless we keep the supply of "terrorists" cranked up. Guess we'll just have to spend some tax dollars making "terrorists"...

Of course that is a very cynical outlook. Too bad it is the one that best fits the facts.

I guess I am not surprised at this gross error!! Afterall, anything the Bushie's tough or get involved with ends up into a complete mess or fiasco-like Iraq, No Child Left Behind, Homeland Security, Environment-I could go on and on!!! Notice the national media doesn't cover this mistake though!! Because they cover Bush's ass!

Let's Party. Pass my Pear Ripple. On Ice please.
Stock Market Zooming.
Let us look at Total Value Increase in Stock Market.

Percent Increase by Year by President.
clinton--41%
bush sr--21%
reagan---17%
Carter----5%
Bushjr----4%

Where is the Zoom?
I see--from the bottom of the pit now to surface.
Example--Cisco at $75 in 2000--Zoomed down to $15 under Bush--now zoom up to $28 Hugh gain from $15 to $28.
Let us party. I need Alka Selter.

Seven years for S&L to get back to surface from Bush dry hole
Nasdaq still half way up out of dry hole.

clarence swinney
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Terrorrist is a general statement, can the terorrist in washington please define, who the terorrist are?

I hope they are smart enough (heh) to make sure their monitors are not terrorists!! But, I don't want to speculate on that. Cynical means wise these days. I guess the Intellgence Department wasn't necessarily interested in what was going on the American-sponsored radio. Unfortunately, these guys actually ARE really smart guys who know exactly how to run things, so these circumstances beg the question "What the **** is really going on?" "Oh, we are just stupid and overlooked that enormously obvious detail." I don't think so. Alberto Gonzales syndrome has become prevalent in this country. Read about the bureaucracies under Hitler and Stalin; you'll see. Too late means too late.

Evidently the Arabic-speaking journalists serving at Al Hurra mistakenly took "free speech", one of America's favorite slogans, literally.

Ahh those silly Iraqis... so full of idealism and naivete.

Shouldn't someone be hauled off to Gitmo for being a 'terrorist' sympathizer for this?
Meanwhile, aren't some of our own returning Iraq vets and ex-military personnel being called to task for expressing antiwar views at this point?
Is the message here that all forms of promotion of war will be tolerated and all forms of dissent against war will be punished?
Welcome to fascist America.

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There really is no easy solution to this problem, other than the most obvious one: Shut down the station and invest the money into other things. Things that we, the American taxpayers, actually need. Something this disorganised can never be expected to succeed, and only a fool would hope otherwise.

To jesus_q: Shut up. You've made that most favourite of foreign mistakes: Assuming that the whole of the US populace agrees with what's being done by the govenment. We can't even agree with each other most of the time; what makes you think we can all agree with the President or Congress and accept what they're trying to stuff down our throats?

I don't agree with what they're doing, but to perpetuate this sort of ignorance is in and of itself an excercise in ignorance. You, sir, should be gagged.

This article is hilarious and "The Blotter" once again does a great job at spinning the truth.

Accidentally giving airtime to "terrorists" that just so happen to epitomize the West's mythical idea of the Arabic Muslim caricature? These are hardly "gaffes," people. This is obviously a propaganda campaign; it's a media outlet being run by US forces. They cover this nonsense on purpose and likely fabricate it, as well, in an effort to effectively manage perception and control the flow of information. Wake up...

Well, "yes" and "no" to the readers flogging the Bush administration for the accurately reported outrages of Al Harra. As it's an US State Department entity, the administration is ultimately to blame - and perhaps most of all, Karen Hughes, the Undersecretary of State who is responsible for oversight. But the real problem is its news director, Larry Register. According to the web site "Sorce Watch": "A March 2007 opinion piece by Joel Mowbray in the Wall Street Journal expressed concern at changes in Al Hurra's programming since 'longtime CNN producer, Larry Register' became the channel's news director in November 2006. 'Investigations into Arab government wrongdoing or oppression were no longer in vogue, and the ban on turning the airwaves over to terrorists was lifted. For those who had chafed under Mr. Register's predecessor -- who curbed the desire of many on staff to make Al-Hurra more like al-Jazeera -- the new era was welcomed warmly,'" Subsequently, the Wall Street Journal has documented further Mr. Register as the source the anti-Israeli - indeed, anti-American - bias.

One suspects Mr. Register has been left in place these 7 months from stupidity, but its certainly not from including a liberal news professional in a right wing "friends of George" club.

Larry Register has resigned from Al Hurra effective June 8, 2007.

He will not be missed by those of us who had to work under his closed door hidden managment style.

We are looking forward to the future under a stronger leadership that understands who our audience is.

Wake Up, Filmer, & Wake Up. You fellows are good guys but you are off the mark and really need to wake up and understand what is happpening. The fish stinks at the head. Who hired Register? Not Bush. He could care less abotu Alhurra. The place is becoming a BBG staff landing pad. A way to go from a cheap government GSer to some bigger bucks and bonuses.

Ford, you had no leadership there now. Please don't kid yourself. Reaper above, has the right idea. Too much money is going to these government retirees who have no diplomatic or real TV experience. Would you fly on a 747 with a pilot who own talks (not flys)to Piper pilots?

The 7 months of stupidity lies with Conniff who sits on his butt and read the Washington Post every morning in his retirement job and lives less thean 7 mile from the office.

Let me add some insight to the big picture. As Sinclair Lewis once said, "When Facism Comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and holding a cross." We were blindsided by this administration because we foolishly thought that they were "men of the lord." Now they have stipped us of our civil liberties and made an ass of us around the world, and they claim its all still in the name of God and patriotism. I wonder which God would order the killing of Muslims (which I hate to break it to you but Jesus was Arab, so in escense we are killing his people). But the bottom line is too many people in this country bought into the crap they fed us from day one and now we're boiling in the melting pot! I'm just glad I never voted for satan's spawn! Everything I predicted this administration would do has been done. For years my friends and family said I was "crazy" "that won't happen" Now I get to say "TOLD YA SO!!!!!" I tried to warn people but all they could see was the cross he claimed to hold and the patriot he claimed to be. It was once said that when the Antichrist comes he will fool the masses as he is a great deciever. Hmmmm I'm gonna make my next prediction (since they have all come true thus far) Perhaps we are dealing with a much larger problem then we realize. I predict that the last chapters of revelation will come true very soon. I hope I'm wrong. God save me from your people! If you want a more in depth education listen to some immortal technique and see what I see! Save Your Souls before its too late then may we meet at heavens gate!

As one of my teacher said 'hit them with a big stupid stick' that might do it. After all we don't expect much from the old-timer bureaucrats.

The very fact that the US has been attempting political manipulations in these areas, is how such enemies have been ultimately gathering. Not least, when George Bush Senior was heading the CIA, and then the country.
It does the case for Israel no good, for the USA to have exacerbated ire by meddling in affairs over there. Yugoslavia was a well-founded, and thankfully successful enterprise, but Iraq (that old customer for US weapons) was very-much not!
The hornets nest is well and truly stirred up, and whatever confused directive any malcontents might ever have had over there - they are much easier to galvanize against a "Crusade" (GW's incredible call to arms, while sending other people's kids to die in the sandy firmament).
The intelligence, and experts warned against this, but to a president and party with such lack of world-wisdom, a snappy "Weapons Of MASS DESTRUCTION" mantra rolled nicely off the tongue.

US has a strange policy! of course it has a super power, but when i see the Iraq operations i think: and that you call democracy?