EGYPT: Government unblocks Al Jazeera
Egypt's state-owned NileSat satellite company has announced that it will unblock Al Jazeera and Al Jazeera Live, the Doha-based news network announced Wednesday, 10 days after authorities stopped transmission over the channel's coverage of anti-government protests.
The decision comes after Egypt's ambassador to the United Nations, Maged Abdelaziz, told the U.N. Security Council that the government had no effective means of controlling the flow of information.
"Even though when we had some disputes with Al Jazeera, and then they were able to broadcast, they managed to maneuver us and go to get from some other sources," Abdelaziz said, according to the Al Jazeera English live blog.
"The world is a small village, and everybody knows what is happening all over the place," he added.
-- Meris Lutz in Beirut
Screenshot: Al Jazeera and Al Jazeera Live were blocked from NileSat. Credit: Aljazeera.net
In the global village, everyone knows everything about everybody.
Posted by: Henry D | February 09, 2011 at 08:05 PM
do we have good translators on the ground or do we have too believe Fox Views? We just popped the top in the gulf. There wells are burning by choice, and ours are spewing, & we still need to move to Stanly Steamer's washing camels clean of oil and a few thousand electric cars with solar chargers too get back too tourism & loving one another so it would be good to speak to the tribal leaders and tent dwellers with honor.
Posted by: Keith Richard Radford Jr | February 09, 2011 at 12:47 PM