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Last week, when Al Jazeera reported that hundreds of thousands of civilians had been killed by U.S. forces in Fallujah, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld called it "vicious, inaccurate, outrageous and inexcusable." - Fox News

In this recent article Fox News accused Al Jazeera of being in league with the terrorists in Iraq because of its "ubiquitous presence at news events in Iraq" and since it "often has the first video of hostages."

The same article states "the U.S.-led coalition says it has documented 34 instances last week alone of Al Jazeera hyping, misreporting or distorting events in Iraq."

For a start Al Jazeera never claimed "hundreds of thousands" - it claimed up to 500.

Secondly, when you actually have reporters on the ground you will generally tend to be the first to report news, rather than those sitting behind the highly fortified walls of the American compounds.

The last statement speaks for itself. Here's a small sample of the US Administration's hyping, misreporting or distorting facts about Iraq.

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last updated 7/21/03