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sufrommich Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-01-11 04:24 PM
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Wow, Al Jazeera is showing one of it's reporters in Egypt.
That's a switch from them reporting anonymously since their arrest. I wonder what changed?
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-01-11 04:27 PM
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1. Since the raid in their offices, when the regime pulled all their licenses.
It's said that someone put up big screens so the protesters at Tahrir Square could watch AJ. But, who could do something like that?!
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sufrommich Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-01-11 04:31 PM
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3. I have no idea. Has the Army taken over the television station
perhaps?
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-01-11 04:35 PM
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6. Not that I've seen reported, any way. ETA: Although, it does seem
Edited on Tue Feb-01-11 04:36 PM by EFerrari
as if state tv is now reporting a little more accurately. So, something has happened.
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NoPasaran Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-01-11 04:29 PM
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2. I noticed they also named some of them
Just an observation, no clue as to the reason.
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sufrommich Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-01-11 04:32 PM
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4. Yep, saw that too.
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Bragi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-01-11 04:32 PM
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5. I think they are on air because they can be
Could be because the Mubarak regime is crumbling.
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-01-11 04:37 PM
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7. The point of not IDing themselves before was to avoid arrest
for reporting without a license. The regime arrested 12 AJE people for that.
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Bragi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-01-11 05:06 PM
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8. They've gone back to not naming reporters /nt
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