Abstract
Tatham, a serving officer in the Royal Navy and its spokesman during military operations in Iraq in 2003, writes: The imminent face-to-face confrontation between al-Jazeera and the big hitters among news providers in the West is one of the most fascinating media prospects of the year. Al-Jazeera's English-language service is likely to be the subject of just as much controversy as its parent organisation, although the flak it has attracted in the past has come not only from the West. Under its legend, "The opinion and the counter opinion", the channel has enraged nearly every sector of international and Arab society
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