Washingtons sudden embrace of Al-Jazeera will not erase past US-crimes against the network by Jeremy Scahill http://www.tlaxcala-int.org/article.asp?reference=3698 

If it weren’t for Al Jazeera, much of the unfolding Egyptian revolution would never have been televised. Its Arabic- and English-language channels have provided the most comprehensive coverage of any network in any language hands-down.