Al Jazeera's War on Libya http://mostlywater.org/washingtons_un_war_resolution_libya Increasingly, Al Jazeera sounds more like BBC and America's media, providing managed, not real news. It fell far short covering uprisings in Egypt, Bahrain, Yemen, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, Iraq, Oman, Qatar, Algeria, and since mid-February, Libya.Professor As'ad AbuKhalil's Angry Arab News Service called its Arabic coverage "blatantly political." As for Bahrainians, they're "on their own now: there is no Al Jazeera to support their cause and expose the regime, and the US and EU will do their best to rationalize and support government repression. Shame on Al Jazeera Arabic for abandoning the people of Bahrain, and for even invoking a sectarian element in their coverage, implying that only Shi'ites are protesting."

It's Libyan coverage has been especially one-sided, backing pro-Western interests. In Arabic and English, it's featured National Front for the Salvation of Libya officials with ties to the CIA and Saudi Arabia, pretending they're credible sources. Moreover, they gave Muhammad as-Senussi air time, Libya's so-called heir to the Senussi Crown, calling for international community allies to oust Gaddafi and "stop the ongoing 'massacre,' " they instigated.

On March 18, it headlined "Libya declares ceasefire but fighting goes on," saying:"....government forces continued to fire on the rebel-held western city of Misurata," unnamed witnesses claimed. Other reports used unverified evidence, including alleged air strikes Russian satellite imagery couldn't detect, saying none were seen or damage on the ground. As a result, Al Jazeera's credibility is open to question. Bad reporting makes it all suspect, what's painfully clear watching one-sided Libyan accounts, distorting facts for Western interests, aiding its drive to war.