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Karfeld, Marilyn H.
Cleveland Jewish News
03-03-2006
When 9/11 struck, Hafez Al-Mirazi, then Washington bureau chief of Al
Jazeera, was about to sublet new office space for the Arabic TV news
network from The Freedom Forum, a group dedicated to free press and speech
rights.

But since the terrorist attacks, Al-Mirazi and his colleagues had become
"persons of interest," the government's euphemism for suspects. Freedom
Forum, which every year commemorates World Press Freedom Day by reading the
names of journalists who died covering the news, declined to rent Al
Jazeera the offices. The group cited the landlord's concerns that someone
trying to harm Al Jazeera staffers would injure other tenants.

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