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Article: Will Al-Jazeera International network ever achieve liftoff?
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- AP Worldstream
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- June 12, 2006
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DAVID BAUDER, AP Television Writer
AP Worldstream
06-12-2006
Dateline: NEW YORK
The English-language Al-Jazeera International TV network faces a number of hurdles to getting on the air.
It has missed its target launch date and won't set another, has no public commitments by anyone to show it in the United States, saw its closest competitor beat it to the market and is the target of a pressure campaign by a group hoping it never airs here.
Al-Jazeera International's operators are nonetheless pressing forward with plans to create a worldwide news operation, despite a name that immediately raises hackles in the West.
"Give us a fair crack of the whip," urges Lindsey Oliver, the network's ...