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'''Al Jazeera''' ({{lang-ar|الجزيرة|translit-std=DIN|translit=al-jazīrah}}, {{IPA-ar|æl (d)ʒæˈziːrɐ|IPA}}, literally "The Island", referring to the [[Arabian Peninsula]] in context)<ref>{{cite web
| url = http://america.aljazeera.com/tools/faq.html#3
===War in Afghanistan===
Al Jazeera came to the attention of many in the West during the hunt for [[Osama bin Laden]] and the [[Taliban]] in Afghanistan after the [[11 September attacks|11 September 2001 attacks]] on the United States. It aired videos it received from [[Osama bin Laden]] and the [[Taliban]], deeming new footage of the world's most wanted fugitives to be newsworthy. Some criticized the network for giving a voice to terrorists".<ref>{{cite webnews
| author = Joel Campagna
| url = http://cpj.org/reports/2001/10/aljazeera-oct01.php
| title = Between Two Worlds
| publisher = Committee to Protect Journalists
| date = October 2001
| access-date = 18 November 2012
}}</ref> Al Jazeera's Washington, D.C., bureau chief, [[Hafez Al Mirazi|Hafez al-Mirazi]], compared the situation to that of the [[Unabomber]]'s messages in ''[[The New York Times]]''.<ref>{{cite web
| author = Joe Eskenazi
| url = http://www.jweekly.com/article/full/20801/al-jazeera-not-all-bin-laden-all-the-time-d-c-bureau-chief-says/
| title = Al-Jazeera not 'all bin Laden, all the time,' D.C. bureau chief says
| publisher = Jweekly
| date = 17 October 2003
| access-date = 18 November 2012
}}</ref> The network said it had been given the tapes because it had a large Arab audience.<ref>{{cite news
| author = Fouad Ajami
| url = https://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/18/magazine/18ALJAZEERA.html?pagewanted=all
}}</ref>
Many other TV networks were eager to acquire the same footage. [[CNN International]] had exclusive rights to it for six hours before other networks could broadcast, a provision that was broken by the others on at least one controversial occasion.<ref>{{cite news
| author = Jason Gay
| url = http://observer.com/2001/10/cnn-snaps-back-to-action/
| date = 12 December 2001
| access-date = 20 November 2012
The network remained dependent on government support in 2002, with a budget of {{Currency|40 million|passthrough=yes}} and ad revenues of about {{Currency|8 million|passthrough=yes}}. It also took in fees </ref>for [[simulcast|sharing its news feed]] with other networks. It had an estimated 45 million viewers around the world. Al Jazeera soon had to contend with a new rival, [[Al Arabiya]], a venture of the [[Middle East Broadcasting Center]], which was set up in nearby [[Dubai Media City|Dubai]] with Saudi financial backing.<ref>{{cite news ▼}}</ref>
Al Jazeera's prominence rose during the war in Afghanistan because it had opened a bureau in [[Kabul]] before the war began. This gave it better access for videotaping events than other networks, which bought Al Jazeera's footage, sometimes for as much as $250,000.<ref name="books.google.com">Mohammed El-Nawawy, 2003. Al-jazeera: The Story of the Network That Is Rattling Governments and Redefining Modern Journalism. Cambridge, MA: Westview Press, p. 166, [https://books.google.com/books?id=ERcFtqe8HXsC&lpg=PA166&ots=0j6KLPwziy&dq=al%20jazeera%20footage%20%24250%2C000&hl=en&pg=PA166#v=onepage&q=al%20jazeera%20footage%20$250,000&f=false]</ref>
The Kabul office was destroyed by United States bombs in 2001.<ref>{{cite news
| url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/1653887.stm
| title = Al-Jazeera Kabul offices hit in US raid
| newspaper = BBC News
| date = 13 November 2001
| access-date = 18 November 2012
}}</ref> Looking to stay ahead of possible future conflicts, Al Jazeera then opened bureaux in other troubled spots.
▲The network remained dependent on government support in 2002, with a budget of {{Currency|40 million|passthrough=yes}} and ad revenues of about {{Currency|8 million|passthrough=yes}}. It also took in fees for [[simulcast|sharing its news feed]] with other networks. It had an estimated 45 million viewers around the world. Al Jazeera soon had to contend with a new rival, [[Al Arabiya]], a venture of the [[Middle East Broadcasting Center]], which was set up in nearby [[Dubai Media City|Dubai]] with Saudi financial backing.<ref>{{cite news
| author = Peter Feuilherade
| url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2780985.stm
}}</ref>
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On 21 May 2003, Al Jazeera broadcast a three-minute clip from a tape that was obtained from Al Qaeda. The tape about Ayman al-Zawahiri, an Egyptian physician and the intellectual supporter of Al Qaeda. In the tape, Zawahiri mentioned the 11 September attack and more terrorism against the Western countries saying that "The Crusaders and Jews understand only the language of killing and blood. They can only be persuaded through returning coffins, devastated interests, burning towers and collapsed economies."
In September 2003, [[Tayseer Allouni]], the Al Jazeera journalist who was tasked to interview Osama bin Ladin several weeks later the 11 September attack was arrested by Spanish government agency. Allouni was accused of being close to [[Al-Qaeda|Al Qaeda]], eventually was found guilty, and sentenced to seven years of house arrest.
In October 2003, the managing editor of the Saudi newspaper [[Arab News]], [[John R. Bradley]] accounted that the [[Presidency of George W. Bush|Bush administration]] had told the Qatari government that "If Al Jazeera failed to reconsider its news context, the US would, in turn, have to consider [[Qatar-United States relations|its relation with Qatar]]."<ref>{{Cite book
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===2003 Iraq War===
Before and during the United States-led invasion of Iraq, where Al Jazeera had a presence since 1997, the network's facilities and footage were again highly sought by foreign networks. The channel and its web site also were seeing unprecedentedwith attention450 fromjournalists viewersin looking for alternatives to [[Embedded journalism|embedded reporting]] and military press conferencesall.
Al Jazeera moved its sports coverage to a new, separate channel on 1 November 2003, allowing for more news and public affairs programming on the original channel. An English language web site had launched earlier in March 2003. The channel had about 1,300 to 1,400 employees, its newsroom editor told [[The New York Times]]. There were 23 bureaux around the world and 70 foreign correspondents, with 450 journalists in all.
On 1 April 2003, a United States plane fired on Al Jazeera's [[Baghdad]] bureau, killing reporter Tareq Ayyoub.<ref>{{cite news
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