Al-Jazeera No Threat to US
Amir Taheri

It is a dark and humid night as a Tomahawk cruise missile fired from a ship sailing west of the Strait of Hormuz whizzes its way over the Qatari Peninsula and into a compound of small buildings that are turned into rubble on impact.

The missile has been fired by the United States Navy and its target is the headquarters of the Al-Jazeera satellite television network located in Qatar just four miles from the largest American military base between Germany and Japan. The attack was planned to take place deep at night to make sure that there are just a handful of people in the Al-Jazeera buildings, thus avoiding collateral damage on a big scale.

And then?

This is the provocative introduction to Amir Taheri’s op-ed on Al-Jazeera TV and the rumors that the US considered bombing the station’s headquarters. In the piece, Taheri shows that the rumor is stupid beyond belief on many counts. Read the whole piece.