People in US make fun of Yasir `Arafat for sending different messages in Arabic and in English. Do you know who is far more guilty of that hypocrisy and inconsistency? The buffoon king of Jordan. He gives one interview in English, and the opposite message in Arabic. And he never gives an interview in English without having his silly press office issue a statement in which he incredibly claims that the interview distorted what he had said. Who is he deceiving? And the Iraqi puppet prime minister/car bomber, Iyad Allawi, said in an interview on AlArabiyya that Iraqis cannot accept armies from neighboring countries because they are sensitive about that. Does that mean that Mr. puppet car bomber does not believe that the presence of 146,000 US troops (plus 38 brave soldiers from Macedonia) does not offend the sensitivity of Iraqis? On another matter, I can report to you that the US propaganda TV, Al-Hurra (the free one) (mockingly called Al-Dhurra (the 2nd wife) in Egypt--I have called it Al-Murra (the bitter one), is a colossal failure. Nobody watches it at all. People just do not program their TVs to receive it. I had to have my mother reprogram her TV for me to be able to watch some of it. At one point, there were breaking news from Iraq, and AlJazeera and Al-Arabiyya were providing live coverage from Baghdad, and Al-Hurra TV was reairing a recorded program (they often seem to have recorded (live) programs). They also reair US A & E style documentaries. The Egyptian Embassy in Cairo, according to a report in one Arabic newspaper, reported on the failure of AlHurra. But AlArabiyya has a new director: the pro-US, pro-House of Saud `Abdur-Rahman Al-Rashid (former editor of House of Saud mouthpiece Ash-Sharq Al-Awsat) and the imprint of Al-Rashid can be seen. Reports from Palestine are relegated to background news, and events from Iraq are reported through the mouths of the Iraqi puppets. Iraqi puppets are ever present on AlArabiyya. Many of its Lebanese reporters and anchors were previously active in Lebanese right-wing Christian causes.