Bin Laden and AlJazeera

OK, I like many things about AlJazeera (Arabic) and still think that it is the best news source in any language. But there are some problems sometimes: the Islamist sympathies of some of the people there may color good judgment. When Bin Laden or his lieutenants come out with their long and boring speeches (that are largely ignored outside of Washington, DC and Riyadh), they oftne ask one person to comment and invariably it is somebody who is either sympathetic or respectful of Bin Laden (like Islamist lawyer, Muntasar Az-Zayyat or `Abdul-Bari `Atwan of Al-Quds Al-`Arabi). People who are symphetic or respectful of Bin Laden usually refer to him as "Shaykh".