I was here in Qatar in the 90s when AlJazeera started, it was the Arabic channel of the BBC but they had some financial problems and they made a deal with the Qatar government to sell the channel and move it all (stuff and equipments) to Doha, so it wasn't baught by Bin Laden and all this crap you heared in your western news, they simply hate AlJazeera channel.
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I was here in Qatar in the 90s when AlJazeera started, it was the Arabic channel of the BBC but they had some financial problems and they made a deal with the Qatar government to sell the channel and move it all (stuff and equipments) to Doha, so it wasn't baught by Bin Laden and all this crap you heared in your western news, they simply hate AlJazeera channel.
Ayman