Summary

“Al-Jazeera Scoops The World” describes Al-Jazeera’s infamous broadcast of the beginning of the war in Afghanistan alongside the exclusive footage of Osama bin Laden addressing the world. It is uncertain exactly how this videotaped speech from bin Laden reached Al-Jazeera, with Tayseer Allouni, Al-Jazeera’s former reporter in Kabul, claiming that the tape was delivered to the network by an associate of bin Laden’s, while Al-Jazeera’s chief news editor Ibrahim Helal claims that the network solicited the tape from bin Laden through their Afghan contacts. The video saw bin Laden speak about the years of U.S. air strikes against Iraq and his mission to ensure that in a world divided into two camps, one a camp of believers and the other a camp of infidels, he would strive to ensure that the camp of the infidels “leave...