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| | The New Yorker: The Talk of the Town (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01) |
 | | Officials at centcom didn’t change their statement, but the fact that they even bothered to show it to al-Issawi demonstrates how far Al Jazeera has come in gaining a measure of respect in the eyes of the U.S. military. |
 | | At centcom, Lieutenant General John Abizaid took the opportunity, during a daily briefing, to decry the “disgusting” images, scolding al-Issawi: “I regard the showing of those pictures as absolutely unacceptable.” Afterward, al-Issawi was philosophical. |
 | | At centcom, Al Jazeera’s office is next to the briefing room on “Coalition Way” (all the hallways have semi-facetious designations), and al-Issawi’s reserved seat at briefings is in the front row, near the podium, next to CNN’s. |
| www.newyorker.com /talk/content/?030421ta_talk_sides (1080 words) |
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