Even Christopher Hitchens, Vanity Truthful author and cheerleader for George Bush and the neocons, is outraged about information of the U.S. President’s intention to ruin Al Jazeera’s headquarters in the Middle East. If Hitchens was the moment a doyenne of thorough polemic (Mom Theresa, Henry Kissinger), he is not now. In simple fact, in the sideswipe he requires in his hottest piece for Slate journal, he casts doubt on the fairness of Al Jazeera Arabic.
Probably he must take a seem at the newest quartet by previous Al Jazeera producer Afshin Rattansi who worked on the programme strand that initially unveiled the criminals who carried out the 9-11 massacres in the Eastern United States. Entitled “The Dream of the 10 years – The London Novels”, Rattansi – who launched a channel in the Center East and labored at BBC’s Today programme just before leaving amidst the crisis induced by the death of WMD scientist, Dr. David Kelly – draws the victims of terrorism or the danger of terrorism with the utmost treatment. He picks a London basement bar, beneath siege from a bombscare.
But why it is interesting to invoke the name of Hitchens is that the other novels -thematically centered on the problems of private finance, wealth distribution under Mrs. Thatcher, terrorism, home and the media – each individual element some of the old Hitchens bite. They resurrect a high quality that Hitchens’ new foe, George Galloway ,who so splendidly wrecked the presidential ambitions of Senator Norm Coleman, ascribed to Hitch, himself – anything about eloquence and the still left.
