Two networks -- Qatar-based satellite station Al-Jazeera and Al Arabiya, in the United Arab Emirates -- were among the stations offering Arabic translations of the entire speech to viewers across Iraq.

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"Our job is finished, " a security guard at the warehouse, Salem al Mohandes, told the Arabic television station al-Jazeera.

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It was broadcast by al-Jazeera, a television station in Qatar.

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In an interview later on Sunday with the Qatari television station Al-Jazeera, Mr Nouri called on the conservatives to learn from the elections.

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If representatives of the two groups want to make a public point, the Qatari-owned satellite-television station, Al Jazeera, is at hand to air it.

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Al-Jazeera manager Adnan al-Sharif said the station had never reported the arrest, though it did carry reports from other agencies - which later proved to be untrue - that Sheikh Muqtada al-Sadr's house had been surrounded by US troops.

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It wasn't CNN or even the BBC who were in Kabul broadcasting exclusive pictures when the air strikes began, but Al-Jazeera, until then a little-heard-of Arab TV station.

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