However, reporters stationed in Basra -- from Abu Dhabi television and Al-Jazeera satellite network -- said they saw no signs of civilian unrest.
Iraqi Information Minister Mohamed Saeed al Sahaf told the Arabic television network Al-Jazeera Tuesday there was no revolt under way.
The tape, which initially aired on the Arabic-language news network Al Jazeera television, shows a man identified as Saeed Alghamdi.
Sunday's order from the Communications and Media Commission includes the Qatar-based satellite network Al Jazeera and eight outlets aimed at the country's Sunni Arab minority.
Last week, US intelligence experts said technical analysis of another audio tape aired on the al-Jazeera satellite TV network showed "almost certainly" that it came from Bin Laden.
However, Mr. Morsi is likely to receive a boost of support from natural-gas powerhouse Qatar, which has hosted exiled Muslim Brotherhood leaders for years and given the group a powerful platform on its government-financed al-Jazeera Arab news network.
The Arabic website of news network al-Jazeera has been defaced, apparently by hackers loyal to the Syrian regime.
The Arabic news network al-Jazeera said a gang stormed its Cairo offices, setting them on fire and damaging equipment.
The mobile service of Qatar-based news network al-Jazeera Arabic has been hacked.
On Saturday, the Arabic-language network Al-Jazeera broadcast video of the hostages with their abductors giving the initial 48-hour deadline for their demands to be met.
The Qatari government set up the Doha Centre for Media Freedom in 2008 to promote press freedom and quality journalism, and is home to the pan-Arab satellite TV network al-Jazeera.
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In an interview on Al Jazeera, Khanfar said the network received constant feedback from governments and would review complaints and make changes when justified, but he denied bending to political pressure.
"I think it's a very, very well-done news network, " said media expert and former White House correspondent Porter Bibb of Mediatech Capital Partners in New York, where he listens to a related network, Al Jazeera English, now available in a tiny fraction of U.S. markets.
Unhappy with Al Jazeera's coverage of the kingdom, the Saudis launched competing (but censored) Al Arabiya network and let it be known that any company found advertising on Al Jazeera would be barred from doing business in Saudi Arabia.
An investigation by Al-Jazeera, an international news network based in Qatar, could confirm only 60 active Twitter accounts in Tehran.
Colin Powell told Al that Al Jazeera is the only cable news network he watches (which he is able to do because Comcast carries it in the Washington, DC market).
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Dave Marash, the ABC News veteran who once worked for Al Jazeera English, told me the network has a "post-colonial" view of America and its stories can be infused with that attitude.
Earlier in the day, Marieme had watched news from ABC, CNN, Al Jazeera, the BBC and a Senegalese satellite network.
He established Al Jazeera the Arab world's ubiquitous television network, and began programmes to upgrade Qatar's educational, healthcare and infrastructure facilities funded by massive increases in hydrocarbon production.
The five POWs -- members of the 507th Maintenance Company, based at Fort Bliss, Texas -- were interviewed in a video from Iraqi state-run television broadcast on Al-Jazeera, the Arabic-language satellite network based in Qatar.
Al Jazeera has acquired Current TV, the cable television network founded by former US Vice President Al Gore.
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On its broadcast, the Al-Jazeera anchor did not say how the Arabic-language network received the videotape.
Al and I will both serve on the Advisory Board of Al Jazeera America, and we look forward to helping build an important news network.
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Luckily for Al Jazeera, its backers include the ruler of Qatar, the tiny Gulf emirate where the network is based.
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