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Fri - Sept 24 -

AMBIVALENCE -

*The issue of foreign hostages in Iraq was examined this week on the most heated discussion programme on the Middle East's most-watched television station, al-Jazeera.

In the programme The Opposite Direction ["Point/Counterpoint"], a fiercely anti-American political analyst, Talat Rumayh, faced off against an Iraqi politician, Karim Badr...*

And *In a phone poll 93% supported the kidnappings.*

:: BBC - Arabs ambivalent... ::

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