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Arab Brotherhood

September 30, 2010 · Mustapha Hamoui

Turned out it wasn’t the evil Zionists after all:

Mysterious jamming of TV broadcasts of the summer’s World Cup by the Arabic satellite channel al-Jazeera has been traced to Jordan, which appears to have retaliated angrily after the collapse of a deal that would have allowed football fans there free access to the matches.

So much for the theory that this was a scheme to sabotage Qatar’s bid to host the world cup..