(AFP/Yahoo) Iraqi Defense Minister Hazem Shaalan branded the Arabic-language satellite television Al-Jazeera a "channel of terrorism," in an interview in the London-based Arabic newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat. Shaalan charged that Iraqi "terrorist" Omar Hadeed, who he alleged has links to al-Qaeda, is a brother of Al-Jazeera's office director in Iraq, Hamed Hadeed, and that the journalist was receiving videos showing beheadings in Fallujah from his brother. Asharq Al-Awsat reported Friday that Hadeed, a former bodyguard of Saddam Hussein, is a top aide to Iraq's most wanted man, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, and that he led the battle against U.S. forces in Fallujah.
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