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Radio brings U.S. voice to Middle East

By Michael Dobbs The Washington Post

It was 9:45 p.m. in Washington, 5:45 the next morning in Baghdad. Fadel
Meshaal, an Iraqi free-lance journalist working for a U.S. government radio
station, was being interviewed from a studio on the Mall as the air raid
sirens began to wail.

For the next five hours, Meshaal described the scene in the Iraqi capital
for Radio Sawa's listeners around the Arab world: loud explosions, deserted
streets, heated denunciations of Washington in the official Iraqi press. His
reports from Baghdad were interspersed with interviews from northern Iraq
with opponents of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.

The opening barrage of live news reports on Radio Sawa