To think about how remarkable this is, imagine an American news anchor simply reading article after article from newspapers in Tehran, or Mosul, or even Paris.

In a way, that's the paradox of Al-Jazeera's war journalism: It is flagrantly political, but accompanied by a real curiosity about other perspectives.

From 2004:

"You can't talk sense to them," Bush said, referring to terrorists.

"Nooooo!" the audience roared.

From 2005:

I'm not signing anything until I read it, or someone gives me the gist of it.

From this week:

He seemed curiously incurious about vital details, such as the conduct of the war in Iraq.