The following are excerpts from a news broadcast on Al-Jazeera TV that aired on January 11, 2005:
Host: The Mayor of the greater London area, Ken Livingstone, said that the media campaign over the reception of Sheik Yousuf Al-Qaradhawi last June, and the distortion of the Sheik's image in British media back then was based mainly on the Middle East Media Research Institute, which was founded and is supervised by a former colonel in Israeli intelligence named Yigal Carmon.