Al Jazeera has proven to be way more professional and less biased than CNN in the recent year to me at least. Stuff like
this,
this,
this and
this is a common place, which makes CNN look like a pathetic celebrity gossip and twitter feed ridden garbage in comparison.
Al Jazeera, I always had something against that TV station for some reason, until I actually started watching it. Now it's my favo source of news when it comes to (live) massive events occurring.
yeah, al jazeera was very good when it came to the egyptian revolution. not nearly as balanced as the bbc, imo, but it's definately a refreshing angle.
if there's anything i can add, it's that i'm glad that they didn't go in before the royal wedding. wouldn't have taken much for some nutcase to throw a grenade in among the crowds on pall mall.
also, whilst the Pakistan intelligence agency knowing *nothing* about his presence in the country is pretty suspicious, i'm still sympathetic to the governments position. Pakistan has little to gain from supporting an agency that has done more damage to their people than any other; far more likely that there are individuals, or groups of people, within the government who are corrupt or who have sympathies with Bin Laden and co, rather than the government as a whole. also, it seems unlikely that they knew nothing about the raid - if four unidentified helicopters are seen swarming into the airspace near one of their militairy establishments, are they seriously not going to fight back without prior knowledge that they're friendlies?
so, on the whole, it's a symbol of the US reasserting their world authority, seeing as it's been dwindling - Russia are already criticising them for their limited open co-operation, it's the same old power game. whilst China being on the up might make it irrelevant, in the meantime, the success of this 'purely American' (apparantly) op = US got its swag back.