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'''Al Hurra''' (or Alhurra), "the free one," is the new Arabic-language American satellite TV channel based in Virigina, financed by Congress, and "beamed across the Arab world" and "aimed at viewers in the Middle East."
Dubbed as the "American answer to [[Al Jazeera]], the station went online Saturday, February 14, 2004.[http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1149371,00.html][http://www.islam-online.net/English/News/2004-02/16/article09.shtml] The ''Washington Post'' described Al Hurra as "the U.S. government's largest and most expensive effort to sway foreign opinion over the airwaves since the creation of Voice of America in 1942."[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33564-2004Oct14.html]