Akram Khuzam () was the Al Jazeera Channel's former

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Bureau chief. He served as the Bureau Chief in Moscow for 9 years until he was replaced in a storm of controversy by Amro Abdel-Hamid in late September 2005.دماء جديدة في (الجزيرة)
''Akhbaruna'', September 20, 2005 - an Arab language Russian news site that addresses human rights issues. Khuzam was known for ending his reports by saying "...Akram Khuzam, Aljazeera, Moscooowww."
'' Angry Arab News Service'', September 21, 2005 - a blog site

Anti-Muslim statements

Akram Khuzam angered the

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community in

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in 2004 by making

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statements. He declared to a Russian TV channel that Islam promotes terrorism and that the Qur'an incite violence, and he said that three of the Muslim

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were killed in internal terrorist conflicts. Mr. Geidar Dzhemal, the head of the Islamic Committee of Russia, asked Al Jazeera to fire Mr. Khuzam.Aljazeera Moscow Chief Fired
, ''

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'', September 20, 2005 Al Jazeera stated that the replacement of Akram Khuzam in September 2005 was not related to the complaints raised by the Islamic Committee and was unrelated to Mr Khuzam's statements.

Replacement as Moscow Bureau Chief

On the 20 September 2005 the news broke that Akram Khuzam was being replaced as the AlJazeera Moscow Bureau Chief. Initial reports incorrectly indicated that Mr. Khuzam had been fired but the Arabic site Akhbaruna confirmed that Mr. Khuzam had just been moved into a different role. It emerged that Al Jazeera had been concerned about the way the former Soviet bloc was being covered and wanted to invigorate its coverage by recruiting the widely acclaimed Russian Arab journalist Amro Abdel-Hamid to replace Akram Khuzam. Mr. Abdel-Hamid was formerly the head of the

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office in Moscow before joining Al Jazeera.

References

External links

Akram Khuzam and Al Jazeera - the inside story

Akram Khuzam gets replaced by former Al-Arabiya correspondent
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