"Even Al-Jazeera, the first all-news channel widely considered independent, is primarily a tool in the Qatari government's hands to consolidate its existence, and fight its media wars with Saudi Arabia, provoking anger in the Arab and Western world. Al-Quaeda's relationship to Al-Jazeera, thus, cannot be understood outside of this context: both parties' conflict with Saudi Arabia created a symbiotic mutually beneficial relationship binding them together." (Page 203)