"The United States government's primary strategy with the Arab media has been to create its own outlets - the satellite-news station Al Hurra [3] and Radio Sawa - at a cost of $100 million, rather than engage aggressively with existing Arab media," notes the New York Times, in an in-depth article on Al Arabiya [4], a privately-owned TV news station established as "a more moderate alternative to Al Jazeera [5]." One station executive said, "To my surprise, the [Iraqi] opposition is doing better, P.R.-wise, than the official Americans and Iraqis, who are not as readily available for comment. ... The militants are ready with a video of masked men and a person available for comment a half-hour after the story breaks."