Bush Grants Interviews to Arab Networks One Arab Network and a Shill
By Robin Wright and Fred Barbash
Washington Post Staff Writers
Wednesday, May 5, 2004; 10:21 AM
President Bush will conduct two interviews today on networks broadcast to the Arab world as part of the administration's efforts to limit damage from revelations of prisoner abuse at a U.S. run prison in Iraq.
Bush will do the interviews this morning with the U.S.-sponsored al-Hurra television network and the Arab network al-Arabiya, White House spokesman Scott McClellan said last night.
"This is an opportunity for the president to speak directly to the people in Arab nations and let them know that the images that we all have seen are shameless and unacceptable," McClellan said.