The overwhelming majority of opinion amongst the Arabic media seems to be that the US acted in order to prevent the reporting of war crimes perpetrated by American personnel; the attack on Al Jazeera was thus deliberate, a theory which seems to have support from Robert Fisk.
Despois deste ataque, a maioría das opinións revelan que este ataque se produciu para acalar os medios árabes para non contar os crimes de guerra perpetrados polos estadounidense; sendo a ataque a Al Jazeera totalmente deliberado, teoría que defende por exemplo Robert Fisk.