Salon.com Politics: "'The main thing is that Arabs are deeply offended when the United States government tries to improve its image by better communication, and not by dropping less bombs and missiles on their heads. It's a common misassumption that Arabs need Al Jazeera to be anti-American. Arabs are already more anti-American than Al Jazeera.' AbuKhalil points to the growing circulation on the Web of doctored photos depicting shocking acts of abuse by U.S. soldiers, as another measure of the gravity of the torture scandal. 'People are sending me pictures that are faked. The real pictures are so shocking already that any outrageous pornographic pictures are now believed to be real,' he says. 'Some militant groups are creating images to further inflame the situation. These pictures are circulating wildly in the Middle East. I put up a notice on my Web site saying that I don't want them. But they are being believed.' " --Jeff Horwitz