The US administration has demanded that the government of the Persian State of Qatar cut down the financing of Al-Jazeera television network, slamming its partial coverage of the events in Iraq.

Secretary of State Colin L. Powell raised the issue in front of a delegation headed by Qatari Foreign Minister Sheik Hamad bin Jassim bin Jabir al Thani.

In the words of Powell the false and inflammatory anti-American coverage of Iraq by the Qatar-based Arab television network hampers the relations between the two countries.

State Department spokesman Richard Boucher has shown "tendentious" reports Al Jazeera broadcast on April 9 from Iraq. He quoted one of them as saying that "children are being killed and women cut to pieces" by American troops in the Sunni stronghold of Fallujah.

US claims that the country's leader, Emir Sheik Hamad bin Khalifa al Thani, has the biggest financial stake in the network.

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