Al-Jazeera news channel said on Tuesday it has decided not to air a video shot by an Islamist extremist of shootings in southwest France that it had received by mail. “In accordance with Al-Jazeera’s code of ethics, given the video does not add any information that is not already in the public domain, its news channels will not be broadcasting any of its contents,” the Doha-based network said. The pan-Arab channel that earned initial fame after airing recordings of Al-Qaeda’s late chief, Osama bin Laden, said it has declined “numerous requests from media outlets for copies of the video.” It said that the Paris office received the video from an anonymous source on Monday, titled in French “Al-Qaeda attaque la France” (Al-Qaeda attacks France), adding that it “immediately” turned it over to French police. French police said Monday they had copies of the videos, shot by Mohamed Merah during a series of killings that left seven dead, that had been sent on a USB memory stick to Al-Jazeera’s office in Paris. French President Nicolas Sarkozy, in mid-campaign for re-election, urged television networks Tuesday not to broadcast the video. Al-Jazeera’s Paris bureau chief, Zied Tarrouche, told AFP that the channel found no interest in airing the video. “Ethically speaking, we found that there was nothing new in it.
