Al-Jazeera slanted reports to improve Qatar's relations?

Qatar has always claimed that al-Jazeera was independent of the Qatari government. But is it so? A Wikileaks cable claims otherwise. Qatar used al-Jazeera as a diplomatic bargaining chip, US elements claimed in a cable leaked by the WikiLeaks website.Britain's Guardian newspaper reported that in a cable sent in November 2009, US representatives in Doha contradicted the Qatari claim that Al