Assyrian International News Agency
The Assyrian International News Agency is a privately funded, independent news agency which provides news and analysis on Assyrian and Assyrian-related issues. It was founded by Peter BetBasoo and Firas Jatou in 1995.[1]
Background
The web site is registered to an address in Chicago, Illinois, belonging to Nineveh Software Corporation.[2]
AINA articles have been cited by Fox News[3], The Christian Post,[4] Crosswalk.com[5] and United Press International.[6]
Critical reception
Adam H. Becker of New York University[7] gives the AINA web site as an example of "those published by either ecclesiastical or nationalist-ethnic" Syriac Christian organizations who promote Assyrian continuity claims.[8]
References
- ^ BetBasoo, Peter. "About AINA". About AINA. AINA. http://www.aina.org/aboutaina.html. Retrieved 9 October 2011.
- ^ Whois aina.org search
- ^ "Report: Egyptian Muslims Torch 8 Christian Homes on Rumor of Church Construction"
- ^ "Assyrian Christians Raise Alarm Over Iraq Elections" - UNPO
- ^ "Egyptian Court Acquits Muslims Who Beheaded a Christian" - Crosswalk
- ^ "Sunni group warns Assyrians in Mosul". United Press International. July 2, 2008. http://www.upi.com/Top_News/Special/2008/07/02/Sunni-group-warns-Assyrians-in-Mosul/UPI-42881215036565/. Retrieved 2010-12-25. "A group calling itself "The Battalion of Just Punishment, Jihad Base in Mesopotamia" sent a letter to churches in northern Iraq threatening the Assyrian community for collaborating with U.S. forces and for seeking to establish an autonomous police force, Assyrian International News Agency said Wednesday."
- ^ http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/14225.html
- ^ Adam H. Becker, The Ancient Near East in the Late Antique Near East: Syriac Christian Appropriation of the Biblical East in Gregg Gardner, Kevin Lee Osterloh (eds.) Antiquity in antiquity: Jewish and Christian pasts in the Greco-Roman world, p. 395-396, 2008, Mohr Siebeck, ISBN 9783161494116
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