Doha-based satellite channel Al-Jazeera and Dubai's Al-Arabiya television channel on 26 November condemned scathing comments made by US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld the previous day, in which he said there was evidence linking the two channels and anti-coalition forces in Iraq. 'To say that Al-Jazeera has previous knowledge of the attacks is utterly not true', said Al-Jazeera spokesman Jihad Ballout. 'The only comment we have is that [Rumsfeld] has to show the evidence,' said Al-Arabiya editor-in-chief Salah Negm. 'We have never broadcast tapes of attacks as they happen, it was always the aftermath. We arrive there at the scene like everyone else.'