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The Jordan Times has reported that the Jordanian government responded to Al Jazeera’s claims regarding the World Cup jamming on Saturday, and asked the satellite channel to provide the documents that claim Jordan was behind jamming the broadcast of several matches. The government has urged the channel to send a team of experts and officials from Al Jazeera to examine the facts. The official added that the allegations are baseless and unacceptable, and that the government will not allow any party to harm the reputation and image of Jordan.

The Guardian has reported that jamming of TV broadcasts of the FIFA World Cup matches by Al Jazeera has been traced to Jordan. Confidential documents seen exclusively by the Guardian, trace five episodes of jamming definitively to a location near as-Salt in Jordan, according to the source.

Gulf News reports that Al-Jazeera television's sports coverage was hit by outages during the opening match of the football World Cup by what the company claims was sabotage. Al-Jazeera Sport, which has exclusive transmission rights of the event in the Arab world, was deliberately jammed on the Nilesat and Arabsat satellites, said a statement issued late on Friday.