[TELEVISION WATCH] How powerful is the World Cup? Months after the 2010 World Cup ended in South Africa, diplomatic tensions between Jordan and Qatar arerising. The dispute? The popular Arab television network Al-Jazeera’s claim that widespread technical problems with its World Cup broadcasts were caused by a sophisticated jamming operation tracedback to Jordan.

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