There are no ties between them.  How could there be any ties.  Al Jazeera is a facilitator of the news, they don’t document, they don’t report with an unbiased eye; they just show you anything and everything that is shocking, horrific and brutal.  They are an extension of a problem.  They incite the most insidious acts perpetrated by one man, upon another.  They do not affiliate themselves with the suicide bombers or the Sadam Loyalists, they just put the beheading, and bombing victims blood and body parts out there for all to see.   If you would say the some of the media do this same thing, then I would say that they justify their behavior by exposing bad behavior and calling it just that, whereas the Al Jazeera do not have social justice as their motivation.   Perhaps, some of the more liberal media do this same kind of sensational broadcasting, but the view knows their political sympathies, and can at least attribute their behavior to having that purpose.  Al Jazeera, is what it is and they report as they do simply because they can.