Do you have some special knowledge to indicate that this was done with permission?
When reprinting it's common to include a 'with permission of' or 'originally published in' or especially 'translated from the original'. I might have missed it, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't there.
I've been watching and reading AJ (in both Arabic and English) for >10 years, and I've never seen them do something like this i.e. blatant plagiarism. Actually, I don't think any reputable news org would ever do that on purpose.
