Monday, November 28, 2005

Did Bush Want To Bomb Al Jazeera

In the Guardian Unlimited is a story: "Reports that George Bush and Tony Blair discussed a plan to bomb al-Jazeera reinforce concerns that the US attack in Baghdad on April 8 [2003] was deliberate targeting of the media," said Aidan White, the general secretary of the nternational Federation of Journalists. The Daily Mirror claimed last week a leaked memo revealed that the US president last year discussed plans to attack al-Jazeera's Qatar HQ with Mr Blair.

"We are not going to dignify something so outlandish with a response," a White House official said. A Downing Street spokesman added: "We have got nothing to say about this story. We don't comment on leaked documents."

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