Bush al-Jazeera 'plot' dismissed (White House official)

keep my mouth shut about this one.

zip a rocket right thru the window of one of al-Jazeera's facilities.
I seem to remember another response that killed one of their reporters on a rooftop.

Maybe the WH line should be "We've already responded to that."

We'll just dismiss it as just another conspiracy theory.

If they deny it, it happened.

Simple logic.

Bush wanted al jazeera bombed.

so I guess I should believe them on this.
The fact that this came up so quickly and that Blair's recent statement Guantanamo 'must be stopped', which for political survival tries to separate himself from the WH has no truth either
( Link here:)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1941618

I can't help but think that
the river in Egypt has very wide banks and is running at flood stage.

If they say it didn't happen, it did.

for no good reason, we know he's an evil moron. This might prove that Blair is a better person than Bush after all, but it could hardly prove to me that Bush is more evil. Who doesn't believe he deliberately killed members of the media, anyway? If they release the document, and it says what they say, and it wasn't a joke, it's just one more bit of evidence to demonstrate what we already know, and for the Republicans to pretend just doesn't matter.

LONDON - A civil servant has been charged under Britain's Official Secrets Act for allegedly leaking a government memo that a newspaper said Tuesday suggested that Prime Minister Tony Blair persuaded President Bush not to bomb the Arab satellite station Al-Jazeera.

The Daily Mirror reported that Bush spoke of targeting Al-Jazeera's headquarters in Doha, Qatar, when he met Blair at the White House on April 16, 2004. The Bush administration has regularly accused Al-Jazeera of being nothing more than a mouthpiece for anti-American sentiments.

The Daily Mirror attributed its information to unidentified sources. One source, said to be in the government, was quoted as saying that the alleged threat was "humorous, not serious," but the newspaper quoted another source as saying that "Bush was deadly serious, as was Blair."

Blair's office declined to comment on the report, stressing it never discusses leaked documents.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051122/ap_on_re_eu/britain_iraq_2

From canoe, via CLG:

LONDON (AP) - A British civil servant has been charged under the Official Secrets Act for allegedly leaking a government memo that, according to a newspaper report Tuesday, suggests that Prime Minister Tony Blair persuaded President George W. Bush not to bomb the Arab satellite station Al-Jazeera.

According to the Daily Mirror, Bush spoke of targeting Al-Jazeera's headquarters in Doha, Qatar, when he met Blair at the White House on April 16 last year. The U.S. government has regularly accused Al-Jazeera of being a mouthpiece for anti-American sentiments.

Blair's Downing Street office declined to comment on the report.

In Qatar, Al-Jazeera said it was aware of the report, but did not wish to comment at this stage.

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Smirk doesn't joke. He was dead serious.

This should be a huge story.

in Baghdad anyway?

"accidentally" of course.

Herr Bremer's reign in Baghdad...kicked the employees out and locked the doors behind them.

They just cannot stand any media that would DARE to report anything that contradicted what they say (aka, the Truth).

for stating at a conference that the US military targeted journalists?

such truths, he should speak out.

true, why not just say it is not true. If my wife asks me if it is true that I am cheating on her, I am going to say "No!", not "I am not going to dignify that with a response."

:kick:

LONDON, England (CNN) -- The White House characterized as "outlandish" Tuesday a British newspaper report that President Bush once discussed bombing the headquarters of Arabic-language television network Al-Jazeera with Prime Minister Tony Blair.

Al-Jazeera, based in Qatar, called on the British government to confirm or deny the report, which appeared Tuesday in the Daily Mirror, a London tabloid.

The network has been a frequent target of U.S. criticism, and its facilities have been hit by U.S. bombs in Afghanistan and Iraq. Al-Jazeera said the Daily Mirror report would be "both shocking and worrisome" if true.

<snip>
American bombs struck the network's Kabul office during the U.S. assault on Afghanistan in 2001.

During the 1999 air campaign over Kosovo, U.S. warplanes targeted Yugoslavia's state television network. NATO officials argued it was a legitimate target as the propaganda arm of the Yugoslav government.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/11/22/us.al.jazeera/index.html

Bushco prefers to take out journalists one at a time. Keeps them all nervous, that way.

Usually they never comment on these things.

It must be true.

these days. Just did a search of the news for Downing Street Memo, and all the recent articles are about this incident. But they're not the same memo, are they? Is someone purposefully trying to confuse the issues? Is this one false and the other true, are they both true and the leakers are out to get Bush and Blair? So many questions, so little time. :shrug:

swept under the rug, same as the DSM.
There is so much going on with this bunch, so much to defend/deny/lie about, so little time. :)

I do not think it means what you think it means...

in·con·ceiv·a·ble Pronunciation Key (nkn-sv-bl)
adj.

1. Impossible to comprehend or grasp fully: inconceivable folly; an inconceivable disaster.
2. So unlikely or surprising as to have been thought impossible; unbelievable: an inconceivable victory against all odds.