Bush plotted to Bomb Al Jazeera says report

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Bush plotted to bomb Al Jazeera: report
(AFP)

22 November 2005



LONDON - US President George W. Bush planned to bomb pan-Arab television broadcaster Al Jazeera, British newspaper the Daily Mirror said on Tuesday, citing a Downing Street memo marked "Top Secret".


The five-page transcript of a conversation between Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair reveals that Blair talked Bush out of launching a military strike on the station, unnamed sources told the anti-war-in-Iraq daily.

The transcript of the pair’s talks during Blair’s April 16, 2004 visit to Washington allegedly shows Bush wanted to attack the satellite channel’s headquarters.