Bush plot to bomb al-Jazeera is a conspiracy theory, says Blair:

People who have seen the document say the real reason that it is being suppressed by the Government is because it contains a potentially damaging private discussion between the two leaders about the controversial United States attack on the Iraqi city of Fallujah last year.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/11/27/njaz27.xml



The leak that revealed Bush's deep obsession with al-Jazeera :

The US president planned to bomb the Qatar-based channel - that was the remarkable claim made in a top-secret memo. Why is the world's most powerful man so worried about a TV station?

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,1651765,00.html



Rumsfeld’s Al-Jazeera outburst:

Al-Jazeera was accused by Donald Rumsfeld, the American defence secretary, of broadcasting “vicious, inaccurate and inexcusable” reports about the war in Iraq the day before President George W Bush met Tony Blair at the White House and apparently suggested bombing the station’s headquarters.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-1892464,00.html


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