Did Bush Plot to Blow Up Al Jazeera?
Posted on November 22, 2005
Update: White House Dismisses the Claim. Washington Post runs with it.
White House official said: “We are not going to dignify something so outlandish with a response.”
LONDON (AFP) – US President George W. Bush planned to bomb pan-Arab television broadcaster al-Jazeera, British newspaper the Daily Mirror said, 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 daily which is against the war in Iraq.
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.
Blair allegedly feared such a strike, in the business district of Doha, the capital of Qatar, a key western ally in the Persian Gulf, would spark revenge attacks.
The Mirror quoted an unnamed British government official as saying Bush’s threat was “humorous, not serious”.
Al-Jazeera’s perspectives on the war in Iraq have drawn criticism from Washington since the US-led March 2003 invasion.
The station has broadcast messages from Al-Qaeda terror network chief Osama bin Laden and the beheadings of Western hostages by insurgents in Iraq, as well as footage of dead coalition servicemen and Iraqi civilians killed in fighting.
A source told the Mirror: “The memo is explosive and hugely damaging to Bush.
Did the article mention that Al Jazeera was a broadcasting station for the enemy’s propaganda? Oh, it did? Well, I thought it was worth mentioning twice then. Damaging to Bush? Perhaps so, but I would have blown it to tiny bits if it were me. The far left should be glad they have Bush as president, and not me.
Hey, I’m just sayin! Al Jazeera enables, helps, and hides these thugs.
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What? Bush is planning attacks against terrorists? What is this world coming to?
I only have one thing to say… BOOM!
Oops.
Bush should not be afraid to do such a thing. Thanks to the media, Bush is losing support all over anyway, so nothing should keep him from doing the right thing. One might say Air America and other liberal media should be dealt with in a similair fashion, since they enable and give aid to terrorists of all sorts against the U.S. Last time I checked that was treason.
As the apostle said……Why stop at Al-J?
May I put the fuse in the bomb.
I am mad …I did not heard the BOOM!
Too bad CNN wasn’t included in his plans!
Interstingly enough, there could be a legitimate military basis for doing so. After all, the station broadcasts enemy propaganda, coded messages for al-Qaeda, and reports of US troop deployments. Blocking the signal or otherwise preventing it could be seen as a legitmate military move.
However, it would be very bad to act within a sovereign nation like Qatar, which has been reasonably friendly and supportive of our mission in the region.
All-in-all, this sounds like an overreaction to a comment like Reagan’s “the bombing starts in five minutes” sound check.
Clinton bombed serbian state tv. That terrorist.
I thought it should have been watched and then when the guys with the tapes came in then blow it up.
Another Downing Street Memo? This ought to keep the Kos kids busy for the next six months or so. I wonder why Bush settled on al-Jazz and not the NY Times.