US President George Bush planned to bomb Arab broadcaster Aljazeera, British newspaper, the Daily Mirror reports, citing a Downing Street memo marked “Top Secret”.
The five-page transcript of the pair’s talks during Blair’s 16 April 2004 visit to Washington allegedly shows Bush wanted to attack the satellite channel’s headquarters in Doha, Qatar and that Blair talked him out of it.
The attack would have led to a massacre of innocents on the territory of a key US and Western ally and enraged the Middle East, maybe even leading to bloody retaliation.
So this is what Bush plans for his strongest and closest allies!
And this is how the leader of the “free” world believes in “Freedom of press, media and expression”?!
Should be very reassuring…
[Sources: Daily Mirror, Al Jazeera]
I thought there were more sophesticated ways to get rid off a TV-Channel! I read that one of the sources who reported this specified that Bush was joking…Joking or not I can imagine that he wished that aljazeera diseappears, but I don’t think that he really means bombing…This is ridiculous
Joking or not, the President needs to be more aware of how his words are perceived in the Arab world. He’s a continual diplomatic nightmare.
W est fou tout le monde le sait. mais pas au point de bombarder le siege d une chaine tele. de surcroit Al Jazeera. il l e ptet dit pour deconner avec son chien d ami de blair. et puis le mirror est un tabloid, un journal de caniveau pour lequel bush et britney spears sont des stars qui permettent de vendre son torchon.
on se rend compte que ce n’