The Guardian: MPs leaked Bush plan to hit al-Jazeera

Two Labour MPs have defied the Official Secrets Act by passing on the contents of a secret British document revealing how President George Bush wanted to bomb the Arabic TV station, al-Jazeera.

The document, a transcript of a meeting between Mr Bush and Tony Blair in April 2004 when the prime minister expressed concern about US military tactics in Iraq, is already the subject of an unprecedented official secrets prosecution in Britain, against an aide to one of the MPs and another man.

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(There’s still a bunch of us willing to publish (a la Craig Murray’s telegrams) if anybody out there has a copy of the memo they want to pass on.)

The Guardian: US troops seize award-winning Iraqi journalist
American troops in Baghdad yesterday blasted their way into the home of an Iraqi journalist working for the Guardian and Channel 4, firing bullets into the bedroom where he was sleeping with his wife and children.


Posted on January 9th, 2006 at 12:04 pm

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