New leaked memo (10)

1 Name: Sling!XD/uSlingU 2005-11-22 15:26 ID:drNOOxhy

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/articles/PA_NEWA70168081132615588A00
"There were calls for Downing Street to publish the transcript of a conversation between Tony Blair and US President George Bush, amid claims that [on April 16 last year] the Prime Minister persuaded Mr Bush not to launch a military strike on a TV station in a friendly Arab state.

According to unnamed sources quoted in the Daily Mirror, the memo - stamped Top Secret - records Mr Bush suggesting that he might order the bombing of Al-Jazeera's studios in Qatar."

"Al-Jazeera had sparked the anger of the US administration by broadcasting video messages from al Qaida head Osama bin Laden and leaders of the insurgency in Iraq, as well as showing footage of the bodies of US servicemen and Iraqi civilians killed in fighting."

"A spokesman for 10 Downing Street refused to discuss the leaked memo."

2 Name: Unverified Source 2005-11-22 16:38 ID:XewfGTIB

Only 3 more years with that jerk, unless someone finds a good enough reason to impeach him. Or he is "accidentally" assassinated.

3 Name: Sling!XD/uSlingU 2005-11-23 03:12 ID:drNOOxhy

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1885279,00.html
"[UK] NEWSPAPERS editors were threatened with prosecution under the Official Secrets Act last night if they published details"

"The Blair Government has obtained court injunctions against newspapers before but it has never prosecuted editors for publishing the contents of leaked documents."

"the Editor of the Daily Mirror, said last night: “We made No 10 fully aware of the intention to publish and were given ‘no comment’ officially or unofficially. Suddenly 24 hours later we are threatened under Section 5.”"

4 Name: Unverified Source 2005-11-23 21:16 ID:6L8zglT4

>>3
The government is hiding documents from the press under the guise of "sensitive information"? I'm utterly shocked!

5 Name: Sling!XD/uSlingU 2005-11-24 02:11 ID:drNOOxhy

If the cat was out of the bag, why is the uk gov so nervous about it? Methinks they are more cats in that bag.

6 Name: Sling!XD/uSlingU 2005-11-24 03:57 ID:drNOOxhy

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/blog/2005/11/23/BL2005112300460.html
"Could the president of the United States have conceivably believed it would have been a good idea to blow up the offices of a news organization that is respected in much of the Arab world, killing innocent people in the process?

Would he have sent American fighter planes into Qatar, a Middle East ally?

Could he have thought this would somehow advance U.S. foreign policy at a time when we're trying to persuade Iraqis of the virtues of democracy?

I'm sorry, it just doesn't add up. (Yes, I know the U.S. bombed al-Jazeera's Kabul office during the 2001 war, but I have no reason to disbelieve the explanation that it was an accident.)"

7 Name: Unverified Source 2005-11-24 12:52 ID:7kBFQvgG

>>1,3,5,6 is Dr. Noo!

8 Name: Sling!XD/uSlingU 2005-11-24 13:20 ID:0Ry2BZ9E

what

9 Name: Unverified Source 2005-11-25 11:45 ID:Heaven

ID:drNOOxhy

10 Name: Sling!XD/uSlingU 2005-11-25 14:29 ID:Heaven

0 Ry? So that was the xhy.

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