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Britain Gags Report that Bush Targeted Arab TV

Many un-embedded, independent journalists have known for a long time that the U.S. had targeted Al-Jazeera. The United States has twice attacked Al-Jazeera offices. No one was hurt in the Kabul attack in 2002, while a journalist was killed the following year in Baghdad. The British Daily Mirror story referred to Bush's comments about attacking Al-Jazeera's headquarters in Doha, Qatar.

Accusations had also been made in the past that U.S. forces have deliberately targeted foreign and independent journalists. In light of the suppression of this new 'alleged leak' of a government memo, these accusations show more validity. Indeed, more journalists have been killed in Iraq than in Vietnam. The Bush administration stops at nothing to silence those who valiantly report events as they happen, and not their spin versions. There must be a full investigation by Downing Street, the Bush administraton and the world community into this latest report -- and into all the other reports and accusations by journalists against the U.S. -- and if they are found to be valid, those who issued the commands must face criminal charges.

I wonder if the U.S. mainstream media has picked up this story yet, or -- in their neutered state -- are too cowardly to even show any indignation at the deaths of their fellow comrades...

November 24, 2005

The British government has responded sharply to the alleged leak of a government memo that said U.S. President George W. Bush had thought about bombing the Arab satellite TV network Al-Jazeera.
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