Bush Planned to Bomb Al-Jazeera HQS: Mirror - is this a reliable source?

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Additional Reporting By Khaled Mamdouh, IOL Staff

CAIRO, November 22, 2005 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) - US President George W. Bush planned to bomb pan-Arab satellite channel Al-Jazeera but he was talked out of the idea by British Prime Minister Tony Blair, according to a British daily report Tuesday, November 22, citing a Downing Street memo marked "Top Secret".

"There's no doubt what Bush wanted, and no doubt Blair didn't want him to do it," the Daily Mirror quoted an unnamed source as commenting on the leaked memo.

The five-page transcript of a conversation between Bush and Blair during the Prime Minister's April 16, 2004 visit to Washington reportedly shows Bush wanted to attack the satellite channel's headquarters.

According to the Mirror, Blair feared such a strike, in the business district of Doha, the capital of Qatar, a key western ally in the Gulf, would spark revenge attacks.

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