Widow of Al Jazeera Correspondent Tareq Ayoub Filing Lawsuit Against Bush

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Democracy Now
Widow of Al Jazeera Correspondent Tareq Ayoub Filing Lawsuit Against Bush Administration for Husband's Death in 2003 U.S. Attack on Baghdad Bureau
Wednesday, July 12th, 2006
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/07/12/146205

The widow of Al Jazeera correspondent Tareq Ayyoub is bringing a lawsuit against the Bush administration for her husband's death. On April 8 2003, Ayyoub was reporting from Al Jazeera"s offices in Baghdad when he was killed by a US missile. He was the first journalist to be killed in Iraq just hours before U.S. forces seized the capital.

Yesterday, the attorney for Dima Tahboub, the widow of Tareq Ayyoub, held a press conference in Washington D.C announcing the lawsuit. The attorney, Hamdi Rifai, said the case is being launched in part because of the disclosure last year in London's Daily Mirror that President Bush told British Prime Minister Tony Blair of his desire to bomb Al Jazeera's headquarters in Qatar. The Mirror cited a secret memo leaked from the British government.