UK gags paper over Aljazeera memo

[kentuck]

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/171A7C64-F5C0-41EF-A613-EBA745ACEF7A.htm

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Britain's Daily Mirror newspaper has been ordered to cease publishing further details from an allegedly top secret memo revealing that US President George Bush wanted to bomb Aljazeera.


The gag order from Attorney-General Lord Goldsmith came nearly 24 hours after the paper published details of what it said was a transcript of talks between Bush and the British Prime Minister Tony Blair.

In those talks, which took place during the prime minister's April 2004 visit to Washington, Blair is said to have talked Bush out of launching "military action" on the television channel's headquarters in Doha, Qatar.

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But the attorney-general warned that publication of any further details from the document would be a breach of the Official Secrets Act.


(on edit) don't know what happened with post title???

[ClusterFreak]

1. What's the deal with the weird headline?

Nevermind!

[kentuck]

2. I have no idea where that came from???

maybe it's because it is a link from al Jazeera?? :)