Harry Hope wrote:

From The Financial Times, 11/23/05:
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/92fad322-5c58-11da-af92-0000779e2340.html

Qatar shock at al-Jazeera bombing report

By William Wallis in Cairo and Roula Khalaf in London


Qataris, including senior officials, reacted with shock on Wednesday
to newspaper reports in Britain suggesting that George W Bush, the US
president, had discussed bombing the Doha headquarters of the Arabic
satellite TV channel al-Jazeera.

The report, in Tuesday’s edition of the British Daily Mirror, was
based on what the newspaper reported were leaked minutes of a
conversation between Mr Bush and Tony Blair, Britain’s prime minister,
on April 16 2004.

On Tuesday the British government threatened newspapers with the
Official Secrets Act if they revealed contents of the document, a move
that reinforced suspicions in Qatar that the report might be genuine.

"I thought this was just a rumour, but now the UK has used the [threat
of the] secrecy act to stop it, it raises more questions. It makes
this high profile and we would be really interested to know what is
going on," a senior member of the ruling Al-Thani family said.

Both Downing Street and the White House have declined so far to
respond publicly to al-Jazeera requests for clarification.

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Move along, folks, nothing to see here. It's just George W. Bush
bringing democracy to the Middle East.

Harry

Happy Thanksgiving Harry.

Here's hoping you have many more ahead of you...

Miles "Our Most Enduring 24/7 News Correspondent" Long