{"id":2297,"date":"2006-01-18T10:41:09","date_gmt":"2006-01-18T14:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.test.bradblog.com\/?p=2297"},"modified":"2006-01-18T10:41:09","modified_gmt":"2006-01-18T14:41:09","slug":"al-jazeera-sues-uk-for-bush-bomb-threat-memo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=2297","title":{"rendered":"Al-Jazeera Sues U.K. for ‘Bush Bomb Threat’ Memo"},"content":{"rendered":"

Guest blogged by David Edwards<\/a><\/b><\/i><\/p>\n

<\/a>Last November, The Daily Mirror<\/i> published details<\/a> of a “top secret” U.K. memo revealing that President Bush wanted to bomb headquarters for the al-Jazeera news network. At the time, The Mirror<\/i> quoted its’ source saying:<\/p>\n

“He made clear he wanted to bomb al-Jazeera in Qatar and elsewhere. Blair replied that would cause a big problem.<\/p>\n

“There’s no doubt what Bush wanted to do – and no doubt Blair didn’t want him to do it.”\n<\/div>\n

While the story has gone largely unnoticed in the U.S., British media and al-Jazeera have continued investigating. Check out this earlier Brad Blog report<\/a> for more backstory.<\/p>\n

Political pressure to release the memo increased this week when British lawyers retained by the al-Jazeera network announced a lawsuit<\/a> filed against the U.K. that requests the leaked memo be made public. Soon after, Downing Street officially denied that the memo has anything to do with the bombing of al-Jazeera. But the Downing Street spokesperson would not reveal<\/a> what the memo did say.<\/p>\n

In the following video, Sky News<\/i> reports on the new lawsuit and the mounting political pressure.<\/p>\n

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