Bush wanted to bomb Al-Jazeera's studios

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by DRoseDARs
Erm, the British government just did that. If the memo were nothing more than tabloid rumor and wasn't real, they wouldn't have bothered invoking the Official Secrets Act.

What remains to be seen is whether or not Bush honestly meant it as a joke.

Read the second sentence realpolitic wrote.

Looks like MrFunism is spreading!

[DRoseDARs]

I'm confused and hungry. I'm going to go play my bad-patched cIV and eat some bbq roastbeef sandwiches now...

[Ted Striker]

Originally posted by Oncle Boris

Blair has openly threatened any media that would publish further information about the memo. Isn't that frightening?

Yep, that's the biggest proof of authenticity there is.

[child of Thor]

Originally posted by DRoseDARs
edit......

What remains to be seen is whether or not Bush honestly meant it as a joke.

"No General - I said 'lets just nuke the ****ers' , it was a joke! I'm a head of state - so i couldn't possibly mean you to follow my orders on something like that could i?!"

[Sandman]

I'm still thinking this can't be true. It's too insane, even for Bush.

On the other hand, Serbian TV stations were targetted during the Kosovo campaign. Maybe this is just a 'logical extension' of that doctrine.

[Bosh]

Americans would never bomb al-Jazeera, the very idea of it is completely abusrd!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2927527.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/1653887.stm

I really hope that all this is a coincidence...

[Ted Striker]

The Vice President is currently arguing for a torture expemption.

He's not just doing it secretly either, he's doing it in public.

At this point, anything is possible.

[Ted Striker]

Originally posted by Bosh
Americans would never bomb al-Jazeera, the very idea of it is completely abusrd!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2927527.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/1653887.stm

I really hope that all this is a coincidence...

I had never seen those stories before.


Now that you posted them, it is 100% probability that both the Afghanistan and the Baghdad offices were both intentionally targeted.

The missle just "happened" to hit the electical generator?

100% intentional.

[germanos]

Originally posted by Ted Striker


I had never seen those stories before.

[Ted Striker]

Yep

We pretty much get a filter of what Europe sees

Especially back in 2003, the press was much more compliant about keeping these things queit than they are now.

[Ted Striker]

I didn't know we were holding one of their cameramen in Guantanamo either:

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Men and women stood outside Al-Jazeera's Doha, Qatar offices on Thursday holding signs in Arabic and in English, one reading "Don't bomb the messenger." Another sign read "Hostage of Truth" over a photo of Sami al-Hajj, an Al-Jazeera cameraman imprisoned at the U.S. military facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Al-Hajj was detained in Afghanistan, and the network has been asking for his release.

Employees staged similar protests at bureaus in Cairo, Beirut, and Ramallah, with banners condemning U.S. President George Bush.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/11/24/jazeera.protest/index.html

[Ninot]

Why does the Bush Administration hate free speach?

[Chemical Ollie]

Originally posted by Ted Striker


I had never seen those stories before.

You were probably too busy posting Britney pictures in the threads where the rest of us were discussing those attacks.

USA USA USA !!!!

[Pekka]

Ted, you prolly just missed that part of the news, it was pretty big news then... I'm sure they didn't miss that one in there.

[Ted Striker]

I'm still no Al Jazerra fan, they are the middle east equivalent of Fox News.

But bombing their studios is obviously criminal.