I had to do this.

Normally I don't post from my office. I am compelled now because of this.

" 'Bomb Jazeera' memo: Media warned

Thursday, November 24, 2005 Posted: 0106 GMT (0906 HKT)

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Al-Jazeera's newsroom in Doha, Qatar.


LONDON, England (CNN) -- The British government has warned news organizations against publishing details of a secret memo which one London tabloid newspaper said recounted discussions between Prime Minister Tony Blair and President Bush about bombing the headquarters of the Arabic news network Al-Jazeera.

The Daily Mirror reported Tuesday that Blair talked Bush out of launching an air strike against Al-Jazeera's headquarters in Qatar -- a U.S. ally -- during an April 16, 2004 meeting at the White House. "

"The Arabic-language network has been a frequent target of U.S. criticism, and its facilities in Afghanistan and Iraq have been hit by U.S. bombs.

If true, the Mirror report "would cast serious doubts" on U.S. statements that those strikes were accidental, the network said."

I remember similar accidental bombing of chinese embassy in Serbia or somewhere around that. Americans are reprehensible at times. They invoke God to do all sorts of stuff. They have god given right to spy on anybody (remember spy plane incident over chinese territory), bomb anybody with whom they don't agree...yet they can sermonise on human rights, axis of evil, war on terror...

I moan the fact that we live in such a false world.