Al-Jazeera asks to see Bush 'bombing' transcript
January 17, 2006
Lawyers representing al-Jazeera yesterday demanded to see a Downing Street record of a conversation between Tony Blair and George Bush in which the US president said he wanted to bomb the Arabic satellite television station based in the Gulf state of Qatar.
The document is said to be a transcript of a conversation between the two leaders in April 2004. "Any thought of bombing al-Jazeera ... would be both morally wicked and legally indefensible," said Mark Stephens, the TV station's lawyer.
Downing Street has already said it has information "relevant" to the issue.
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Lawyers representing al-Jazeera yesterday demanded to see a Downing Street record of a conversation between Tony Blair and George Bush in which the US president said he wanted to bomb the Arabic satellite television station based in the Gulf state of Qatar.
The document is said to be a transcript of a conversation between the two leaders in April 2004. "Any thought of bombing al-Jazeera ... would be both morally wicked and legally indefensible," said Mark Stephens, the TV station's lawyer.
Downing Street has already said it has information "relevant" to the issue.
Link Here
posted by Kangaroo Brisbane Australia at 5:45 AM
1 Comments:
usual UK government excuses for not publishing stuff like this...
1. - the offical secrets act (which an excellent comedy programme pointed out is not for the purpose of protecting secres but for the purpose of protecting officials.
2. it was damaged in a fire/flood or some such thing.
3. 'under consideration' means they have lost the file. 'under ACTIVE consideration' means they are looking for it.
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