Gagging Order as Two Are Jailed for Leaking Blair-Bush Memo

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A spokesman for the Stop the War Coalition condemned the prison sentences, adding: "While not a single government minister has been held to account for the disastrous policy of war in Iraq, two men are imprisoned for trying simply trying to shed some light on Tony Blair's relationship with George Bush."
He added: "The prison sentences are another sign of the double standards perpetrated in relation to the war."

An Old Bailey judge yesterday imposed gagging orders on the media after jailing a civil servant and a Labor MP's researcher for disclosing the minutes of a meeting between Tony Blair and George Bush about Iraq.

EXCLUSIVE: BUSH PLOT TO BOMB HIS ARAB ALLY
Madness of war memo

By Kevin Maguire And Andy Lines 22/11/2005
PRESIDENT Bush planned to bomb Arab TV station al-Jazeera in friendly Qatar, a "Top Secret" No 10 memo reveals.
But he was talked out of it at a White House summit by Tony Blair, who said it would provoke a worldwide backlash.
A source said: "There's no doubt what Bush wanted, and no doubt Blair didn't want him to do it." Al-Jazeera is accused by the US of fuelling the Iraqi insurgency
The attack would have led to a massacre of innocents on the territory of a key ally, enraged the Middle East and almost certainly have sparked bloody retaliation.
A source said last night: "The memo is explosive and hugely damaging to Bush.
"He made clear he wanted to bomb al-Jazeera in Qatar and elsewhere. Blair replied that would cause a big problem.
"There's no doubt what Bush wanted to do - and no doubt Blair didn't want him to do it."
A Government official suggested that the Bush threat had been "humorous, not serious".
But another source declared: "Bush was deadly serious, as was Blair. That much is absolutely clear from the language used by both men.">>>CONT