TOTAL INFORMATION ANALYSIS

Friday, November 25, 2005

It's no wonder Tony Blair stopped Bush from bombing Al-Jazeera. Al-Jazeera is, after all, an MI6 asset.

Daily Mirror [UK] 22 November 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."

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John O'Sullivan, Editor-in-Chief of United Press International, said in a 2003 speech, referring to previous speaker Imad Musa, Washington Bureau of Al Jazeera: "I had hoped to refer to him as the only member of Al Jazeera who hadn't been a former employee of the World Service of the BBC, thus subtly hinting that Al Jazeera is really an MI6 operation."

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