Aljazeera.Net - Aljazeera demands answers from Blair
Aljazeera.Net - Aljazeera demands answers from Blair: "Aljazeera's general manager has flown to London to demand the British government explain the leaked report that US President George Bush wanted to bomb the TV station.
British newspaper The Daily Mirror reported that Bush told UK Prime Minister Tony Blair at a White House summit on 16 April 2004 that he wanted to launch military action on Aljazeera's headquarters in Doha, Qatar.
Blair is reported to have talked the American president out of any such action, but the British government has refused to give any comment on the truth of the Mirror's story.
'I have come to London in order to reach out to British officials, to investigate about the memo that some claim exists during the past week,' Aljazeera managing director Waddah Khanfar said.
'It is a matter of deep concern for all of us in Aljazeera, and the Arab world and the media.'"
British newspaper The Daily Mirror reported that Bush told UK Prime Minister Tony Blair at a White House summit on 16 April 2004 that he wanted to launch military action on Aljazeera's headquarters in Doha, Qatar.
Blair is reported to have talked the American president out of any such action, but the British government has refused to give any comment on the truth of the Mirror's story.
'I have come to London in order to reach out to British officials, to investigate about the memo that some claim exists during the past week,' Aljazeera managing director Waddah Khanfar said.
'It is a matter of deep concern for all of us in Aljazeera, and the Arab world and the media.'"
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