The plot thickens and I'm not in the least surprised.
Britain Warns Media Over Al-Jazeera Report
Britain's attorney general, Lord Goldsmith, has threatened to prosecute any member of the news media under Section 5 of the Official Secrets Act if it reveals further contents of a document allegedly sent from the No. 10 Downing St. office/residence of Prime Minister Tony Blair and leaked to the London Daily Mirror The document purportedly discussed plans by President Bush to bomb the headquarters of the Arab news channel al-Jazeera in Doha, the capital of Qatar last year. A report concerning the document was front-paged Tuesday in the newspaper. Its publisher, Richard Wallace, responded to the government threat Tuesday night, saying: "We made No 10 fully aware of the intention to publish and were given 'no comment' officially or unofficially. Suddenly 24 hours later we are threatened under Section 5." The Mirror said that the memo "turned up" at the office of a former Labor member of Parliament. (British newspapers reported today (Wednesday) that last week Leo O'Connor, a former researcher in the office, was charged with receiving a secret document in violation of the Secrets Act from David Keogh, a former official of the Foreign Office, who was also charged.) Meanwhile, the White House called the reports "outlandish." However, several British reports have observed that al-Jazeera's offices in Iraq and Afghanistan have indeed been hit by U.S. bombs, although the U.S. military has always denied that the attacks were intentional. In a statement, the Arab network said that if the published documents turn out to be true, they "would cast serious doubts in regard to the U.S. administration's version of previous incidents involving Al-Jazeera's journalists and offices." Late today, Aidan White, general secretary of the International Federation of Journalists, which had previously demanded a full investigation of the attack on the al-Jazeera Baghdad office in which a cameraman was killed, said: "The evidence is stacking up to suggest that the U.S. decided to take out al-Jazeera in Baghdad, as a warning not only to them but to other media about their coverage. If true, it is an absolute scandal that the U.S. administration can regard the staff of al-Jazeera as a bunch of terrorists and a legitimate target."
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Britain's attorney general, Lord Goldsmith, has threatened to prosecute any member of the news media under Section 5 of the Official Secrets Act if it reveals further contents of a document allegedly sent from the No. 10 Downing St. office/residence of Prime Minister Tony Blair and leaked to the London Daily Mirror The document purportedly discussed plans by President Bush to bomb the headquarters of the Arab news channel al-Jazeera in Doha, the capital of Qatar last year. A report concerning the document was front-paged Tuesday in the newspaper. Its publisher, Richard Wallace, responded to the government threat Tuesday night, saying: "We made No 10 fully aware of the intention to publish and were given 'no comment' officially or unofficially. Suddenly 24 hours later we are threatened under Section 5." The Mirror said that the memo "turned up" at the office of a former Labor member of Parliament. (British newspapers reported today (Wednesday) that last week Leo O'Connor, a former researcher in the office, was charged with receiving a secret document in violation of the Secrets Act from David Keogh, a former official of the Foreign Office, who was also charged.) Meanwhile, the White House called the reports "outlandish." However, several British reports have observed that al-Jazeera's offices in Iraq and Afghanistan have indeed been hit by U.S. bombs, although the U.S. military has always denied that the attacks were intentional. In a statement, the Arab network said that if the published documents turn out to be true, they "would cast serious doubts in regard to the U.S. administration's version of previous incidents involving Al-Jazeera's journalists and offices." Late today, Aidan White, general secretary of the International Federation of Journalists, which had previously demanded a full investigation of the attack on the al-Jazeera Baghdad office in which a cameraman was killed, said: "The evidence is stacking up to suggest that the U.S. decided to take out al-Jazeera in Baghdad, as a warning not only to them but to other media about their coverage. If true, it is an absolute scandal that the U.S. administration can regard the staff of al-Jazeera as a bunch of terrorists and a legitimate target."
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