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Fighting al Jazeera propaganda

Washington Times:

British Attorney General Peter Goldsmith threatened yesterday to use the Official Secrets Act to block a newspaper from publishing details of a government memo that is reported to detail a threat by President Bush to attack the Arab world's biggest satellite television station, Al Jazeera.
Reports varied as to whether Mr. Bush was joking when he made the remark in a conversation with Prime Minister Tony Blair. Journalists at Al Jazeera, which is widely watched in the Arab world, were not amused. They demanded a full explanation from the U.S. president and an international investigation.
The two men met as Arab opinion was inflamed by coverage of fierce fighting between U.S. forces and insurgents in Fallujah, where four U.S. contractors had been brutally slain the week before.
On the day of the Bush-Blair meeting, Al Jazeera broadcast footage of kidnapped American soldier Keith Maupin, who had been seized a week earlier, sitting on a floor surrounded by masked gunmen.
The mass-circulation left-wing Daily Mirror emblazoned its front page Tuesday with the headline: "Bush Plot to Bomb his Arab Ally." The Mirror said the memo -- a transcript of a White House meeting between the two leaders in April 2004 -- showed Mr. Blair as dissuading Mr. Bush from attacking the television station.
The main body of the story did not mention bombing, but did claim that Mr. Bush had threatened "military action" against Al Jazeera at its headquarters in Qatar and other places.
Asked on Tuesday about the Mirror report, White House spokesman Scott McClellan told the Associated Press: "We are not interested in dignifying something so outlandish and inconceivable with a response."

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If the US was serious about taking them off the air, the cleanest way would be to knock out their satelite connection. They are an enemy propaganda organ and should be teated as such.