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LONDON, England (CNN) -- The White House characterized as "outlandish" Tuesday a British newspaper report that President Bush once discussed with Prime Minister Tony Blair bombing the headquarters of Arabic-language television network Al-Jazeera.

Al-Jazeera, based in Qatar, called on the British government to confirm or deny the report, which appeared Tuesday in the Daily Mirror, a London tabloid.

The network has been a frequent target of U.S. criticism, and its facilities have been hit by U.S. bombs in Afghanistan and Iraq. Al-Jazeera said the Daily Mirror report would be "both shocking and worrisome" if true.

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This would neither "shock" nor "awe" me. It makes me sick.

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    i remember this as it was happening , but there is a bit more to it than what appears on the surface . 


   Al jezeera was not the innocent media outlet they were proclaiming themselves to be. they were an active player in the war against us ,  they were warned a few times , they stopped , end of story.  


                   working from memory here ...



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So we're promoting freedom of the press, as long as they agree with us... gotcha. Just making sure.


 



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So, then if say Wkkk in your neighborhood decides it doesn't like the Bush White House, then F-15, B-1s and that could take em out? (Transmitter Penetrators?) WAY FR=nCH!N& COOL!


Drop bombs on ANY 1000 watt radio station in Jerkwater Junction and stop that dirty D.J. who sympathizes with ______________ (BeeGees, bad politics, road salt..) etc.


Waddya say USA? Let's kill them all and let Mike sort em out. YEAH BABY, Now THAT'S DEMOCRACY AT WORK!!


USA, all the way, USA, all the way!  To where?      


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Mindcrime wrote:

So we're promoting freedom of the press, as long as they agree with us... gotcha. Just making sure.  


no , it was not about freedom of the press , which by the by is a place you should not go regarding the state approved al jazeera , anyway as documented in the debka.com al jazeera was at the very least not warning coalition members of pending ambushes and homacide bombings so that they could be sure that they had a reporter and film crew in plce to record the event -  it was suspected at the time that some al jazeera employees were more involved than that - so they were warned to not be involved or face the consequences .   


it appears they have not completly disengaged .... see below . 


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it looks like they are up to their old tricks , they were warned as i remember ;



 


culled from here ; http://frontpagemagazine.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=20246



Though the American media is slow to report it, U.S. forces are relentlessly destroying Zarqawi's senior leadership. A November 2 air strike killed two senior al Qaeda operatives in Iraq: Abu Zahra, the so-called Emir of Husaybah, ran all insurgent operations in that Iraqi city, and Asadallah, Zarqawi's key recruiter. U.S. forces have now confirmed the identities of both dead terrorists.


On October 23, U.S. forces captured Abu Hassan, the head of al-Zarqawi's media cell. Hassan was responsible for producing video tapes of insurgent attacks to give to al-Jazeera and other television networks. Hassan even produced forged police and press passes to allow insurgents to case targets and film the devastation following insurgent attacks.



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MonsterMike writes-"They were an active player in the war against us.." They sure were! They're STILL lobbing radio waves all over the place. Maybe we could knock them out with a 'PREEMPTIVE STRIKE'?  AlRadioAnnouncer--"We interrupt this prerecorded program of towel-headed music to preempt prayers and bring you a US lead preemptive attack."  After all, they might say something nasty about the USA in their derelict dialect.." Kruudish, or whatever.  OR, it could be used to give "signals," like--


When the Tabla plays high 'C' note, Attack...lalalalalaeeeeealalalakerdoon. Run for the hills!!



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mike of the mountain wrote:

no , it was not about freedom of the press , which by the by is a place you should not go regarding the state approved al jazeera
If a media outlet is not protected by freedom of the press because it's "state approved," does that mean I get to bomb FOX News because I disagree with their message? If that's the case then Bill O'Reilly better watch out!

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mike of the mountain wrote:

....al jazeera was at the very least not warning coalition members of pending ambushes and homacide bombings same thing our government agencies do to our own people. do you really expect them to help us? the coaltion of the u.s., poland and australia? get real. news outlets all over the world say far worse things about us and are hyper-critical of this administration, especially our buddies in great britain! why haven't we bombed all the european news agencies that, last november, asked how 52% of americans could be soooo stupid? does this justify the terrorists bombing cnn because they're not reporting u.s. troop locations to the rest of the world (at last)?


U.S. forces are relentlessly destroying Zarqawi's senior leadership. right, they kill the #2 guy every couple of weeks it seems. the news is constantly reporting that "we got the #2 guy in the evil terrorist machine."  do we keep getting the replacement guy, or is he a vampire or what?



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mike of the mountain wrote: no , it was not about freedom of the press , which by the by is a place you should not go regarding the state approved al jazeera If a media outlet is not protected by freedom of the press because it's "state approved," does that mean I get to bomb FOX News because I disagree with their message? If that's the case then Bill O'Reilly better watch out!

     al-jazeera is under the control of their islamic handlers , al-jazeera reports what the handlers  allow it to as they allow it to , i would not say that that is freedom of the press . the USA military has no control of what al-jazeera reports .


but American military does control the distribution of "press passes".


        the bad guys have been telling al-jazeera where and when the next mass murder of innocents will take place so that camera crews and reporters from al-jazeera can record the event in blind screaming technicolor .    by withholding that information , iraqi civilians are being murdered ,       so al-jazeera shares the blame along with the murderers for the death of innocents .


         the American military does not alert any media as to where and when hunter killer teams will strike .unlike al qaeda ,    American hunter killer teams do not intentionaly kill civilians  ,   they seem to be good at killing al qaeda officers .      and al qaeda personel that liason  with al-jazeera .      



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mike of the mountain wrote:

al-jazeera is under the control of their islamic handlers , al-jazeera reports what the handlers  allow it to as they allow it to , i would not say that that is freedom of the press .
How is this any different from our major news outlets being controlled and manipulated by it's corporate owners? If the CEO's of GE, Time-Warner or Viacom want you to hear a certain aspect of a story, that's all you'll hear. Period. They are just as controlling, if not more, than the islamic state in the middle east.

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Mindcrime wrote:

mike of the mountain wrote: al-jazeera is under the control of their islamic handlers , al-jazeera reports what the handlers  allow it to as they allow it to , i would not say that that is freedom of the press . How is this any different from our major news outlets being controlled and manipulated by it's corporate owners? If the CEO's of GE, Time-Warner or Viacom want you to hear a certain aspect of a story, that's all you'll hear. Period. They are just as controlling, if not more, than the islamic state in the middle east.


well i dont think that is true , but i would be eager to read evidence to support your theory .  



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