Bush targets Al-Jazeera for bombing

The man is certifiably batshit insane.

> 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’s HQ is in the business district of Qatar’s capital, Doha. > > Its single-storey buildings would have made an easy target for bombers. As it is sited away from residential areas, and more than 10 miles from the US’s desert base in Qatar, there would have been no danger of “collateral damage”. > > Dozens of al-Jazeera staff at the HQ are not, as many believe, Islamic fanatics. Instead, most are respected and highly trained technicians and journalists. > > To have wiped them out would have been equivalent to bombing the BBC in London and the most spectacular foreign policy disaster since the Iraq War itself. > > The No 10 memo now raises fresh doubts over US claims that previous attacks against al-Jazeera staff were military errors.