Did the United States Plot to Bomb Al Jazeera?

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Did the United States Plot to Bomb Al Jazeera?

It is a known fact that US missiles made their way to Al Jazeera offices in Kabul, Afghanistan in 2001, and Baghdad in 2003.

What is making the news these days is an alleged leaked memo that Bush wanted to bomb Al Jazeera offices, but Blair disagreed. The source is The Daily Mirror, which is mostly a tabloid.

The White House denies that there was ever such a plan, and the ever so eloquant Blair said it is a conspiracy theory. 

Al Jazeera officals have requested a meeting with Blair to discuss the issue. Staffers at Al  Jazeera have started a "Don't Bomb Us" blog!

As I write this, the Arabic web site of Al Jazeera is working fine, while the English site gives this  error:

Status : 504 Gateway Time-Out

Description : Unable to connect to origin web server. The web site you are attempting to access is currently unreachable. This may be due to a network outage, or the web site might be experiencing technical difficulties.

Al Jazeera  has been under Denial of Service attacks at the most "critical" of times. 

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The Friends of Al Jazeera web site runs CivicSpace. I did not know about that site before, and stumbled on it when doing a Google News search on the Al Jazeera bombing story.
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Khalid Baheyeldin

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