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.
Resources
- Joe Gandelman: The Moderate Voice: Controversy Over Bush Bomb Al Jazeera Claim.
- BBC article where White House denies there was such a plan.
- Newsweek: The Case of the Secret Memo.
- The Guardian article: The Leak That Revealed Bush's Deep Obsession with Al-Jazeera.
- Telegraph article where Blair claims that the bombing plot is a conspiracy theory.
- Al Jazeera Staffers Don't Bomb Us blog.
- Arab Press reaction to the alleged plot.
- Kuro5hin article: Did the United States Target Al-Jazeera?
- Friends of Al Jazeera web site, which runs CivicSpace (a Drupal distribution), with the CivicSpace theme.
Comments
Anonymous (not verified)
How is this related to
Mon, 2005/11/28 - 11:47How is this related to Drupal? It is not.
Khalid
Remotely
Mon, 2005/11/28 - 21:47It is remotely related.
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.