| TONY BLAIR had to persuade US President George Bush not to launch a military strike on the studios of TV station Al-Jazeera.
New reports claim the two leaders debated an attack on the station which has broadcast video messages from al-Qaida head Osama bin Laden and leaders of the insurgency in Iraq, as well as clips of dead British and US soldiers. There have been calls for Downing Street to publish the transcript of their conversation. According to sources it records Mr Bush suggesting that he might order the bombing of Al-Jazeera's studios in Qatar. And the transcript allegedly details how Mr Blair argued against an attack on the station's buildings in the business district of Doha, the capital city of Qatar, which is a key ally of the West in the Persian Gulf. |
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