Bush a envisagé de bombarder Al-Jazira
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 is accused by the US of fuelling the Iraqi insurgency. The attack would have led to a massacre of innocents on the territory of a key ally, enraged the Middle East and almost certainly have sparked bloody retaliation. A source said last night: "The memo is explosive and hugely damaging to Bush. "He made clear he wanted to bomb al-Jazeera in Qatar and elsewhere. Blair replied that would cause a big problem.
A Government official suggested that the Bush threat had been "humorous, not serious". But another source declared: "Bush was deadly serious, as was Blair. That much is absolutely clear from the language used by both men."
Source Mirror 22/11/04Le président américain, George W. Bush, a envisagé en 2004 de bombarder la télévision satellitaire qatarie Al-Jazira, écrit, mardi 22 novembre, le quotidien britannique Daily Mirror, citant un mémorandum "ultra secret" du 10 Downing Street, la résidence du premier ministre britannique, Tony Blair.
Selon des sources anonymes [...], une transcription de cinq pages d'une conversation entre MM. Bush et Blair révèle que le premier ministre britannique a évoqué avec le président américain l'éventualité d'une frappe militaire sur la station basée au Qatar.
Source LE MONDE 22/11/05
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