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Al Jazeera Bush Bombing Memo: Official Secrets Act Trial of Two British Bureaucrats Resumed Today

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Sorry for being AWOL folks. I've been lining up some interesting stuff to share with you shortly.

But the trial of two British bureaucrats, David Keogh and Leo O'Connor -- charged with leaking the contents of a secret document to the media -- has resumed today.

It is alleged that there are ten lines in a five page memo capturing a discussion between British Prime Minister Tony Blair and President George W. Bush in which Blair is attempting to dissuade Bush from his interest in bombing Al Jazeera's Doha, Qatar headquarters.

I will have more on this later, but a good source of someone watching this matter closely is BlairWatch.

More soon.

-- Steve Clemons

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Posted by Sir Lord Dungeoness, Jan 10 2006, 5:56PM - Link

Wasn't very sporting of the blighters to leak that memo. Not very British you know. The better thing of it, would have been for George Bush to just come out with it and spare our Tony Blair from further embarrassment. Not very sporting at all. By the way, you Yanks seem not very interested in the pickle your George Bush has put our Tony Blair into. Not very sporting. Impeachment after all. Impeachment will be simply rude and upset the Lords and Ladies quite awfully. Well, it's time for tea. TTFN, lovingly yours.