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Thread #86637   Message #1612384
Posted By: Barry Finn
23-Nov-05 - 06:27 PM
Thread Name: BS: What the faaaa...?
Subject: RE: BS: What the faaaa...?
Could this happen in the US, has it already happened (only 1 guess, here?)? Freedom of the press as long as they're printing what's been approved, if not it's C4 th 4 u.

I can see ol Ben Franklin & his brother, both news people, starting a revolt over such antics.


I would think that Tony only protested for the sake of his own neck & not for humanity as for Bush he can't think or see beyond his intimate surroundings.


Just saw this on Aljazeera's site, thought I post it hear

   
UK gags paper over Aljazeera memo

Wednesday 23 November 2005, 12:01 Makka Time, 9:01 GMT
   

Blair is said to have talked Bush out of any military strike


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Britain's Daily Mirror newspaper has been ordered to cease publishing further details from an allegedly top secret memo revealing that US President George Bush wanted to bomb Aljazeera.


The gag order from Attorney-General Lord Goldsmith came nearly 24 hours after the paper published details of what it said was a transcript of talks between Bush and the British Prime Minister Tony Blair.