Britain is warning media organizations that if they report on an alleged leaked document that President Bush plotted to bomb the Al Jazeera Television Station that they would be charged with breaking the law.
On Tuesday the British tabloid the Daily Mirror reported that according to a "secret British government document," Bush planned to do this but Tony Blair talked him out of it.
The British Attorney General warned the editors at the Mirror publicly. Many British papers immediately published not only the warning, but the original Mirror article as well. The latter caused a media frenzy.
The White House called the Mirror's accusations outlandish and without merit. Reporters worldwide including Al-Jazeera are standing behind President Bush on this one.
Meanwhile the Mirror is standing behind it's story, saying it came from 10 Downing Street. Allegedly it landed in the office of then-parliament member Tony Clarke of Northampton, England. Leo O'Connor who worked for Mr. Clarke and David Keogh, a civil servant evidently passed it onto the Mirror.
Charges have been filed against both O'Connor and Keogh.
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