Don’t bomb me either
Excuse me if I go off on a tangent momentarily, but I just wanted to point people toward the new English-language blog started by staff at Al Jazeera to protest about the recent revelations that Bush may have been planning to bomb the AlJaz HQ in Qatar last year. Their blog has the somewhat cheeky title ‘Don’t Bomb Us’ and also links to their collection of photos on flickr, mainly shots of recent protests outside the Qatar HQ.
Meanwhile, back in the UK where the Bush-Blair transcript story broke in the Daily Mirror, one blog is encouraging bloggers to follow the lead of Boris Johnson and Ian Hislop (editors of The Spectator and Private Eye respectively) and promise to publish the infamous memo should it fall into their grubby paws. [FYI: the attorney general has threatened to prosecute anyone who does this under the Official Secrets Act]. The Blairwatch blog has even produced a button for bloggers to proudly display their defiance of Mr Goldsmith. As for me, I find it highly implausible that some anonymous Deep Throat type is going to come up to me as a I get the bus home tonight and press a sheaf of crumpled papers into my hand, so I doubt there’s much point in promising to publish the memo. I am looking forward to reading it though.
You can follow the unfolding story of the mysterious Al Jazeera bombing memo/transcript at its work-in-progress Wikipedia page.
