- There were calls for Downing Street to publish the transcript
of a conversation between Tony Blair and US President George Bush, amid
claims that the Prime Minister persuaded Mr Bush not to launch a military
strike on a TV station in a friendly Arab state. According to unnamed sources
quoted in the Daily Mirror, the memo - stamped Top Secret - records Mr
Bush suggesting that he might order the bombing of Al-Jazeera's studios
in Qatar. And it allegedly details how Mr Blair argued against an attack
on the station's buildings in the business district of Doha, the capital
city of Qatar, which is a key ally of the West in the Persian Gulf.
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