Bombing the Messenger?

From the Associated Press:

LONDON—A civil servant has been charged under Britain's Official Secrets Act for allegedly leaking a government memo that a newspaper said Tuesday suggested that Prime Minister Tony Blair persuaded President Bush not to bomb the Arab satellite station Al-Jazeera.

The Daily Mirror reported that Bush spoke of targeting Al-Jazeera's headquarters in Doha, Qatar, when he met Blair at the White House on April 16, 2004.

Link via Sploid. Daily Mirror heavy-breather here; the White House is "not going to dignify something so outlandish with a response," and I really can't recommend highly enough the BBC-produced journo-politico-murdero miniseries State of Play.

In October 2001, Michael Young wrote that "The Bush administration's efforts to censor [Al-Jazeera] are dumb."