Al Jazeera memo: an update
Posted by
Martin Stabe
on 6 February 2006 at 15:29
Tags: Al Jazeera, Freedom of Information
Steve Wood of the UK FOIA Blog has an update on the continuing saga of the government memo, first reported by the Mirror, documenting a 2004 meeting between Topny Blair and George W. Bush during which the US president allegedly suggested bombing Al Jazeera’s headquarters in Qatar.
Both Wood and Al Jazeera’s own lawyers have submitted FOI requests for the document, with no luck so far.
At Al Jazeera’s global media forum in Doha this week, the American television programme Democracy Now! interviewed Al Jazeera managing director Wadah Khanfar about the memo.
Khanfar told interviewer Amy Goodman: “What we are trying to do now with the British government is telling them to set the record straight. It is the only way to settle this matter.”
Tags: Al Jazeera, Freedom of Information
