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Originally posted by RACooper
Which options? Deciding how to deal with what is becoming a damaging story by more or less confirming it by making the legal announcement... best case the story proves to be only partially true - or slanted somehow... worst case it is true and serious questions arise regarding UK support of US policy - afterall it's hard to justify having to talk an ally out of a war crime (I don't know how bombing journalists in a neutral allied country could be justified under any international law).
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Al Jazeera is an interesting group -- have you read their website? Attacking it would be legally equivelant to attacking the propaganda machine of the enemy. The only difference here is that we're not fighting another nation, we're fighting a loosely defined network. Go read their website and their "stories", one of which recently accused the US of blowing up the WTC just for an excuse to invade Iraq.
I'm not ready to support bombing Al-Jazeera, but I can definitely see why such an option should be on the table.