Media warned over US bomb threat memo

BRITAIN has warned media organisations they are breaking the law if they publish details of a leaked document said to show US President George W Bush wanted to bomb Arabic television station Al-Jazeera.

The government’s top lawyer warned editors in a note after the Daily Mirror newspaper reported on Monday that a secret government memo said British Prime Minister Tony Blair had talked Mr Bush out of bombing the broadcaster in April last year.

Several British newspapers reported the attorney general’s note yesterday and repeated the Mirror’s allegations, which the White House said were “so outlandish” they did not merit a response. Mr Blair’s office declined to comment.