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Al-Jazeera staff protest

CAIRO: Staff at Al-Jazeera, the Arab world's best known satellite channel, held protests on Thursday demanding an investigation into British media reports that U.S. President George W. Bush considered bombing their network headquarters.

Al-Jazeera personnel at the headquarters in Doha, Qatar, and in the channel's foreign bureaus stopped work for 15 minutes in a symbolic protest over this week's report in the Daily Mirror that Mr. Bush spoke of bombing the station in talks with British Prime Minister Tony Blair in April 2004, the station's editor-in-chief, Ahmed el-Sheik, said.

The White House called the paper's report ``outlandish and inconceivable''. Staff also held protests in Beirut and Gaza City, holding a banner at one that read ``Bush wanted to bomb Al-Jazeera.'' — AP

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