Did the US plot to bomb al-Jazeera?

In an exclusive, a UK newspaper "The Mirror" published an article today 22 Nov., 2005 maintaining "President Bush planned to bomb Arab TV station al-Jazeera in friendly Qatar, a "Top Secret" No 10 memo reveals" . A White House official said: "We are not going to dignify something so outlandish with a response."

The story received coverage in the BBC English & Arabic , CNN, as well as in al-Jazeera websites.

Early in 2003, two of al-Jazeera correspondents had their credentials revoked by the NY Stock Exchange. The decision to remove the reporters was reached days after Al-Jazeera broadcast pictures of dead U.S. soldiers and prisoners of war in defiance of requests from both the U.S. and British governments, according the NY Civil Liberties Union.