Al jazeera reporter's widow to sue White House

The widow of an al jazeera reporter killed when the TV station's Baghdad offices were bombed by the US military in 2003 is to sue the Bush administration. Dima Tahboub, who lives in Manchester, believes the American government is responsible for causing the death of her husband, Tareq Ayyoub. Her lawyer, Hamdi Rifai, says the case rests partially on last year's Daily Mirror revelation of a memo which disclosed that President Bush told Tony Blair of his desire to bomb al jazeera's headquarters in Qatar. Rifai told the American news network Democracy Now! that it was now clear that the attack on the Baghdad offices "was not an accident". (Via icwales.icnetwork.co.uk)