Widow of Al Jazeera Correspondent Tareq Ayoub Filing Lawsuit Against Bush

The widow of Al Jazeera correspondent Tareq Ayyoub is bringing a lawsuit against the Bush administration for her husband's death. On April 8 2003, Ayyoub was reporting from Al Jazeera"s offices in Baghdad when he was killed by a US missile. He was the first journalist to be killed in Iraq just hours before U.S. forces seized the capital.

Yesterday, the attorney for Dima Tahboub, the widow of Tareq Ayyoub, held a press conference in Washington D.C announcing the lawsuit. The attorney, Hamdi Rifai, said the case is being launched in part because of the disclosure last year in London's Daily Mirror that President Bush told British Prime Minister Tony Blair of his desire to bomb Al Jazeera's headquarters in Qatar. The Mirror cited a secret memo leaked from the British government.

* Dima Tahboub, widow of killed al Jazeera reporter Tareq Ayuob. She joins us on the line from Manchester, England.
* Hamdi Rifai, attorney for Dima Tahboub.

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