Journalist Ron Suskind on the Deliberate U.S. Bombing of Al Jazeera, Losing Bin Laden and

Earlier this week, Dima Tahboub - the widow of Al Jazeera correspondent Tareq Ayyoub - filed 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. At a press conference in Washington D.C earlier this week, Dima's attorney said the case was 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.

In the new book, "The One Percent Doctrine," investigative journalist Ron Suskind writes that that the U.S deliberately bombed the Kabul, Afghanistan offices of Al Jazeera. He writes, "On November 13, 2001, a hectic day when Kabul fell to the Northern Alliance and there were celebrations in the streets of the city, a U.S. missile obliterated Al Jazeera's office. Inside the CIA and White House there was satisfaction that a message had been sent to Al Jazeera."

The "One Percent Doctrine" also examines how the Bush Adminstration's philosophy of separating analysis from action and embracing suspicion as a justification for the use of American power has shaped its policies.

* Ron Suskind, Pulitzer prize-winning journalist and author of "The One Percent Doctrine: Deep Inside America's Pursuit of Its Enemies Since 9/11." His previous books include "The Price of Loyalty: George W Bush, the White House and the Education of Paul O'Neill" and "A Hope Unseen."
- Website: http://www.ronsuskind.com/

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