Doha: Employees of the Arabic news network al-Jazeera have been protesting over a recent report by a British tabloid, the Daily Mirror that the US President George W Bush allegedly planned to bomb the network's headquarters in Qatar.
Journalists and dozens of other staff staged protests in Doha over the report on Friday.
More than 100 journalists and employees have signed a petition calling on its board of governors to launch an official inquiry into the report.
They also called for the opening of an inquiry into the bombing of al-Jazeera's offices in Kabul and Baghdad.
The Daily Mirror reported on a memo which summarised a conversation between Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair in which the US President was quoted saying that he wanted to bomb al-Jazeera.
However, al-Jazeera?s director, Wadhah Khanfar, who is in London, said that he is trying to meet Tony Blair to discuss the issue.
"We have requested an urgent meeting with the British Prime Minister and editors of newspapers and other media in London," said Khanfar.
The Daily Mirror reported that Blair talked Bush out of launching the airstrike against al-Jazeera during a meeting at the White House.
The White House called the report 'outlandish,' but al-Jazeera called on the British government to either confirm or deny the report.
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