Tony Blair

...the hearings tomorrow and Mr Blair faces a grilling in the new year. As PM he denied throughout most of 2002 that he was preparing to invade Iraq and topple Saddam Hussein. The leaked documents show planning was secretly under way but only a...

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...destruction, which turned out to be non-existent. One key question was whether Tony Blair really believed in them or whether he simply supported George Bush's desire to get rid of Saddam. The panel will want to know what assurances Blair...

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...attacks on New York and the Pentagon later that year he said "everything changed". And the following day Mr Blair mentioned ousting Saddam for the first time. Sir Christopher added: "What he was trying to do was to draw the lessons of 9/11...

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Blair knew 10 days in advance before Iraq war that Saddam did not have WMD London, Nov 26 : Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair s government knew ten days in advance before declaring war on Iraq that Saddam Hussein did not have access to...

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..."remained limited", they heard. Yet Blair that month described Saddam's banned weapons programme as "active, detailed and growing" and said the picture emerging was "detailed and authoritative". In the government's dossier on Iraqi...

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...premier for the war. Blair, who has vowed to cooperate "fully" with the probe, faced intense public hostility after backing then US president George W Bush in the 2003 invasion to topple Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. His resulting...

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...to London between 2001 and 2003. These included a briefing message for Mr Blair before he met President Bush at Crawford Ranch in 2002 when the men are suspected of having agreed to overthrow Saddam Hussein. Another missing message was sent...

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Inquiry told that Blair combined threats from Saddam and al Qaida ex-British ambassador to Washington tells Iraq war probe former PM linked dangers By Gavin Cordon and Joe Churcher Tony Blair deliberately conflated the threats from...

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...a professor of theology who spilt the beans. Blair told his Iraq experts that Saddam was "uniquely evil"; the inquiry should ask him whether Bush mentioned Gog and Magog to him, or he to Bush. The Prime Minister's choice of the members of...

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