Blair Pleads with Bush Not to Kill the Firebrand Muslin Cleric Who has Plunged Iraq Into Flames
Mail on Sunday › April 12, 2004
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TONY BLAIR is insisting that the Americans should not try to capture or kill the extremist Iraqi cleric behind the horrific new upsurge in violence.
But his warning that 'taking out' fanatical Shiite preacher Moqtada al-Sadr would only inflame passions among his followers has been ignored by Washington.See the full content of this document
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Blair Pleads with Bush Not to Kill the Firebrand Muslin Cleric Who has Plunged Iraq Into Flames
And just days before he meets President Bush for an emergency summit at the White House, the row threatens to shatter the bond forged between them over the invasion of Iraq.
The two allies have clashed repeatedly over how to respond to the latest violence which has left dozens of coalition troops and hundreds of Iraqis dead. It is understood that in defiance of British advice American t...See the full content of this document
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