| July 23, 2007 | - A spokesman said that special international envoy Tony Blair would spend his first official trip to Israel, dubbed “Mission Impossible,” in “listening mode.”
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Reuters via Yahoo! News
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| July 1, 2007 | -
Tony Blair alighted on a mission to bring cohesion to Palestinian institutions.
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Jerusalem Post
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| May 27, 2007 | - Kosovo Albanians were planning to erect a ten-foot-tall bronze statue of Bill Clinton; Tony Blair was said to be next.
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Telegraph
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| May 10, 2007 | -
British prime minister Tony Blair announced that he will resign next month after ten years in power. Much speculation ensued about what the 54-year-old Blair would do next, and it was thought that he might establish a foundation to fight poverty in Africa. “[Blair] was the worst thing that ever happened to Africa,” said Bright Matonga, the deputy information minister of Zimbabwe. “We hope that the children of Iraq and Afghanistan he is killing everyday will haunt him for the rest of his life.”
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Daily Mail
Source 2:
The Australian
Source 3:
Guardian
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| April 2, 2007 | -
British Prime Minister Tony Blair said that he was disgusted with Iran's treatment of 15 Royal Navy hostages.
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Spiegel Online
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| November 21, 2006 | -
British Prime Minister Tony Blair announced that state-sponsored supernannies would be dispatched to deal with the United Kingdom's problem children. “Life isn't normal if you've got 12-year-olds out every night,” said Mr. Blair, “drinking and creating nuisance on the street with their parents not knowing or even caring.”
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Guardian
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| November 17, 2006 | -
Tony Blair told Al Jazeera that western intervention in Iraq had been “pretty much of a disaster.”
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Times Online
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| September 1, 2006 | -
Tony Blair was seen sporting a new tea mug. “You're a man who's in charge,” reads the mug. “Others follow your lead.”
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BBC
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| August 1, 2006 | -
English Prime Minister Tony Blair said there was an “arc of extremism” stretching across the Middle East that could be defeated, he proposed, by “an alliance of moderation.”
| Source:
BBC
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| August 1, 2006 | - In California, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger said Tony Blair should be named United Nations secretary-general when he steps down as prime minister. “It's a big job that he has right now,” Schwarzenegger said, “and I think whatever job he wants he will get, because he has such a great success rate at home and he has done such a remarkable job, I think.”
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CNN
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| July 29, 2006 | -
President George W. Bush apologized to British Prime Minister Tony Blair for improperly shipping bombs to Israel via Scotland.
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BBC
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| May 26, 2006 | -
British MP George Galloway said that an assassin would be "morally justified" in killing Prime Minister Tony Blair.
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Chron.com
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| February 3, 2006 | - Professor Philippe Sands of University College, London, said he had seen a secret memo that details a January 2003 meeting between British Prime Minister Tony Blair and U.S. President George W. Bush. According to Sands' account of the memo, Blair offered Bush full British support for an invasion of Iraq regardless of whether U.N. inspectors found evidence of weapons of mass destruction. Bush also told Blair that he was thinking of having U-2 reconnaissance planes painted with U.N. colors and then flown over Iraq in order to provoke Saddam Hussein into firing upon the planes.
| Source:
The Guardian
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| January 15, 2006 | -
Tony Blair's government was planning to lift a 40-year prohibition against spying on members of Parliament. British officials, including the Secretary of State for Defense, were opposed to the plan.
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The Independent
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| January 10, 2006 | -
Tony Blair admitted to smacking his children.
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The Guardian
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| December 23, 2005 | - British Prime Minister Tony Blair visited Iraq.
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BBC News
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| November 22, 2005 | - It was reported that President George W. Bush had, on April 16, 2004, revealed to British Prime Minister Tony Blair a plan to take “military action” against the headquarters of the Al Jazeera news network in Doha, Qatar. According to a leaked transcript, Blair talked Bush out of attacking the television station. The White House called the report “outlandish and inconceivable,” and Blair called the report a “conspiracy theory.” David Keogh, a former U.K. Cabinet Office official, was charged under the Official Secrets Act with leaking the memo, and U.K. Attorney General Lord Goldsmith warned British media that any further reporting based on the leaked memo could be subject to criminal charges. Al Jazeera demanded an inquiry.
| Source 1:
The Daily Mirror
Source 2:
The Toronto Star
Source 3:
The Guardian
Source 4:
News.Telegraph
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| July 8, 2005 | -
British MP George Galloway said that “London has reaped the involvement of Mr. Blair's involvement in Iraq.”
| Source:
Democracy Now!
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| May 6, 2005 | - and Tony Blair won another term as Prime Minister.
| Source:
Reuters
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| May 1, 2005 | - A secret British memo from July 2002, summarizing a meeting between Tony Blair and his security advisors, was made public. The memo implied that President Bush had already made up his mind to go to war in Iraq, despite his claims to the contrary, and that intelligence and facts about Iraq would be “fixed around the policy.”
| Source:
Common Dreams
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| April 5, 2005 | -
Tony Blair called a general election for May 5, 2005.
| Source:
BBC News
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| December 23, 2004 | -
Tony Blair toured the Middle East, and called for a peace summit in London. The United States and Israel both told him to cut it out.
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Scotsman.com
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| December 8, 2004 | - The Vatican disapproved of a nativity scene in Madame Tussaud's wax museum in London that depicted David and Victoria Beckham, aka Posh Spice, as Joseph and Mary, with George W. Bush, Tony Blair, and the Duke of Edinburgh standing in for the three wise men. "There is a tradition in which each generation tries to reenact the nativity," explained a spokesman for the Archbishop of Canterbury, "but oh deary me."
| Source:
BBC
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| November 11, 2004 | -
Bush also met with Tony Blair, who is threatened with impeachment at home. They discussed the Middle East.
| Source 1:
White House
Source 2:
The Independent
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| October 2, 2004 | -
Tony Blair underwent heart surgery.
| Source:
New York Times
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| July 7, 2004 | - Prime Minister Tony Blair of Britain admitted that weapons of mass destruction might never be found in Iraq but continued to maintain that "we know" Saddam had such weapons: "I do not believe there was not a threat in relation to weapons of mass destruction."
| Source:
New York Times
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| May 19, 2004 | - Prime Minister Tony Blair of Britain was pelted in the back with condoms filled with purple flour as he was speaking in front of Parliament during a question-and-answer session.
| Source:
BBC
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| May 9, 2004 | - President Bush, who authorized his staff to leak the fact that he had privately rebuked Donald Rumsfeld for failing to tell him about the torture photographs, apologized on Arab television; British Prime Minister Tony Blair also apologized, though there were questions about the authenticity of the British images.
| Source:
New York Times, Agence France-Presse
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| April 26, 2004 | - Fifty former senior British diplomats signed a letter denouncing Tony Blair for following American policies in Iraq and Israel that are "doomed to failure."
| Source:
Financial Times
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| April 21, 2004 | - Prime Minister Tony Blair of Britain announced a referendum on the proposed European constitution.
| Source:
BBC
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| February 11, 2004 | - Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said that he did not recall British Prime Minister Tony Blair's prewar claim that Iraq could deploy weapons of mass destruction within 45 minutes. "I don't remember the statement being made, to be perfectly honest." The chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, General Richard Myers, didn't remember it either.
| Source:
Sydney Morning Herald
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| February 2, 2004 | - British Prime Minister Tony Blair authorized an investigation into prewar intelligence failures.
| Source:
Financial Times
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| December 28, 2003 | - Prime Minister Tony Blair claimed in a Christmas message to the British military that the Iraq Survey Group had found "massive evidence of a huge system of clandestine laboratories"; L. Paul Bremer, the American proconsul, dismissed Blair's claim as a "red herring."
| Source:
Guardian
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| November 28, 2003 | - Prime Minister Tony Blair had a stomach ache.
| Source:
New York Times
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| September 11, 2003 | - A British parliamentary report concluded that the Blair government did not intentionally lie in its controversial dossier on Iraq's military threat; the report did criticize the government, however, and said that its false claim that Iraq was capable of launching weapons of mass destruction in 45 minutes was "unhelpful," and that the dossier should have made clear that Iraq was not, in the opinion of the intelligence services, an imminent threat to Great Britain.
| Source:
BBC
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| July 20, 2003 | - Amid calls for his resignation, Prime Minister Tony Blair was asked by a reporter whether he had "blood on his hands."
| Source:
Sunday Herald
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| July 18, 2003 | -
British prime minister Tony Blair addressed the United States Congress and predicted that history will "forgive" him even if weapons of mass destruction are never found in Iraq.
He received 19 standing ovations; after the first one he responded: "This is more than I deserve and more than I'm used to, frankly."
| Source:
Guardian
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| January 23, 2001 | -
Great Britain's
House of Commons
voted to outlaw fox hunting; one prominent fox hunter was heard to say: “I will break Blair's
law.
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| January 23, 2001 | - I will be Blair's political prisoner.” The British post office changed its name to Consignia.
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| July 25, 2000 | -
Tony Blair, the prime minister of Great Britain, wrote: “You look like you're having fun.” President Clinton apologized to the Okinawans for the sexual abuse their women and girls had suffered at the hands of American soldiers.
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| July 25, 2000 | - The Blair government was caught up in a controversy surrounding the embarrassing leakage of two high-level memos, one written by the Prime Minister himself. In his memo, Blair suggested a number of policy initiatives designed to combat the widespread perception that New Labour was out of touch. “I should be personally associated with as much of this as possible,” he wrote.
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