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Matek
Let me sum up for you what Blair stated, "I accept
responsibility for what ever happened, I am not responsible for anything that
happened"
Do you have any reason why we should not give Mr
Smart Pants the knight-hood?
Em
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Mulindwas Communication Group
"With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in
anarchy"
Groupe de communication Mulindwas
"avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans
l'anarchie"
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2003 11:14
PM
Subject: [Ugandacom] Londoners turn out
to "see Blair squirm" 12:21, Aug 28 2003
Londoners turn out to "see Blair squirm" 12:21, Aug 28
2003
By Peter Graff
LONDON (Reuters) - The
hottest ticket in London is a yellow scrap of paper letting the bearer into
court to see Prime Minister Tony Blair fight for his political
life.
Scores of people camped overnight on the street hoping to win one
of only a handful of courtroom passes to see history being made in the Royal
Courts of Justice on Thursday.
"We're all here to see Blair squirm,"
said pensioner Janet Sproule, who arrived by bicycle at dawn in an oilskin
coat and was rewarded with ticket number 57.
"Hopefully Blair will tell
us how he lied about getting us into the war," she added. "But it won't
happen. He's too slick."
When Blair took the stand mid-morning, he
became only the second sitting prime minister to be hauled before an
independent judicial inquiry.
Senior judge Lord Hutton is inquiring
into the death of government scientist David Kelly, who killed himself after
he was named as the source for a news story that said Blair's government hyped
intelligence to justify war on Iraq.
The hearings have not been
broadcast, and the public have had to make do watching actors on television
perform reconstructions by reading out the transcript.
Just ahead of
Sproule, 21-year-old history student David Vaiani said he had stayed up all
night after arriving at the courthouse at 3 a.m.
His jacket and tie
were wrinkled, he needed a shave and was "stiff, more than anything" from
squatting all night on the pavement. But it was worth it.
"It's an
historic day in this country's history," he said, clutching an umbrella --
"just in case" -- and a copy of the Daily Telegraph.
Only the first ten
members of the public won seats in the court, but about 70 others were allowed
to watch the hearings on closed-circuit TV in a separate room. Scores more
were locked out, but waited anyway, just in case.
Outside court the
show belonged to demonstrators.
Hundreds of anti-war protesters chanted
"Tony Blair -- war criminal!" and brandished placards ridiculing the prime
minister as a "most wanted" fugitive from the Wild West.
Some banners
morphed Blair's name into "B.Liar" as mud from the Iraq furore threatened to
stick to a man elected six years ago as an antidote to the sleaze that helped
topple his Conservative predecessor.
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