Blair challenged by British hostage saga
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TONY JONES: The ongoing saga of a British hostage held in Iraq is proving to be a real political challenge for Tony Blair. The family of Ken Bigley has attacked the Prime Minister for doing nothing, while Mr Bigley faces death.
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Britain's ruling Labour Party struggled to shift the pre-election focus to domestic politics, as Prime Minister Tony Blair faced renewed pressure over the fate of a British hostage in Iraq.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair warned against &quot;raising false hopes&quot; for an engineer held hostage in Iraq.
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British hostage Kenneth Bigley has been shown on video pleading for Tony Blair&#39;s help, a sobering reminder of the grim reality for at least 18 foreign captives still held by Iraqi militants.
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British-Iraqi aid worker Margaret Hassan&#39;s captors have released a tape of her pleading for Tony Blair to save her life, repeating a tactic used with political effect in the case of slain hostage Kenneth Bigley.
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Tony Blair reignited the row over Guantanamo Bay last night by claiming that former British detainees had been "causing difficulties again" after their release.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Authorities insisted they won't give in to militants' demands to free female Iraqi prisoners despite the broadcast of a videotape that showed a tearful British hostage begging Britain to save his life.    The captive, Kenneth Bigley, appealed to British Prime Minister Tony Blair to intervene...
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LONDON - British Prime Minister Tony Blair has come under fire over the way his government is handling a US request to redeploy 650 British troops in Iraq.
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Unable to calm the controversy over a US request to redeploy British troops in Iraq, Prime Minister Tony Blair is facing dissent from within his party ranks.
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A chained British hostage in Iraq begged Tony Blair for help on Wednesday, cranking up the emotional pressure on the prime minister as Italians celebrated the release of two women aid workers after paying a ransom.
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British premier Tony Blair faces a  harder fight than ever to save his legacy in the wake of savage  postmortems after he scrapped an arms deal bribery probe and  was questioned by police investigating political funding.
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Desperate but unanswered pleas to release a British hostage threatened with death in Iraq have taken their toll on his family and put pressure on UK Prime Minister Tony Blair.
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The brother of Kenneth Bigley, a British engineer held hostage in Iraq for 12 days, slammed Prime Minister Tony Blair as a weak politician who did not have sufficient credibility to negotiate properly.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair said he&#39;s doing what he can to help a hostage being held in Iraq. Militants released another videotape of Kenneth Bigley today, in which he&#39;s shown sobbing in a makeshift cage.
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British hostage in Iraq Kenneth Bigley made a fresh plea Wednesday to British Prime Minister Tony Blair to work on securing his release.
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BAGHDAD, Sept. 23 -- A British hostage threatened with death by a militant Islamic group appealed to  Prime Minister Tony Blair on Wednesday to save his life by ordering the release of all women held in Iraqi prisons.
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LONDON - Tony Blair is under increasing pressure to apologize for misrepresenting intelligence about Saddam Hussein&#39;s weapons, but the British prime minister continued to hold his ground against attacks from his political opposition.