Blair on surprise Baghdad visit
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UK Prime Minister Tony Blair says Iraq is seeing a battle between democracy and terror, as he visits Baghdad.
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The American Defence Secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, has made a surprise visit to Iraq to assess rising violence and increased security breaches.
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British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw  made a surprise visit to Iraq on Tuesday, with violence and  kidnapping overshadowing plans for elections in January.
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EVEN by his own audacious globetrotting standards, it was some entrance by Tony Blair as his fleet of helicopters whisked him low over the suburban slums of Baghdad.
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BASRA, Iraq  - Protected by U.S. Black Hawk  helicopters, Britain's Tony Blair flew into Iraq on Tuesday in  a surprise show of political bravado designed to boost  prospects for Iraqi elections and cheer UK troops before  Christmas.
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Britain agreed on Thursday to send troops to dangerous areas near Baghdad, a politically perilous step for Prime Minister Tony Blair who could face a sharp backlash if casualty rates start rising.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair will  on Wednesday announce a timetable for the withdrawal of British  troops from Iraq just as thousands of additional U.S. troops  are arriving there to try to restore order in Baghdad.
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A reconnaissance team is to visit the area around Baghdad where UK forces could be sent to provide US back-up.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair will travel to Copenhagen next week for talks with his Danish counterpart Anders Fogh Rasmussen on the situation in Iraq.
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Il premier britannico Tony Blair Ã¨ a Baghdad per incontrare il primo ministro a interim iracheno Iyad Allawi. Nella sua imprevista visita lampo il premier britannico ha voluto manifestare il suo appoggio
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Children collect usable metal parts from the site of a car bomb explosion in Baghdad, Iraq, October 4. AP. BAGHDAD  - Britain&#39;s Foreign Secretary Jack Straw paid a surprise visit to Iraq on Tuesday amid
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice made a surprise visit to Baghdad on Tuesday for talks with Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki that were expected to involve a push for more progress on political reconciliation.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair arrived in Baghdad on Sunday to lend support to the Iraqi government, which is under pressure from Washington to do more to stem worsening sectarian violence.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair made  a surprise first visit to Baghdad on Tuesday to meet Iraqi  Prime Minister Iyad Allawi and show support for Iraq's  elections scheduled for January.
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Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett arrives in Iraq for a surprise visit as controversy goes on over UK deployments.
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December 22, 2004 -- BASRA, Iraq - Britain&#39;s Tony Blair flew into Iraq yesterday in a surprise show of political bravado designed to boost prospects for Iraqi elections and raise morale for British troops before Christmas.
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Tony Blair yesterday became the first serving British prime minister to visit Baghdad since Stanley Baldwin in 1924, but his predecessor&#39;s arrival can scarcely have been as dramatic.