Blair Visits Baghdad Before Heading to Israel
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British prime minister Tony Blair held talks Tuesday with Iraq's interim prime minister Ayad Allawi, during a surprise visit to Iraq that comes ahead of national elections and amid a fierce insurgency.
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UK Prime Minister Tony Blair, making a surprise visit to Iraq today, met with British troops near Basra after talks with Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi in Baghdad.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair has arrived in the war-torn Iraqi capital Baghdad for talks with his counterpart Nuri al-Maliki and President Jalal Talabani.
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BAGHDAD, Dec. 17 -- British Prime Minister Tony Blair arrived in Baghdad Sunday on an unannounced visit and said his country's troops will remain in Iraq "until the job is done."
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair made  a surprise first visit to Baghdad Tuesday amidst intense  security and hailed officials orchestrating Iraq's January  elections as heroes.
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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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UK Prime Minister Tony Blair made a surprise trip today to Baghdad for talks with Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi. Blair&#39;s trip to Baghdad wasn&#39;t announced in advance for security reasons.
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Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair arrived in Israel on Monday for his first trip as the international community's Mideast envoy.
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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.
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Tony Blair arrived Monday in Israel on the second leg of his maiden voyage to the Middle East as special envoy for the peace Quartet, an AFP photographer said.
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Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair on Monday kicked off his first visit to the Middle East as the international community's new envoy to the region, hoping to add new momentum to fledgling peace efforts between Israel and the Palestinians.
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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 violence.
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Convinced that the road to Jerusalem doesn't run through Baghdad, British Prime Minister Tony Blair is trying to turn President Bush's attention from Iraq to the stalled Mideast peace process.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair made  a surprise first visit to Baghdad Tuesday to meet Iraqi Prime  Minister Iyad Allawi and show support for elections scheduled  for January.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair flew in to oil-rich Libya on Tuesday on the start of a three-nation African tour less than a month before he leaves office.
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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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British PM meets Israeli counterpart ahead of his landmark talks with PLO chief in Ramallah. By Peter Walker - JERUSALEM. British Prime Minister Tony Blair met his Israeli counterpart Ariel Sharon Wednesday