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BLAIR'S ILLEGAL WAR
April 18, 2005 issue

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Offers a look at information released in Great Britain suggesting that Prime Minister Tony Blair's government lied to Parliament when it claimed that the war was legal under United Nations Security Council Resolution 1441. Reference to a letter of resignation written by Elizabeth Wilmshurst, a deputy legal adviser to the Foreign Office, in which she claims the invasion of Iraq is a crime of aggression; Claim that Attorney General Lord Goldsmith told Blair that the war would be illegal.

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IRAQ War, 2003- -- Moral & ethical aspects; WAR (International law); WAR -- Moral & ethical aspects; PRIME ministers -- Great Britain; BLAIR, Tony, 1953-; GREAT Britain
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