[Mb-civic] A Blow to Tony Blair, World President - Washington Post

[William Swiggard]

A Blow to Tony Blair, World President

By Jefferson Morley
washingtonpost.com Staff Writer
Thursday, July 7, 2005; 11:09 AM

Terror struck at Tony Blair's finest hour. As host and driving force of 
the Group of Eight summit, the British prime minister was close to 
assuming the role akin to that of a world president on Thursday morning. 
His dream of forging a global political agenda for the planet was coming 
to fruition at the moment the explosions ripped through London's subways 
and a double-decker bus.

Blair said that it was "particularly barbaric" that the attacks occurred 
on the day that world leaders were sitting down to address the problems 
of Africa and climate change. Terrorism had trumped his 
well-orchestrated plan to get leaders deeply divided about the wisdom of 
the Anglo-American war in Iraq to unite around a larger agenda.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/07/AR2005070700955.html?nav=hcmodule
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