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London explosions: Blair statement
Times Online ^ | July 7, 2005 | Unknown

Posted on 07/07/2005 5:05:38 AM PDT by conservativecorner

Prime Minister Tony Blair gave this statement from the G8 summit in Gleneagles at midday, three hours after the blasts hit London

"It's reasonably clear that there have been a series of terrorist attacks in london. There are obviously casualties both people who have died, people seriously injured, and our thoughts and prayers of course are with the victims and their families.

"It’s my intention to leave the G8 within the next couple of hours and go down to London and get a report face to face with the police and the emergency services and the ministers that have been dealing with this, and then to return later this evening.

"It is the will of the leaders of the G8 however, that the meeting should continue in my absence, that we should continue to discuss the issues that we were going to discuss, and reach the conclusions, which we were going to reach.

"Each of the countries round that table have some experience of the effects of terrorism and all the leaders as they will indicate a little bit later, share our complete resolution to defeat this terrorism. It is particularly barbaric that this has happened on the day when people are meeting to try to help the problems of poverty in Africa and the long-term problems of climate change in the environment.

"Just as this is recently clear that this a terrorist attack or a series of terrorist attacks it is also reasonably clear that it is designed and aimed to coincide with the opening of the G8. There will be time to talk later about this.

"It is important, however, that those engaged in terrorism realise that our determination to defend our values and our way of life is greater than their determination to cause death and destruction to innocent people in a desire to impose extremism on the world. Whatever they do, it is our determination that they will never succeed in destroying what we hold dear in this country, and in other civilised nations throughout the world. Thank you."


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events; United Kingdom; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: london; londonattacked; statement; tonyblair
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1 posted on 07/07/2005 5:05:39 AM PDT by conservativecorner
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To: conservativecorner

Of course, this is the fault of the U.S. and President Bush. If we had only let the Muslims take over the world little by little, everything would be fine.


2 posted on 07/07/2005 5:09:02 AM PDT by Piquaboy (22 year veteran of the Army, Air Force and Navy, Pray for all our military .)
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To: conservativecorner
Blair speaking live now at G8--Bush and Chirac standing on either side of him.

"The perpetrators of this attack are intent on destroying human life ... These attacks will not weaken our resolve ... We shall prevail and they shall not."

3 posted on 07/07/2005 5:09:37 AM PDT by silent_jonny (every time a justice retires an angel gets his wings)
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To: conservativecorner

Prayer for the victims and families.

Time to deal with Syria. Russia needs to eliminate Chechnya.


4 posted on 07/07/2005 5:12:08 AM PDT by tobyhill (The war on terrorism is not for the weak!)
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To: Piquaboy
Of course, this is the fault of the U.S. and President Bush. If we had only let the Muslims take over the world little by little, everything would be fine.

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Can this please be the last time anyone posts this "Bush's fault"....it's lame and in this case in very poor taste.

5 posted on 07/07/2005 5:14:56 AM PDT by wtc911 (Rocky Sullivan died a coward.)
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To: conservativecorner

He cared enough to leave the grand G8 meeting. How nice.


6 posted on 07/07/2005 5:15:01 AM PDT by bvw
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To: conservativecorner

Look out in NYC at 8:49 this morning...


7 posted on 07/07/2005 5:15:52 AM PDT by wtc911 (Rocky Sullivan died a coward.)
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Yeah, and that's a problem why?


8 posted on 07/07/2005 5:18:03 AM PDT by Marysecretary (Thank you, Lord, for FOUR MORE YEARS!!!)
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To: conservativecorner; SJackson; yonif; Happy2BMe; Simcha7; American in Israel; Taiwan Bocks; ...

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9 posted on 07/07/2005 5:19:23 AM PDT by Salem (FREE REPUBLIC - Fighting to win within the Arena of the War of Ideas! So get in the fight!)
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I will give it maybe two days at the most before some Rats steps up and says exactly that.


10 posted on 07/07/2005 5:19:31 AM PDT by Piquaboy (22 year veteran of the Army, Air Force and Navy, Pray for all our military .)
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To: conservativecorner

BUMP


11 posted on 07/07/2005 5:20:23 AM PDT by Constitution Day ("Facts, by the way, still and always will matter.")
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To: Marysecretary

His own statement's wording -- I just summarized it. It's not a good statement. It makes G8 the equal or better of a "temporary mess" in London.


12 posted on 07/07/2005 5:21:10 AM PDT by bvw
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To: silent_jonny

Did Chirac pipe up and claim that Blair doesn't speak for everyone?


13 posted on 07/07/2005 5:23:08 AM PDT by AmishDude (Once you go black hat, you never go back.)
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To: conservativecorner
On TV last night I saw the Scottish police playing defense with their little shields as the black-hooded protestors kept marching forward throwing rocks and smashing car windows with iron bars.

I hope tonight we'll see the Scotties marching the other way, grabbing these protesters, put them in vans, take them to Loch Ness and throw each one in the middle of the lake to swim with a similar monster.

Leni

14 posted on 07/07/2005 5:24:44 AM PDT by MinuteGal
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What makes ya think Nessie wants anything to do with those people?


15 posted on 07/07/2005 5:28:29 AM PDT by RandallFlagg (Roll your own cigarettes! You'll save $$$ and smoke less!(Magnetic bumper stickers-click my name)
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To: AmishDude

Heh, no. All the G8 leaders were there and they resepectfully stood in silence as Blair spoke. Though, I suppose if Blair had invited Chirac to speak, the frog wouldn't have refused.


16 posted on 07/07/2005 5:29:18 AM PDT by silent_jonny (every time a justice retires an angel gets his wings)
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17 posted on 07/07/2005 5:33:32 AM PDT by conservativecorner
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To: conservativecorner
Fret not Londoners....

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19 posted on 07/07/2005 5:52:44 AM PDT by gitmogrunt (undecorated and proud. God Bless our troops and their Families.)
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20 posted on 07/07/2005 5:55:02 AM PDT by conservativecorner
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