Anti-war protests fail to dampen Jack's date with Condi By Anton La Guardia, Diplomatic Editor and Suzanne Finney (Filed: 01/04/2006) Condoleezza Rice breezed into Blackburn yesterday, evidently relishing the prospect of a good rowdy protest against her presence. Condoleezza Rice shows off a special Rovers shirt at Ewood Park A local mosque had withdrawn an invitation because of threats by extremists to disrupt the visit, and anti-war activists had vowed to dog her every move during her two days in the north-west of England with Jack Straw, the Foreign Secretary. But for Miss Rice, the US secretary of state, this...