Tony Blair Knew of Secret Policy on Terror Interrogations


	Tony Blair Knew of Secret Policy on Terror Interrogations

brightlight4

6-19-2009 6:36 PM

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How damn sick AND over 90% of British public opinion was against the intervention of the UK in Iraq!!!

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