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Melbourne Herald Sun [Australia]

07/14/06

British Prime Minister Tony Blair faces a police interrogation over what he knew about the cash-for-peerages scandal. The scandal yesterday threatened to claim its biggest victim -- his chief fundraiser and trusted confidant Lord Michael Levy. ... Levy, who was not charged, was arrested and interrogated over allegations that the cash-strapped Labour Party traded peerages and other honours in exchange for donations. The scandal not only threatens the Government but, some say, leads all the way to the Prime Minister...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

British Prime Minister Tony Blair's top fundraiser, Lord Levy, was arrested Wednesday in an investigation into whether Labour party leaders improperly nominated financial backers for seats in the House of Lords, Levy's spokesman said.

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President Hamid Karzai ordered an investigation Thursday into reported civilian casualties from a U.S.-led coalition airstrike in a southern town this week, a senior official said.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060713/ap_on_re_as/afghan_attack_inquiry


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Details of the still-undisclosed memo began to leak out, first in a Daily Mirror article reporting that during the Bush-Blair conversation the president, shockingly, had suggested that allied forces should bomb the Arab television network Al Jazeera.

http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/07/12/news/britain.php


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