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Six junior members of Prime Minister Tony Blair's government have resigned in protest Wednesday over Blair's refusal to name a date for his resignation as Labour leader.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/090606D.shtml

Tony Blair's position has been further undermined by the drafting of a private letter from a majority of the 2001 intake of Labor MPs urging him to resign.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/090506F.shtml

Die englische Regierung will möglichst früh gegen potenzielle Gefahren für die Gesellschaft vorgehen.

http://www.telepolis.de/tp/r4/artikel/23/23479/1.html

'Self-indulgent' PM urged to 'end the pantomime' as senior ministers meet to hasten his departure.

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article1325433.ece


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Tomorrow's potential troublemakers can be identified even before they are born, Tony Blair has suggested. He said teenage mums and problem families could be forced to take help to head off difficulties. - There could be sanctions for parents who refused to take advice, he said.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14786.htm

The party conference is the prime minister's last chance to do the right thing and announce his timetable for departure.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,1861708,00.html


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Evidence is thin against some of the 25 Muslims British police detained in the alleged plot to bomb U.S. aircraft, the Chicago Tribune reports.

http://tinyurl.com/qy9gn


From Information Clearing House

By James Petras

An analysis of the current state of the investigation raises a series of questions regarding the governments’ claims of a bomb plot concocted by 24 Brits of Pakistani origin.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14709.htm

A new prime minister who wants to defuse domestic extremism will need to rethink the relationship with Washington.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1857775,00.html


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