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emilyg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-15-08 01:24 PM
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Tony Blair Cancels Gaza Visit After Israeli Intel Uncovers Plot to Kill Him

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Tony Blair
On Tuesday, Mideast envoy Tony Blair called off what would have been the first visit of a top Western diplomat to Hamas-ruled Gaza, after Israel's Shin Bet security service received "pinpointed and imminent" intelligence that there was going to be an assassination attempt on his life.

The Shin Bet security service said it had received "information that Palestinians were planning to attack Blair in Gaza, so the relevant services alerted him to the fact."

They say the information about the attack was "detailed and credible." Militants planned to attack Blair's convey with

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,382667,00.html
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librechik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-15-08 01:28 PM
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1. scary terrorists out to get Tony? Or do they just want to make us believe that
so we will believe in the "imminent danger" of whoever?

I bet it was a phony threat and our phony intelligence services are behind it.

Good luck, Tony. Hope you really aren't in any danger! (I think you are not)
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AZ Criminal JD Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-15-08 05:18 PM
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6. Yeah an area that is full of Sirhan Sirhans is so safe.
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applegrove Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-15-08 01:28 PM
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2. Isnt' Barak Obama heading in that same directtion in a few weeks.
:scared:
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notadmblnd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-15-08 01:33 PM
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3. it must be ture, cause there certainly could be no reason
that anyone would want to keep foreign leaders from seeing the reality of life in Gaza for themselves. :sarcasm:
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cascadiance Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-15-08 01:37 PM
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4. Are they trying to go after Yunis Abbas again?


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Arctic Dave Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-15-08 01:59 PM
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5. With the amount of blood on TB's hands
I really don't care if someone offs him. The world would most likely be a better place without him and people like him.
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