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    Families reject former UK PM Blair's apology over Iraq dead →

    Tony Blair

    Some bereaved relatives heckled the former prime minister as he expressed his remorse.

    Members of the audience shouted: “Too late, too late,” while two women turned their backs on Blair, and then walked out. An official brought tissues into the hearing for another woman who burst into tears.

    “Your lies killed my son, I hope you can live with yourself,” Rose Gentle, whose 19-year-old son Gordon Gentle was killed while serving in Basra, southern Iraq, in 2006, shouted as Blair completed about four hours of testimony.

    “You’re a disgrace to your office and our country,” Reg Keys, whose son was killed in 2003, shouted as Blair left.

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    — 1 year ago

    #Iraq War  #Tony Blair  #UK  #United Kingdom  #news