Every time British Prime Minister Tony Blair seems to have tamped down the politically damaging fallout from his involvement in the Iraq war, something happens to revive the unpleasant issue. His attorney general stirred an outcry last week when he announced that the government would drop charges against a former intelligence analyst who exposed U.S. and British plans to spy on U.N. Security Council members potentially hostile to a war. Then Clare Short, a former member of Blair's Cabinet who last year resigned to protest her boss's stance on Iraq, accused British intelligence services of spying on U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan...
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