[ sep 2004 ]
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"When Tony Blair was asked for his comments on Greg Dyke's resignation as director general of the BBC in the wake of the Hutton Report, he replied: "I hope this now enables us to draw a line under this affair and move on."" . . . And as the controversy over what really happened in the run-up to the Iraq war continues to rage, the Prime Minister's hopes of 'drawing a line' and moving on now look more forlorn than ever. Lord Hutton having failed to put the issue to bed, Mr Blair tried again this week by announcing the Butler Inquiry into whether the intelligence received about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction was accurate. "
icNewcastle
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12 year old ali abbas lost 15 relatives, including his parents and three siblings, and both of his arms, in a US bombing raid on iraq in 2003
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the UK media / British public "new arms" concept :
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"ALI GETS HIS ARMS WORLD EXCLUSIVE - ALI'S JOY AT NEW ARMS"
Daily Mirror
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"How do Ali's new arms work? "
Guardian
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"New arms for orphan Ali "
BBC
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ali abbas was fitted with prosthetic arms in october 2003
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