British Prime Minister Tony Blair held talks in Sudan on Wednesday to pressure the country’s leaders into taking action over the humanitarian crisis in war-torn Darfur. Blair, who underwent an operation to correct a heart flutter only five days earlier, was greeted at the presidential palace in Khartoum by Vice President Ali Osman Taha.
Blair seeks pledge from Sudan
British Prime Minister Tony Blair was not responsible for failures of British intelligence about Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction ahead of the war to oust Saddam Hussein, an official inquiry reported on Wednesday. Iraq most likely possessed no useable weapons of mass destruction before the conflict, the inquiry concluded.