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Move to impeach Blair gets a boost

By Hasan Suroor

LONDON, OCT. 8. The move by British MPs to impeach Prime Minister, Tony Blair, over the Iraq war got a boost after the Iraq Survey Group's final verdict that Saddam Hussein had no weapons of mass destruction as claimed by Britain and the U.S. to justify their invasion of Iraq.

The MPs, spearheading the impeachment campaign, said the ISG's report confirmed that Mr. Blair `misled' Parliament and `lied' to the country over the reasons for attacking Iraq. The move led by Adam Price, a Welsh Nationalist Party MP, is said to be quietly backed by several anti-war Labour MPs though their names have not been disclosed.

The publication of ISG's group prompted fresh calls for Mr. Blair to resign for leading the country to war on a false pretext. "I think there is a deep neurosis in the (Labour) Party about Iraq and this report will increase it. There is only one way to remove that problem, and that is to remove the Prime Minister,'' said the anti-war Labour MP, Robert Marshall-Andrews.

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