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By Hasan Suroor
LONDON: He may be a member of the world's most exclusive club of powerful men and women, but there is a club right in the heart of London which has reportedly told the British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, to cool his heels — and the suspicion is that it is because of his policy on Iraq. Apparently, Mr. Blair applied for the membership of the 200-year-old "Nobody's Friends'' Club which counts some of the country's most prominent figures, including the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, among its members. Mr. Blair has been on its waiting list for so long that, according to The Sunday Telegraph, he has been asked to `consider' withdrawing his name. "It is unusual to be made to wait for quite so long and then to be invited to withdraw. Ours is a difficult organisation to get into, but one would have thought that the Prime Minister would have been in with a good chance,'' the newspaper quoted the club's president, Rt. Rev. John Waine, as saying. And he speculated that the reason for the club's reluctance to admit Mr. Blair could be that it had a "problem with Mr. Blair over Iraq".
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