Blair vows to keep the heat on Iraq.Prime Minister Tony Blair Noun 1. Tony Blair - British statesman who became prime minister in 1997 (born in 1953) Anthony Charles Lynton Blair, Blair yesterday told the Commons it was Britain's duty to help bring Saddam Hussein Saddam Hussein (born April 28, 1937, Tikrit, Iraq—died Dec. 30, 2006, Baghdad) President of Iraq (1979–2003). He joined the Ba'th Party in 1957. Following participation in a failed attempt to assassinate Iraqi Pres. "back into line". The PM said the search for a diplomatic solution to the crisis would go on but warned the Iraqi leader "should not be in any doubt that if we are forced to take military action we will do so". Blair's hard-line stance came as the commander of US forces in the Gulf said they were ready to launch Operation Desert Thunder Operation Desert Thunder was a response to threats by Iraq's president Saddam Hussein to shoot down U-2 spy planes, and violate the no-fly zone set up over his country. The operation was designed to bring stability to the region by bringing in a military presence during the . Marine general Anthony Zinni claimed there were just a "few more pieces" of the military build- up to get into place US Defence Secretary William Cohen yesterday told pilots, sailors and marines on the aircraft carrier George Washington, which is patrolling the region: "You are the steel in the sword of freedom." He said the warship warship, any ship built or armed for naval combat. The forerunners of the modern warship were the men-of-war of the 18th and early 19th cent., such as the ship of the line, frigate, corvette, sloop of war (see sloop), brig, and cutter. was intended to "show our adversaries they should take great care". |
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