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Desperate Jack Straw drags Iraqi Prime Minister into Blackburn campaign

.. | 30.04.2005 08:52 | Anti-militarism | Repression | Social Struggles | World

Foreign Secretary Jack Straw has enlisted the support of Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim Jafari in a desperate and controversial move to avoid defeat in his "safe" constituency of Blackburn, Lancashire.

According to the Newsquest agency, Jafari was shipped up to Blackburn to address a meeting of Labour loyalists on Friday.

Moazzem Begg, the British citizen recently released from Guantanamo Bay, will be visiting Blackburn on Sunday to endorse Jack Straw's antiwar Independent opponent, Craig Murray.

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