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By Hasan Suroor
LONDON, SEPT. 29. The British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, has questioned the U.N. Secretary-General, Kofi Annan's remarks that the Iraq war was `illegal' because it was not specifically authorised by the world body. In an interview with the BBC on Wednesday, Mr. Blair dismissed Mr. Annan's statement as "his view ... not our view" and insisted that the invasion of Iraq was `legally' justified. "The view we took at the time and we take it now is that the war was justified legally because he (Saddam Hussein) remained in breach of U.N. resolutions," Mr. Blair told the BBC's Radio 4, a day after he grudgingly acknowledged that his Government's intelligence claims about Mr. Hussein's supposed weapons of mass destruction were `wrong.'
`Cannot apologise'
Mr. Blair refused to apologise for the war, saying the decision to remove Mr. Hussein was right even if the intelligence had turned out to be wrong. Mr. Blair's remarks came as a fresh controversy erupted over his claims in the run-up to the Iraq invasion.
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