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Blair Goes to Iraq
Politics | May 30, 2003, Friday // 00:00
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair meets with troops in the port of Umm Qasr, Iraq. Blair became the first western leader to visit the country since hostilities ceased six weeks ago. Photo by AFP
British Prime Minister Tony Blair made the first visit to postwar Iraq by a Western leader amid mounting questions in the United States and Britain about the alleged weapons arsenal that supported the case for war against Saddam Hussein.
Blair's visit to the southern city of Basra was also overshadowed by the shooting death of a US soldier amid growing signs of guerrilla-style resistance by supporters of the ousted Iraqi leader and his now-banned Baath party.
And it came as US President George W. Bush was to set off on a week-long tour of Europe and the Middle East that will bring him face to face with leaders such as France's Jacques Chirac and Germany's Gerhard Schroeder, who bitterly opposed the Iraq war.
Blair, the first leader of the US-led coalition to visit the country since Saddam was toppled, called the Iraq conflict one of the "defining moments of the century."
Blair's visit to the southern city of Basra was also overshadowed by the shooting death of a US soldier amid growing signs of guerrilla-style resistance by supporters of the ousted Iraqi leader and his now-banned Baath party.
And it came as US President George W. Bush was to set off on a week-long tour of Europe and the Middle East that will bring him face to face with leaders such as France's Jacques Chirac and Germany's Gerhard Schroeder, who bitterly opposed the Iraq war.
Blair, the first leader of the US-led coalition to visit the country since Saddam was toppled, called the Iraq conflict one of the "defining moments of the century."
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