Tony Blair war

Tony Blair war

Protesters threw eggs and shoes at Tony Blair

at Dublin Library

Opposition Irish nationalist group faces the locking ring who kept the bookstore in which Tony Blair signed copies of his memoirs.

The protest came as former British official signed copies of his memoirs.

The "homemade rockets" did not reach the former Labour leader to get to the library Eason, street O'Connell, but the Irish police (Gardai) had to hold back protesters trying to overthrow a safety barrier mounted outside the building.

Blair to arrive at the scene, you could hear cries and phrases of the protesters as "Tony, how many children have been killed today?", "Tony Blair, war criminal" and "blood on your hands."

Although the demonstration of about 200 people no injuries, three people were detained by the authorities that the national broadcaster RTE reported.

Meanwhile, more than three hundred people lined up at the Dublin Library to receive the first signatures of the former "premier" since his book came out, published last Wednesday.

Readers were not allowed to take pictures or ask Blair to write personal messages on copies of his book "A Journey" describing what he called the "nightmare" unleashed by the invasion of Iraq.

The text has sales were "unprecedented" in its first day of publication, as the British bookstore Waterstone 's.

Waterstone "s, the largest bookstore chain in the UK, did not provide figures but called the book's success of the former prime minister between 1997 and 2007 of" great "because" we've never seen a book sell so fast in one day ".

Blair has revealed in his memoirs the scope of his poor relationship with his successor, Gordon Brown, who has called man "infuriating" and "zero emotional intelligence."

Security during the book signing of Blair has been high due to opposition from the Irish nationalist group that rejects the British rule over Northern Ireland and to criticism by the former British leader's decision to send troops to the war in Iraq.

In this respect, Blair said on "Late Late Show" on RTE radio that he regretted his decision on Iraq, adding that the military option should also not ruled out to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons.

"I still believe that what we have today in regards to fundamentalism and extremism is based on a perversion of Islam as a religion, but is still there and we have to deal with that," he said.

Blair, who converted to Catholicism after leaving Downing Street and whose maternal grandparents were farmers Protestants of Ireland, played a central role in the signing of a peace agreement in Northern Ireland in 1998.

In the 718 pages contained in the book, without major new policy on the most important events of his ten years in government, as the peace process in Northern Ireland, the death of Diana of Wales (1997), attacks September 11, 2001 in the U.S.. UU. and the controversy over the invasion of Iraq.

But the juiciest to come out of this book is its well-known bad relationship with Brown, who was his finance minister and was succeeded as head of government in June 2007.


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