{"id":739,"date":"2010-09-05T10:24:50","date_gmt":"2010-09-05T10:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp3\/?p=739"},"modified":"2010-09-05T10:24:50","modified_gmt":"2010-09-05T10:24:50","slug":"blair-pelted-with-eggs-in-dublin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunnionline.us\/english\/2010\/09\/05\/739\/","title":{"rendered":"Blair pelted with eggs in Dublin"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 5px; float: right;\" alt=\"blair-eggs-dublin\" src=\"images\/stories\/news\/blair-eggs-dublin.jpg\" width=\"235\" height=\"177\" \/>Anti-war protesters in Dublin have thrown shoes, eggs and plastic bottles at Tony Blair, the former British prime minister, as he arrived at the first public signing of his memoirs.<\/div>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">About 200 people in the Irish capital shouted that Blair had &#8220;blood on his hands&#8221; over the 2003 Iraq war when he arrived at the bookshop on Saturday amid tight security. The projectiles did not strike Blair.<br \/>His book, entitled A Journey, contains his defence of Britiain&#8217;s decision to go to invade Iraq under his leadership. It was launched earlier this week and has been an immediate top seller.<br \/>Some of the protesters scuffled with police and at least two people were arrested.<br \/>Blair spent about two hours in the store before emerging to more shouts and hurled eggs. He was quickly driven away.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Proceeds donated<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He was paid a $7m advance for the memoirs, which outline the reasons for his policies during his decade as prime minister, including the invasion of Iraq, which he writes that he does not regret.<br \/>Blair has said that he will donate the advance and all of the proceeds from the book to a UK charity for wounded troops.<br \/>Several hundred people who were not involved in the demonstrations also queued at the bookshop to receive a signed copy of the book.<br \/>Killian Kiely, 21, was among those who met Blair.<br \/>&#8220;I wanted to see him, he is one of the most important leaders of his generation, though there is a lot I would disagree with about his policies,&#8221; he said.<br \/>&#8220;I just wanted to see him in the flesh.&#8221;<br \/>Blair is planning to hold another book signing in London on Wednesday, which anti-war activists have said that they will target.<br \/>Baria Alamuddin, the editor at large of al-Hayat newspaper, said that Blair can expect protests to follow him when promoting his book.<br \/>&#8220;This shows the strong feeling still among the populations around the world when it comes to him taking part in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.&#8221;<br \/>With Bertie Ahern, his Irish counterpart at the time, Blair negotiated the 1998 Good Friday Peace agreement which ended decades of violence in Northern Ireland.<\/p>\n<p>Source: Al Jazeera and agencies<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anti-war protesters in Dublin have thrown shoes, eggs and plastic bottles at Tony Blair, the former British prime minister, as he arrived at the first public signing of his memoirs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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