I Wanted to Make It Clear That, of Course, I Regret Deeply and Profoundly the Loss of Life ; Jeers As Blair Faces Iraq Inquiry for a Second Time

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TONY BLAIR was jeered and heckled yesterday as he said he deeply and profoundly regretted the loss of life in the Iraq War.

Making his second appearance before the Iraq Inquiry, the former prime minister struck a noticeably more conciliatory tone than at his first appearance a year ago. But his words drew a furious response from some of the relatives in the hearing room, with Rose Gentle - whose 19-year-old son Gordon was killed in Basra in 2004 - crying out: "Too late."

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I Wanted to Make It Clear That, of Course, I Regret Deeply and Profoundly the Loss of Life ; Jeers As Blair Faces Iraq Inquiry for a Second Time

Two women stood and turned their backs on Mr Blair while others in the public gallery at the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre at Westminster were openly weeping.

Moments earlier he had provoked murmurs of unrest with a stark warning that the West should end its "wretched posture of apology" towards Iran and, if necessary, use force to deal with the Tehran regime.

At his first hearing, when he was asked by inquiry chairman Sir John Chilcot if he had any regret...

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