Question

This leader ordered the successful Operation Barras, which freed five soldiers held captive by the “West Side Junglers.” Under this leader, the Hutton Inquiry investigated the circumstances surrounding the death of David Kelly, who asserted that the September Dossier had been “sexed up” to exaggerate its urgency. This British prime minister signed the “letter of eight” and had his foreign policy criticized in the Chilcot Report. The British Army was dispatched to fight the RUF under this prime minister in the (*) Sierra Leone Civil War. Brexit (10[1])threatened the open borders requirements of an agreement signed by (10[1])this prime minister with Bertie Ahern to end the Troubles signed on Good (10[1])Friday. For 10 points, Britain entered the Iraq War under (10[2])what “New (10[1])Labour”prime minister succeeded by Gordon Brown? ■END■

ANSWER: Tony Blair [or Sir Anthony Charles Lynton Blair]
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Moses KitakuleColumbia BGatherer8610
Jacob Hardin-BernhardtNYU ANYU B9610
Andrew MinagarYaleBard10910
Will HollisterLehigh BLehigh A11910
Simon EmmanuelRutgersNYU C11910
Andrew YangColumbia CColumbia A12110

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2024 Booster Shot (Columbia)02/23/2024Y6100%0%0%108.33
2024 Booster Shot (Waterloo)02/23/2024Y4100%25%0%88.25
2024 Booster Shot (Vanderbilt)03/02/2024Y450%25%0%80.50
2024 Booster Shot (Great Lakes)03/09/2024Y683%33%17%88.00
2024 Booster Shot (Great Lakes)03/09/2024Y10%0%100%0.00
2024 Booster Shot (WUSTL)03/09/2024Y3100%0%33%119.33