Pictures: Tony Blair, the Hero, in Kosovo (thanks to DayLife for photos)

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10th July 2010

UPDATE: Just found this BBC video of the crowds welcoming our, sorry, their “Superhero” in Kosovo.

BREAKING: David Miliband blasts Gordon Brown. Getting serious now, eh David? Will write on this when time permits. After I take two littlies  to the swimming pool tomorrow, (if I can enlist another adult), and we’ll pretend the third is already 8. Milipede (as I understand TB used to call him) is not wrong on everything.

TONY – YOU’RE OUR HERO

[My thanks for all the pictures below go to DayLife]

Above: Britain’s former Prime Minister Tony Blair during an interview with Reuters in Pristina July 9, 2010. Blair said that Kosovo independence will stay despite Serbia’s claims and that Kosovo and Serbia should cooperate and join the European Union. (REUTERS/Hazir Reka)

Above: Tony Blair walks away after reviewing a Kosovo’s Security Force honour guard, during an official welcoming ceremony in Kosovo capital Pristina on Thursday, July 8, 2010. This is the second visit of Tony Blair to Kosovo since the end of the war in 1999. (AP Photo/Visar Kryeziu)

Tony Blair (R) walks with Kosovo‘s Prime Minister Hashim Thaci during an official welcoming ceremony in Pristina July 8, 2010.

SO WHAT’S ALL THIS ABOUT?

Tony Blair – a hero?

Has the world gone mad? Nope. As usual, it’s (some) in Britain driving down the motorway in the wrong direction as regards our former Prime Minister.

Tony Blair meets Tonibler & eight boys named after him has been the eye-catching story today, as mentioned in previous posts here and here and here. And by John Rentoul and tweeted by David Aaronovitch classily.

And Julie here has some fun sticking it down the gullett of the haters of this world – Eat your hearts out. Good for you, Julie. Might as well give the sickmakers something to really make them puke.

TONY BLAIR -TONIBLER? WHAT’S IN A NAME?

I’m not sure if there are many Billiclintoons in Kosovo, but if there are, no-one’s told me. The reason? It was OUR Prime Minster Tony Blair, who dragged Clinton and the USA kicking and screaming into ground intervention to stop Milosevic’s ethnic cleansing of Muslims. It was OUR Tony Blair who saw that air power alone wasn’t working and was never likely to work.

It was OUR prime minister and our country leading this struggle for freedom for Albanian Muslims. We should be proud.

Mr Blair was in Kosovo principally to collect a Freedom Medal from the Kosovan government.

More on the Medal and Blair’s speech in a later post or two. [Pardon? You didn't think I was ready to finish yet, did you?]

Tony Blair waves with nine Kosovo Albanian boys named after him on stage in Pristina July 9, 2010. The boys were named after Blair as a sign of appreciation for his role in stopping a wave of ethnic cleansing by Serbia, according to the boys’ parents. Kosovo seceded from Serbia in 2008. (REUTERS/Hazir Reka )

Kosovo Albanians wave Kosovo’s and Britain’s flags during a visit by Britain’s former prime minister Tony Blair in Pristina July 9, 2010. Blair is on a two-day visit to Kosovo. (REUTERS/Hazir Reka)

Grateful Kosovans reach out to Tony Blair in Pristina July 9, 2010. (REUTERS/Hazir Reka)

More hands-on for Tony Blair (REUTERS/Hazir Reka)

Tony Blair speaks during an interview with Reuters in Pristina July 9, 2010. Blair said that Kosovo independence will stay despite Serbia's claims and that Kosovo and Serbia should cooperate and join the European Union. (REUTERS/Hazir Reka)

Tony Blair waves as he greets Kosovo Albanians in Pristina. (REUTERS/Hazir Reka)

Above: Britain’s former prime minister Tony Blair (R) speaks in front of nine Kosovo Albanian boys named after him on stage in Pristina July 9, 2010. The boys are about the same age as his own youngest son. They were named after Blair as a sign of appreciation for his role in stopping a wave of ethnic cleansing by Serbia, according to the boys’ parents. Kosovo seceded from Serbia in 2008. (REUTERS/Hazir Reka)

Britain's former PM Blair waves while flanked by his wife Cherie and nine Kosovo Albanian boys named after him on stage in Pristina

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More pictures here at DayLife
See website of the British Embassy, Pristina, for more on this visit

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