Blair: No 'quick exit' in Iraq
17/05/2004 19:59  - (SA)  

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Ankara - British Prime Minister Tony Blair said on Monday that British troops would not make a "quick exit" from Iraq, after a car bomb attack in Baghdad killed the head of the Iraqi Governing Council.

"What has happened in Iraq today... underlines this fact: We are not going to have any so-called quick exit, there will be no cutting and running in Iraq," Blair told a press conference here after talks with his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

"We will continue until the job is done," he added, amid British press reports that London and Washington were drawing up plans to speed up the pull-out of coalition forces.

Blair was speaking after IGC chief Ezzedine Saleem, the head of the Iraqi governing council, was killed in a suicide car bomb blast at the entrance of the sprawling US-led coalition headquarters in Baghdad.

- AFP

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