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07-18-2012, 04:18 AM
How the Iraq war nearly ended London's Olympic dream - The Age

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While London's mayor Ken Livingstone had already signed on, the war in Iraq was at the point of steering a London bid fatally off course. "You remember this was the major political issue of the time," Reedie says. "To turn away from the political ...

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