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Gulf-trotting Tony Blair cashes in on his war contacts
Key Excerpts from Article on Website of The Times (One of the UK's leading newspapers)


The Times (One of the UK's leading newspapers), October 18, 2009
Posted: January 10th, 2011
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article6879436.ece

Tony Blair has been cashing in on his contacts from the Iraq conflict and his role as Middle East peace envoy for a private business venture expected to earn him more than 5m a year. The former prime minister has sold his political and economic expertise to two countries, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates, via his fledgling private consultancy. He also represents the investment bank JP Morgan in the region. Blair has been ... amassing a fortune from the American lecture circuit. By offering himself to the Arab states as a statesman for hire, he could comfortably double his annual earnings. His consultancy, the London-based Tony Blair Associates (TBA), emulates the New York partnership Kissinger Associates, which was founded by Henry Kissinger, the former national security adviser to President Nixon. Peter Brierley, 59, of Batley, West Yorkshire, whose 28-year-old son Shaun was killed near the Kuwait-Iraq border in 2003 and who refused to shake Blairs hand at a memorial service this month, said: This beggars belief. Its absolutely scandalous that hes now trying to make money from his contacts in the region. Its money from the blood and lives of the soldiers who died in Iraq. His fees for talks, along with contracts with JP Morgan and Zurich Financial Services, are estimated to put his earnings excluding [a big] book deal well in excess of 5m a year.

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