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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Caroline Davies

Margaret Thatcher praised Tony Blair for supporting US after 9/11, files reveal

Margaret Thatcher with Tony Blair in 2007.
Margaret Thatcher with Tony Blair in 2007. Photograph: Alistair Grant/PA

Margaret Thatcher privately praised Tony Blair over his support for the US after the 9/11 attacks, according to newly released government files.

“You will have found, as I did, that just as one international crisis subsides, another soon threatens,” she wrote in a handwritten note dated 4 April 2002, seven months after al-Qaida passenger jet hijackers carried out four suicide attacks, including on the Twin Towers in New York City.

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