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		</div><p>The High Court has blocked a bid by a former chief of staff of the Iraqi army to bring a private prosecution against Tony Blair over the Iraq War.</p>
<p>General Abdul Wahed Shannan Al Rabbat has accused Mr Blair, while UK prime minister, of committing a &#8220;crime of aggression&#8221; by invading Iraq in 2003 to overthrow President Saddam Hussein. The general wanted to prosecute Mr Blair and two other key ministers at the time &#8211; foreign secretary Jack Straw and attorney general Lord Goldsmith.</p>
<p>His lawyers asked London&#8217;s High Court for permission to seek judicial review in an attempt to get the Supreme Court, now the highest court in the land, to overturn a ruling by the House of Lords in 2006 that there is no such crime as the crime of aggression under the law of England and Wales.</p>
<p>Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd, the Lord Chief Justice, and Mr Justice Ouseley dismissed the general&#8217;s application, saying there was &#8220;no prospect&#8221; of the case succeeding.</p>
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