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The Associated Press: Wife says Nobel Laureate Harold Pinter dies at 78
LONDON (AP) — Harold Pinter, praised as the most influential British playwright of his generation and a longtime voice of political protest, has died after a long battle with cancer. He was 78…
The Nobel Prize gave Pinter a global platform which he seized enthusiastically to denounce U.S. President George W. Bush and then-British Prime Minister Tony Blair.
“The invasion of Iraq was a bandit act, an act of blatant state terrorism, demonstrating absolute contempt for the concept of international law. How many people do you have to kill before you qualify to be described as a mass murderer and a war criminal? One hundred thousand?”
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