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Plugging a book in the Philippines

Mark Devenport | 16:13 UK time, Monday, 19 January 2009

We just talked to Gerry Kelly on Stormont Live about his conflict resolution trip to He was accompanied by Tony Blair's former Chief of Staff Jonathan Powell. He told us the two men were driven through rebel held territory along tracks lined by armed militants from the Moro Islamic Liberation Front. When they arrived, they were greeted by a MILF leader who was leafing through a copy of Jonathan Powell's book, "Great Hatred, Little Room". It must be doing great trade in the Mindanao bookstores.

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