UK woman in tax protest over Iraq war

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A British woman who refused to pay her taxes in protest against the war in Iraq and the death of her son-in-law has been summoned to court.

British Prime Minister Tony Blair was excused on Tuesday from answering a court summons to appear in the woman's case.

Pat Blackburn's son-in-law Les Hehir, 34, a sergeant in Britain's Royal Artillery, was killed when a US Sea Knight helicopter he was aboard crashed south of the Kuwait border on 21 March 2003.

Blackburn, who was taken to court on Tuesday after withholding $27,348 in tax payments in protest against the war, told Weymouth County Court, in southwest England, that she had refused to pay the tax because Blair had failed in his promise to send her evidence of Saddam Hussein's weapons programme.

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