Blair apologises for error that saw Irish bomb suspect go free

By Kylie MacLellan LONDON (Reuters) - Former British prime minister Tony Blair on Tuesday defended a scheme informing Irish nationalist militants they were no longer wanted by police, but apologised that such a letter was wrongly sent to a man wanted over a deadly car bombing in London. Suspected members of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) received the letters as part of a 1998 peace deal that largely ended three decades of sectarian violence over Britain's rule of Northern Ireland that cost