Reply #3: Blair isn't important enough to get consulted on that

[muriel_volestrangler]

The UK government has condemned the attack, but so what?
In a move that immediately attracted widespread condemnation, including from Foreign Secretary Jack Straw who described the killing as illegal, Rantissi was killed with two aides as missiles slammed into his car.

'The British Government has made it repeatedly clear that so-called "targeted assassinations" of this kind are unlawful, unjustified and counter-productive,' Straw said last night.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,1194569,00.html

In fact, Time magazine doesn't think any Western European leaders are that important:
The editor-at-large of Time, Michael Elliott, who oversaw the list, defended the decision to exclude Mr Blair.

"Gerhard Schröder and Jacques Chirac are not there either," Mr Elliott said. "This is a worldwide list. There are no Western European political leaders on it because they are not that powerful or influential at this time."
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/story.jsp?story=512515

But the Prime Minister of Mozambique, Luisa Diogo, does make the list (but not President Thabo Mbeki of South Africa - can anyone say why Diogo is held to be so influential?)