* Former Norwegian prime minister Kjell Magne Bondevik has criticized IKEA for not depicting women assembling furniture in its instruction booklets, despite the fact that many sets of instructions do, in fact, show women.

* 1976 – Former Japanese prime minister Kakuei Tanaka is arrested on suspicion of violating foreign exchange and foreign trade laws in connection with the Lockheed bribery scandals.

Former minister and MP Marwan Hamadeh, who survived a similar car bomb attack on October 1, 2004, said " I accuse this government of incitement, negligence and shortcomings at the least, and of covering up its planning at the most ... if not executing ".

Former Prime Minister John Turner, who as a child knew Bennett while he was prime minister, praised Bennett's promotion of Turner's economist mother to the highest civil service post held by a Canadian woman to that time.

Former Prime Minister Edward Natapei became interim prime minister until a new leader could be elected.

* Former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto was assassinated at an election rally in Rawalpindi on December 27, 2007, by a bomb blast.

* February 12 – Former foreign minister Emilio Castelar becomes prime minister of the new Spanish Republic.

* Wang Meng, prime minister of the Former Qin ( d. 375 )

* Wang Meng, prime minister of the Former Qin ( b. 325 )

Former Swedish prime minister Olof Palme is an important proponent of democratic socialism.

* Arturo Parisi, Former minister of Difesa and member of Margherita

Former prime minister David Ben-Gurion succeeded Lavon as minister of defense.

Former minister Annemarie Jorritsma-Lebbink ( VVD ) has been the mayor of Almere since 16 August 2003.

Former Dutch prime minister Jan Peter Balkenende started his political career as member of the council for Amstelveen.

* BBC -- Former Tory minister Profumo dies

Former prime minister Kiichi Miyazawa ordered Japanese government agencies to reduce the rate of employees who had attended the university's law faculty to below 50 percent due to concerns about diversity in the bureaucracy.

* Victor D. Norman – Former minister of labor and administration and professor of economy at NHH.

* AP: " Former Norway prime minister Korvald dies " ( in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 4 July 2006 )

* Former Social Democratic and Labour Party minister in Northern Ireland and deputy SDLP leader, Bríd Rodgers

* Knut Vollebæk — Former Foreign minister of Norway

File: Bundesarchiv Bild 102-12088, Bernhard Dernburg. jpg | Former DDP minister Bernhard Dernburg in 1931

Former prime minister Vilson Ahmeti is placed under house arrest, following charges of corruption.

Former minister of the interior Donaldo Álvarez Ruiz, who remains at large, and ex-chiefs of police German Chupina Barahona and Pedro García Arredondo are also named on the international arrest warrants.

Former UK Minister of Defence Geoff Hoon commented on this issue in 2007 and said, " There was an enormous amount of post-war planning.

* Geoff Cooke, Former England Rugby International

Former Northern Ireland international Martin O ' Neill, in his first managerial role, led Wycombe Wanderers to two wins, and Geoff Chapple managed Kingstonian to victory twice and Woking three times, all within the space of seven years.

Former premier Geoff Gallop banned cabinet ministers from contact with Burke, but this was lifted by his successor Alan Carpenter when he took office in February 2006.

Former cast and correspondents have included: Tommy Tallarico, Julie Stoffer, Jade Raymond, Geoff Keighley, and Donna Mei-Ling Park.

Former Liverpool legend, Geoff Twentyman, then came along as manager and brought the Ulster Cup to the Showgrounds in 1960 with a 3 – 1 win over Glenavon.

Former Exodus bassist Geoff Andrews co-founded Possessed before Becerra replaced him in 1983, taking over both vocal and bass duties.

Former bassist Geoff Firebaugh founded a rockabilly band named Hillbilly Casino that are a crowd favorite in downtown Nashville on lower Broadway.

Former Hole guitarist Erlandson stated in Spin magazine that contractually no reunion can take place without his involvement ; therefore Nobody's Daughter would remain Love's solo record, as opposed to a " Hole " record.

Former U. S. Senator George Mitchell, who prepared the report, stated that he relayed the allegations to each athlete implicated in the report and gave them a chance to respond before his findings were published.

Former President Niyazov stated that the neutrality would prevent Turkmenistan from participating in multi-national defense organizations, but allows military assistance.

Former Chief Justice Gerard Brennan stated that " so long as we retain the existing system our head of state is determined for us essentially by the parliament at Westminster.

Former Indian captain and International umpire Venkataraghavan stated " Azharuddin had the best wrists in the game, but Tendulkar isn't too far behind " while praising Sachin Tendulkar.

Former World Champion Bobby Fischer, noting that " Morphy and Capablanca had enormous talent ", stated further that Morphy had the talent to beat any player of any era if " given time to study modern theory and ideas ".

Former Mayor Burke stated that he would not appeal the decision further to the U. S. Supreme Court.

Former premier of Ontario Bob Rae has stated that the Charter " functions as a symbol for all Canadians " in practice because it represents the core value of freedom.

* Former President of the United States Thomas Jefferson, in a letter to William H. Crawford, Secretary of War under President James Madison, on June 20, 1816: " In your letter to Fisk, you have fairly stated the alternatives between which we are to choose: 1, licentious commerce and gambling speculations for a few, with eternal war for the many ; or, 2, restricted commerce, peace, and steady occupations for all.

During a memoral service for Rex Lee, Former Acting Solicitor General Walter Dellinger stated that even after years of separation, Lee's influence was still felt in the Office of the Solicitor General.

Dr Martin Stephen, Former High Master of St Paul's, has stated he believes that " league tables put massive pressure on headmasters to do bad things " and has announced that St Paul's will be joining other private schools in London in withdrawing from the ISC's 2008 league tables.

Former Toronto Sun editor Peter Worthington has stated that the Sun will never run a topless Sunshine Girl.

Former Temple member Tim Carter stated that the reasons for choosing Guyana were the Temple's view of creeping fascism, the perceived dominance of multinational corporations on the government, and perceived racism in the U. S. government.

Former U. S. attorney general Edwin Meese stated that in his opinion, since the appointments were made when the Senate was " demonstrably not in recess " they represented " a constitutional abuse of a high order.

Former Executive Producer, Andi Peters, stated that there was " no policy " on miming and said that it was entirely up to the performer if they wanted to sing live or mime.

Former University of the Philippines president Francisco Nemenzo stated that: " Without Radio Veritas, it would have been difficult, if not impossible, to mobilize millions of people in a matter of hours.

Former Mayor Ken Livingstone stated that he had " absolutely no plans to set up a congestion charging zone to charge vehicles that use the Blackwall Tunnel or the Blackwall Tunnel Approach Road.

Former Croatian Prime Minister Ivo Sanader previously stated " that certainly won't be nor can it be an embassy because the Republika Srpska government is not the government of a sovereign state nor can it be ".

Former SNP leader, William Wolfe has stated that this breakaway was more to do with local personal political ambition than over any ideological dispute.

The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia stated in Prosecutor v. Furundžija that there is a jus cogens for the prohibition against torture.

Former CEO Francesco Caio publicly stated the aim of making C & W the preferred alternative to BT in the UK.

Former Social Democratic minister Leif Pagrotsky stated that internal fighting, authoritarianism and perceived aggressiveness as well as a loss of appeal to the middle class and city inhabitants contributed to the election loss.

Former FBI analyst and profiler Clint Van Zandt has criticized the use of psychic detectives and has stated that " What happens many times is that professed psychics allow themselves the benefit of 20 / 20 hindsight.

Former Prime Minister Chrétien has often stated that the Clarity Act was among his proudest achievements in federal politics.

Former Beatle George Harrison has stated that this was one of his favorite recordings.