Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was slated to meet with British Prime Minister Tony Blair during a refueling stopover in Britain en route to the United States. British officials rejected reports in Israel that Blair did not want to meet with Sharon because of a BBC television program aired last week in which some lawyers said Sharon could be indicted on war crimes charges in connection with the massacre of Palestinian civilians by Christian militiamen during the 1982 Lebanon War.
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