Hi Bobert,

I am not a pretty boy, neither am I a parrot.

I am expressing my own opinion. Here in China I am not deluged by TV or radio. I have time to read widely and make my own mind up.

Terrorist groups will use this for their own propaganda, because that is the nature of a terrorist organisation. Their simple violent acts are designed to grab headlines and they do not care when, who or how they kill or the after effects, just so long as it meets with their own ideals.

What better result than to additionly claim a 'first' in influencing a democratic election. That is something the IRA could never have claimed in all their bombing campaigns.

I too have deep reservations about governments using a war for their own ends, having had three close friends killed in action during the Falklands war.