EMMET Dunphy’s flawed analysis of the situation in Georgia (Letters, August 13), and his consequent petty attempts to take a swipe at anti-war activists, should not pass unchallenged.

At least 10 people were killed today in a new terrorist attack in Chechnya, just two days after dozens of people died in a truck bombing in the war-ravaged Caucasus republic.

A British couple taken hostage when Chechen gunmen stormed a Moscow theatre have been reunited after the 58-hour siege ended in a dramatic rescue bid by Russian special forces.