THE carnage in New York, Washington, London, Istanbul, Bali, Beslan, Buenos Aires, Jerba, Jakarta, Jerusalem, Madrid, Mombassa, Moscow, Mumbai, Yemen, Dafur, Nigeria, Kashmir, Zhengzhou, was not carried out by Israel.

ARE Edward Horgan and his colleagues of the Peace and Neutrality Alliance (Letters, August 31) so prejudiced as to forget the positive role played by Tony Blair in three other military/diplomatic ventures which resulted in ridding us of the scourge of Provo IRA violence in the North or helping to solve the Balkan war imbroglio, or dealing with the murderous gangster warlords in Sierra Leone.