IRA campaign far worse than 9/11, says Lessing

NOBEL Prize-winning author Doris Lessing has called the September 11 attacks “not that terrible” compared to the campaign of terror waged by the IRA.

British Ms Lessing, 88, who won the Nobel Prize for literature earlier this month, said the attacks were not as “extraordinary” as some Americans think.

She told Spanish newspaper El Pais: “September 11 was terrible, but if one goes back over the history of the IRA, what happened to the Americans wasn’t that terrible.