Justice must be brought 'without innocents suffering' - Hume

The United States government is right to bring the Taliban and its allies to justice but must do so without inflicting suffering on innocent people, Nobel Peace Prize laureate John Hume said today.

The outgoing SDLP leader, who won the Nobel prize in 1998 with Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble for their efforts to bring peace to Northern Ireland, said September 11’s terror attacks on New York and Washington were ‘‘catastrophic’’.