Terrorism is terrorism

BRITISH Prime Minister Tony Blair has made a mockery of his recent tough talk against terrorism with his bizarre comments on the IRA on July 26.

Mr Blair dismissed comparisons of the IRA to al-Qaida because he did not think “the IRA would ever have set about trying to kill 3,000 people”.

Has Mr Blair forgotten that the IRA has targeted the lives of at least 3,000 innocent people over the past 30 years, and was successful in extinguishing over 1,800 of these lives?