Sombre Blair drums home war message

For the third time since September 11, the Prime Minister, in sombre but workmanlike mood, updated a recalled House of Commons on the course of events since the terrorist atrocities on the United States.

But this time it was war. Even as he addressed the crowded, hushed Chamber a new wave of attacks was being launched on military and terrorist targets in Afghanistan, with lives in the air and on the ground in peril.