My skin crawled when I read the letter by David Broughton (November 8).

He accuses politicians of being hypocrites and says the September 11 attacks, although horrible, were a lawful act carried out by desperate people.

To anyone with a shred of decency there can be no justification for the cowardly atrocities carried out by terrorists on September 11.

Grievances these people may have had but any respect they deserved evaporated along with thousands of innocent lives on that horrific day.

-Pete Gillman, Brighton