How strange no one has mentioned China's hypocrisy in the war against terrorism.

Like Israel, here is a country that steals neighbouring lands in contravention of UN resolutions, then repopulates these areas with its own people using its military strength to crush any opposition.

For decades, China has been using terror tactics to subdue Tibetans, Uighars and Mongolians while the world looks the other way.

In the past 30 years, enough Buddhists, Christians, Muslims, Falun Gong devotees and ordinary Chinese people who wish for democracy have been murdered by the Chinese authorities to fill the World Trade Centre many times over.

The events of September 11 must not allow the Chinese to intensify their continuing war on those resisting totalitarian Communist rule and fighting, like the Tibetans and Uighars, to retain their land, language, way of life and deeply-held religious views.

-E Scott, Church Road, Hove