SHAME on Julian Cole and his champion Mr P Taylor (Letters, September 22) for advocating a spineless policy of appeasement in reply to the most cruel and dastardly terrorist action ever committed.

Those who were around when Mr Chamberlain made the same mistake, lived and died to prove he was wrong.

Also where did Mr M Haining find such a nice name for terrorists - fundamentalists (September 22)?

What had the men, women, and children in the planes, and in the buildings, done to upset the fundamentalists?

We should annihilate these 'fundamentalists' as quickly as possible.

K A Smillie.

Mill Lane,

Updated: 10:18 Thursday, September 27, 2001