It's very easy to start a war but the muftah, as the Arabs say, the key to switch off a war, is very difficult to find.

In just one year in Bosnia, thirty of my colleagues died. There is a little Somme waiting for all innocent journalists.

The sheer violence of it, the howl of air raid sirens and the air-cutting fall of the missiles carried its own political message; not just to President Saddam but to the rest of the world. We are the superpower, those explosions said last night. This is how we do business.

I was very struck by the fact that Colin Powell said he would produce evidence and then never produced it. Then Tony Blair produced a document of seventy paragraphs, but only the last nine referred to the World Trade Center, and they were not convincing. So we have a little problem here: If they're guilty, where is the evidence? And if we can't hear the evidence, why are we going to war?

And history`s fingers never relax their grip, never leave us unmolested, can touch us even when we would never imagine their presence.

Bin Laden is not well read and he's not sophisticated, but he will have worked out very coldly what America would do.

In Palestine, the Israelis claim they found a land without people,' a Syrian officer explained to us. 'Now they will take southern Lebanon and claim they have found another land without people if these refugees do not return.