ANGRY Tony Blair named and shamed Left-wing newspapers yesterday for wobbling over the war on terror.
The Prime Minister published a dossier to mark 100 days passing since September 11.
It listed the Allies’ military, diplomatic and humanitarian successes so far and hailed “acts of unity, tolerance, bravery and responsibility” in the face of the terrorism threat.
But in a clear swipe at wobblers and doubters, the Premier also detailed “10 media views which have proved to be wrong”.
JOHN Pilger in The Mirror on October 29, who claimed “the war against terrorism is a fraud”.
ROBERT Fisk in The Independent on November 11, who suggested Osama bin Laden “hasn’t put a foot wrong” and that “things are unfolding pretty much as he wanted”.
GEORGE Monbiot in The Guardian on September 18: “The closer you look, the weaker the case against bin Laden becomes.”
SUSAN Sontag in US magazine The New Yorker on September 24: “If the word ‘cowardly’ is to be used, it might be more aptly applied to those who kill from beyond the range of retaliation, high in the sky, than to those willing to die themselves in order to kill others.”
The dossier — entitled 100 Days, 100 Ways, 100 days of fighting international terrorism - gave evidence of bin Laden’s guilt.
It also highlighted that since the toppling of the Taliban women can work and study while music, games and TV are no longer banned.
Mr Blair’s anger at certain media coverage of the Allied campaign was demonstrated by the decision for Europe Minister Peter Hain to launch the report at a conference inside Downing Street.
The dossier took a second swing at Robert Fisk for another article in The Independent.
It also rapped Madeleine Bunting in The Guardian, who said the conflict would become like Vietnam, and Natasha Walter in The Independent, who said Afghan women’s interests would be ignored
Also criticised were Arundhati Roy in The Guardian, a Daily Mail editorial and Seamus Milne in The Guardian.
Mr Hain slammed “excitable speculation at almost every point" of the war, saying: “Everything has been done in a careful, systematic way."
PETER Hain warned that new terror bases would spring up in Afghanistan and “disintegration, conflict and instability” would ensue if the West turned its back on the country.
The Prime Minister published a dossier to mark 100 days passing since September 11.
It listed the Allies’ military, diplomatic and humanitarian successes so far and hailed “acts of unity, tolerance, bravery and responsibility” in the face of the terrorism threat.
But in a clear swipe at wobblers and doubters, the Premier also detailed “10 media views which have proved to be wrong”.
JOHN Pilger in The Mirror on October 29, who claimed “the war against terrorism is a fraud”.
ROBERT Fisk in The Independent on November 11, who suggested Osama bin Laden “hasn’t put a foot wrong” and that “things are unfolding pretty much as he wanted”.
GEORGE Monbiot in The Guardian on September 18: “The closer you look, the weaker the case against bin Laden becomes.”
SUSAN Sontag in US magazine The New Yorker on September 24: “If the word ‘cowardly’ is to be used, it might be more aptly applied to those who kill from beyond the range of retaliation, high in the sky, than to those willing to die themselves in order to kill others.”
The dossier — entitled 100 Days, 100 Ways, 100 days of fighting international terrorism - gave evidence of bin Laden’s guilt.
It also highlighted that since the toppling of the Taliban women can work and study while music, games and TV are no longer banned.
Mr Blair’s anger at certain media coverage of the Allied campaign was demonstrated by the decision for Europe Minister Peter Hain to launch the report at a conference inside Downing Street.
The dossier took a second swing at Robert Fisk for another article in The Independent.
It also rapped Madeleine Bunting in The Guardian, who said the conflict would become like Vietnam, and Natasha Walter in The Independent, who said Afghan women’s interests would be ignored
Also criticised were Arundhati Roy in The Guardian, a Daily Mail editorial and Seamus Milne in The Guardian.
Mr Hain slammed “excitable speculation at almost every point" of the war, saying: “Everything has been done in a careful, systematic way."
PETER Hain warned that new terror bases would spring up in Afghanistan and “disintegration, conflict and instability” would ensue if the West turned its back on the country.
