Al,
I am deeply sorry that you lost your friends in the 9/11 attack, the loss of any life through violence is obscene but is not one sided .
They estimate that between 100000 and 150000 civilian lives have been lost in Iraq. There is no shortage of estimates, but they vary enormously. The Iraqi ministry of health initially tried to keep a count based on morgue records but then stopped releasing figures under pressure from the US-supported government in the Green Zone.
There are two ways to deal with aggression one is with more aggression, one is peacefully. I believe the peaceful approach is the one that works.
I moved to Warrington in Jan 1993, on 20 March 1993 an IRA bomb went off in Warrington town centre killing 12 year old Tim Parry and 3 year old Johnathan Ball, and injuring many others.
COLIN Parry Tim's dad, is that rare and extraordinary person - a still-grieving father who has forgiven his son's murderers for the sake of peace.
His 12-year-old son Tim was one of the victims of the 1993 IRA Warrington bombings and since then he has campaigned relentlessly to bring together divided communities and help those whose lives have been shattered by political violence.
At 12.12pm on 20th March 1993 two bombs exploded in the centre of Warrington, one outside Boots on Bridge Street, the other outside Argos.They injured 54 and killed two children.
After a period of grieving Colin and Wendy Parry stayed with families on either side of the Ulster Divide and visited Eire and America to meet those who raised funds for those terrorists who killed their son.
"We wanted no more families to suffer as we and so many others had suffered," he says. "We wanted peace and that gave a sense of purpose to our lives which would otherwise have been empty of anything but grief and anger and incomprehension.
