Letter: Bin Laden could use that defence

OPINION: I am appalled by the verdicts in the Waihopai Three case. Frankly, the defence of "a greater good" is little different from that used by Osama bin Laden, Hamas suicide bombers or even the IRA.

In any case, their position is not moral, but political, and, in fact, gives tacit support to mass murderers such as Saddam Hussein and religious thugs such as the Taleban. The vast majority of civilian casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan have been caused by locals, not Western forces.

DAVID FARLOW

Masterton

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