LESSING SAYS 9/11 WAS 'NOT THAT BAD'

Last updated: Wednesday, October 24, 2007

LESSING SAYS 9/11 WAS 'NOT THAT BAD'

Author DORIS LESSING has sparked public outrage after deeming the 11 September attacks 'not that terrible' compared with the IRA's terror campaign.

DORIS LESSING

Lessing, 88, who won the Nobel Prize for literature earlier this month (Oct), said the Twin Tower attacks were not as "extraordinary" as some people think.

She tells Spanish newspaper El Pais, "Some Americans will think I'm crazy... but it was neither as terrible or as extraordinary as they think.

The Golden Notebook author added that "people forget" the IRA bomb attack on Margaret Thatcher's government in 1984.

Source: WENN

| Wednesday, October 24, 2007

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