WHAT a cheek foreign minister Robin Cook has to call for a Nuremberg-type war crimes trial for heads of other states for defending their own people's interest.

The exact charges against the Nazi leaders were 'making aggressive war'.

It wasn't the Yugoslavian leaders that attacked us, but the other way around.

At least the American leaders know better and refused to go along with Cook's ridiculous proposal, knowing such a charge could backfire.

It's amazing how many people approach the Alternative Information Centre -- Saturday at noon at the Town Hall Square -- and say they didn't know Iraq was continually attacked by Anglo-American war planes and sanctions illegally imposed; thus vital medicines and food being denied to the desperately sick and poor.

Even painkillers cannot be sent to Iraq. There, people dying of cancer must die in agony!

Already, a million children have died because of these sanctions.

Make no mistake about it -- the new world order of NATO, EU and the Anglo-American demand is taking over all the world's resources and industries by the speculating rich.

I see BT has just announced last year's profit of a whopping £3 billion. That's more than the country was compensated when the telephone industry was swiped from the Post Office!

Only because democratically elected President Milosevic stood by his people and wouldn't allow NATO to privatise the country's industries, was defenceless Yugoslavia brutally attacked.

Thousands died, industries were destroyed, the economy was ruined and masses of workers made unemployed.

Who are the criminals?

Bertie Lewis

Alternative Information Centre

Taunton Drive

Farnworth