It is of the highest importance that we should strike at moment war breaks out, or an overbearing ultimatum is received.
The strike at the Honda plant could hardly have happened without official acquiescence.
Britain has just shown how a two-day strike at a Scottish refinery affected deliveries to petrol stations and, more seriously, disrupted oil output.
That won't change the ideas of a Osama bin Laden who are very ideologically fixed on trying to strike at the West, but it will change the pool of young people who they can recruit from.
A message sent at 9.04am said that the fuselage of the first plane at the north tower had caused a second explosion - misinterpreting the second strike at the south tower.