ANY question of proof or guilt are matters to be determined by a court of law.

At this stage, in order to apprehend, arrest, detain or charge a suspect it should only be necessary to show that a criminal act has been committed and that there are reasonable grounds for suspicion, writes John Hinton (You Say, October 13).

Mr Hinton has hit the nail on the head. By making the above statement, he must also agree that if a court of justice (not law), is to decide the guilt of the suspects then, why are Tony Blair and George Bush accusing Osama bin Laden already, before being presented in a court of justice?

This further gives ground to my argument that certain countries think of themselves as the judge and jury over all others.

By his very words, Mr Hinton must also agree with me that the following perpetrators of mass genocide need dealing with in the same way as the yet innocent Osama bin Laden.

1 Ariel Sharon must also be brought to justice for his authorisation for the massacre of 2,000 refugees at the UN camps of Shabila and Satra in Lebanon.

2 Milosovic should have been hunted down after evidence of his hand in the genocide of Muslims in the Balkans in the mid-1990s.

3 Putin (Russian President) must also be brought to justice for his ethnic cleansing of the Chechens.

I wonder when the smart bombs, cruise missiles and the bunker-busting missiles will be projected towards Moscow?

SAJID RIASAT,

Worcester