Parallels with Bush's 'war on terror'?

Belfast Telegraph’s journalist of the year Mary Fitzgerald is on secondment to the newsroom at the Washington Post. She was at the US Republican National Convention to get David Trimble’s reaction to Karl Rove’s view that the war against terrorism was exactly comparible to that fought by the British against the IRA during the troubles.

On a lighter note, Slugger has word from one New York reader that DT attended the convention in the company of a rather dapperly dressed Ken Maginnis.

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