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Last Modified: 24 Oct 2007
By: Channel 4 News

The new Nobel laureate Doris Lessing says that 9/11 was not as bad as the IRA. More4 News asks if she is right?

The new winner of the Nobel prize for literature, Doris Lessing, has accused Americans of over-reacting to 9/11, and said that it wasn't as bad as the conflict in Northern Ireland.

She's been accused of tastelessness to even draw a comparison. So - which was worse - 9/11 or Northern Ireland ? David Fuller's tried to find out.