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Cook backtracks

LONDON MARCH 31 . A day after demanding that British troops be withdrawn before more of them are killed, Robin Cook made a somersault saying he did not favour abandoning the battle or "letting Saddam off the hook".

Mr. Cook, who had put in his papers disagreeing with the British Prime Minister, Tony Blair's decision to go ahead with the war without a second U.N. resolution, had called in an article in the Sunday Mirror for British troops to be brought home from this "bloody and unnecessary war". The Home Secretary, David Blunkett, who was dispatched by Mr. Blair to stamp on Mr. Cook, took to the airwaves to mount an attack, questioning the former Foreign Secretary's patriotism. — PTI

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