"The Israelis will pay a heavy price for this," he said, adding that there were many injured inside the building.There is some speculation here that Mr Sharon's government's policy may be to try to force Mr Arafat to go into exile voluntarily, by putting so much pressure on him in Ramallah. But Mr Sharon offered Mr Arafat the chance to go into exile in April ­ and was refused.After six weeks without a suicide bombing, many Israelis had begun to believe Mr Sharon's policy of reoccupying West Bank towns and putting Palestinians under near constant curfew was working. Now that feeling has evaporated and it was clear the Israeli government needed to try something new But yesterday's policy was a variation on a familiar theme The focus of Israel's repsonse was, as ever, Mr Arafat. But responsibility for this week's two suicide bombings was claimed by Hamas and Islamic Jihad, the two major Islamist Palestinian militant groups, and Mr Arafat is believed to have little power or influence to rein in either of them from their continued violence.. The image of the naked nine-year-old screaming in terror and pain from her burns as she ran from a napalm attack helped to turn American public opinion against the Vietnam war. "My wish, my dream, is that I want everybody around the world to respect peace We have to come together by negotiation Let them know war just destroys, kills and causes loss Nobody wins.

From my point of view, from the point of view of that little girl, I cannot see another victim suffer like me. It is enough."Mrs Kim admits she is no politician, but she just wants to give the view of a child who learnt more than most about war on 8 June 1972 when four napalm bombs were dropped on her village of Trang Bang, north of Saigon, in a botched "friendly fire" raid by US and South Vietnamese planes.Two of her cousins who had been sheltering with her in a pagoda died, she suffered severe burns to more than half of her body and she was given little chance of survival. After 35 per cent skin grafts, 17 operations, and 14 months in hospital, she began studying medicine in Ho Chi Minh City.But the picture had become so famous that the fate of the terrified girl remained a source of curiosity and on the 10th anniversary of the attack she was traced by a German journalist.The Vietnamese government realised her propaganda potential, took her out of medical school sent her on tours of the country to educate people about the evils of capitalism and America, then sent her to Cuba."I was in first year of medical school, which was all my hopes and dreams, but I had to cut short my studies Then I was not a free person at all," she said. She defected to Canada in 1992 and settled in Toronto, hoping to escape her past But the picture came back to haunt her. In 1997 her husband, Bui Huy Toan, saw her in a local newspaper exposed as the "child of war", after a British journalist tracked her down.She realised trying to escape the image was futile so she decided to use it to promote peace, and set up a charity, the Kim Foundation, to help children injured in war. She has forgiven the pilot who dropped the bombs and become a Unesco goodwill ambassador.Mrs Kim added: "The picture is a really powerful gift for me to use to promote peace.''She will speak on the theme of forgiveness tomorrow at Westminster Chapel as part of the FaceValues campaign run by the Evangelical Alliance..

Two cities in Ivory Coast were still held by renegade soldiers yesterday despite the crushing of an attempted coup. Witnesses said rebels had disarmed loyalist troops in the bases and seized their uniforms, which they were handing out to new civilian recruits.Around the military base in Abidjan, where the uprising began, paramilitary police set fire to dozens of houses, saying they needed to secure the area Residents fled in panic. Most come from neighbouring Muslim countries and are viewed with suspicion by government supporters in the predominantly Christian south. Bullet-torn bodies lay outside the base in front of a destroyed tank.Sporadic gunfire sounded overnight in Abidjan, but subsided by the morning.

Security forces drove through the city with guns at the ready, arresting any men found without identification papers.In the northern city of Korhogo, an opposition stronghold, renegade soldiers handed out guns to civilians and cruised the city in commandeered vehicles, firing into the air. Loyalist troops were tied up inside their captured bases, according to wives and children released by the renegades.State-run radio broadcast a statement by the Sports Minister, Francois Albert Amichia, who was captured on Thursday by the renegades in Bouak?Mr Amichia identified his captors as soldiers dismissed recently by the government in what had been seen as an attempt to purge the army of disloyal elements. He said the renegades were asking only to be reintegrated in the armed forces and were ready to negotiate.But the Defence Minister, Lida Moise Kouassi, said the authorities would not talk to the rebels until they put down their arms. He said loyalist forces were gathering in the capital, Yamoussoukro, in the centre of the country, and would drive out the attackers if they resisted.Paramilitary police said a column of military trucks left Abidjan yesterday morning to put down what Mr Kouassi called the "last pockets of resistance" in the north.The Prime Minister, Affi N'Guessan, was holding an emergency cabinet meeting to discuss further measures, and President Laurent Gbagbo cut short a state visit to Rome, cancelling an audience with the Pope. A presidential spokesman blamed the uprising on "deserters and other elements external to the armed forces who have come to assault the Ivory Coast".After hours of heavy gunfire and explosions that left the Interior Minister, Emile Boga Doudou, and a number of senior military officers dead, the government said it had regained control over most of the country. The airport reopened and residents were urged to return to work, but the streets remained largely deserted.