(Aug 6, 2005) Former British Foreign Secretary Robin Cook, 59, who revealed just after the 7/7 London transport bombings that Al Qaeda was the name of a CIA database of US-trained Mujaheddin and who was a harsh critic of Tony Blair and the United States for the Iraq War, collapsed while walking near Laxford Bridge in northwest Scotland. Cook, who often walked and was thought to be in good physical health, was flown by helicopter to Inverness where he died in hospital.

Earlier, The Guardian reported "Cook's former parliamentary private secretary Ken Purchase said that he had heard conflicting stories from media sources, that the ex-foreign secretary was in hospital either because he had collapsed while out walking, or had been involved in an accident."

Meanwhile, another Labor Party Iraq War critic, former Northern Ireland Secretary Mo Mowlam, was fighting for her life in a London hospital in "stable but critical condition."

Mowlam had entered hospital last weekend and it was undetermined if her condition was related to the recurrence of a previous brain tumor.

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