In is reportage, on the pacifist ones which envisages to go to Iraq in
the bus to constitute human shields in order to avoid the war, Marga Ortigas of the CNN,
mentions the various positions. Washington: 24 hours after the departure of London for
Baghdad of pacifist on board bus to imperial and a London taxi in the hope to prevent the
bombardments of the Americans and their allies, the Bush administration criticizes their
efforts.
" We cannot advise that people let themselves use by a tyrant and a dictator, known
to have made horrible things with its own people and his neighbors. It is not the moment
that people indicate themselves like shields humains", a declared Andrew Card,
chief of staff of the White House, in Fox News Sunday.Saturday, the participants as for
them declared that they hoped that their presence would prevent the programmers of war
from in the long term carrying out their threats to attack Iraq, marked to have piled
up weapons of massive destruction, in violation of the resolutions of UNO.
" the possibility of white Western bodies flying in glares at the same time as the
Iraqis should make them still think of this war imperialist of oil ", affirmed
Saturday Ken O' Keefe, un of the volunteers, organizer, old marine American of the
war of the Gulf of 1991.
The group of 60 volunteers includes British, Americans, Spaniards, the Brazilian ones, the
Australian ones and Israelis, old from 20 to 60 years.
According to the volunteer Sweats Darling, the pacifist ones envisage to roll night and
day through Europe then Turkey, to arrive at the Iraqi border February the 4 or 5 when the
authorities will give them visas of entry.
One of the participants declared with the CNN that forwarding must be joined on February
15 by another convoy of perhaps several hundreds of volunteers.
" Our intention is to return politically impossible George Bush and to Tony Blair to
carry out this war", known John Letts, owner of two of the buses and also
driver. Letts, father of four children, tells that the pacifist coalition came to require
of him council for the way to Baghdad and that it then proposed his assistance and its
buses for the cause.
The buses with imperial were modified to receive campbeds for the voyage which must
last two weeks. The buses of Letts are red but the third bus and the taxi were painted in
white. A white flag, to symbolize peace, was placed on the roof of the taxi.
In an interview on line in December, O' Keefe declared: " We will run the risk to be
mutilated or killed but it is simply the same risk as that which the innocent Iraqis will
have to face themselves. I would prefer to die for peace and justice that ' prospérer'
while me making accessory to the war and massive murders ".
O' Keefe gave up its American nationality in 1999. As for Known Darling, 60 ans,
it adds that it is a former British diplomat at the United Nations.
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the media cover of the departure of the 1st convoy of human shields was assured
par (Si vous connaissez of
autres médias, thank you to send their URL by enamel to us): BBC News Website 24th
January, CNN News Website, Scotsman News On-line, The Independent, News24.com, ABC News
Australia, CNN Carryforward 2,
IOL South Africa, Hindustan Times, India Online Islam, ITV News the U.K., Crosswalk.com,
Times Of Oman, Yahoo News, New Zealand Herald. " GULF Daily News, Voice of Bahrain
" published an article on January 24
on the action but it was withdrawn from the site and the files current events and became
apparently irremediable. |
