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Offline Rockstar

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« on: March 01, 2003, 11:41:57 PM »
Almost all of the first British "human shields" to go to Iraq were on their way home last night after deciding that their much-heralded task was now too dangerous.

Two red double-decker buses, which symbolised the hopes of anti-war activists when they arrived to a fanfare of publicity a fortnight ago, slipped quietly out of Baghdad on the long journey back to Britain.

Nine of the original 11 activists decided to pull out after being given an ultimatum by Iraqi officials to station themselves at targets likely to be bombed in a war or leave the country. Among those departing last night was 68-year-old Godfrey Meynell, a former High Sheriff of Derbyshire, who admitted that he was leaving out of "cold fear". He had been summoned, along with 200 other shields from all over the world, to a meeting at a Baghdad hotel yesterday morning.

Abdul Hashimi, the head of the Friendship, Peace and Solidarity organisation that is hosting the protesters, told the shields to choose between nine so-called "strategic sites" by today or quit the country.

How long before the nimrods from the US figure it out too? The only surprise is that the Iraqis gave them this much warning.


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« Last Edit: March 01, 2003, 11:46:18 PM by Rockstar »
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Offline Russian

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« Reply #1 on: March 01, 2003, 11:59:14 PM »
LOL
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Offline Gyro/T69

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« Reply #2 on: March 02, 2003, 12:15:02 AM »
I guess shielding the bomb shelter at the Baghdad Holiday Inn was out of the question then?
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Offline Maverick

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« Reply #3 on: March 02, 2003, 12:26:17 PM »
We need a Darwin bomb on those two buses ASAP!!!!!
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« Reply #4 on: March 02, 2003, 05:06:29 PM »
Ya think I can get them to surround my m3? That flak keeps popping me.
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« Reply #5 on: March 02, 2003, 06:23:00 PM »
No surprise there and maybe they now have a better insight into how the Iraqi regime works.

The irony was that they were cynically going to sit in hospitals and schools knowing they were never going to be targeted anyway.  But the Iraqis called their bluff just as cynically by asking to sit in actual targets.

Actually getting killed wasn't part of the package.  But watch the spin they put on it when they get back to London.
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« Reply #6 on: March 02, 2003, 09:02:30 PM »
I wonder how many of those "human shields" were relaying information back west... it would be interesting to see what sites were important enough to "defend."
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