Showing that Rev. Johnson’s group was not alone, a self-described “23-year-old Jewish-American photographer,” Daniel Pepper, detailed his conversion in a column in The Daily Telegraph of London. He wrote that he, like the other human shields, was “less interested in standing up for [Iraqis’] rights than protesting against the U.S. and U.K. governments.” But five weeks in Baghdad and repeated contact with ordinary Iraqis left him with “a strong desire to see Saddam removed.”
Here's the link to Daniel Pepper's article: I was a naive fool to be a human shield for Saddam (MUST, MUST READ!)
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Rev. Kenneth Johnson told United Press International that Iraqis he interviewed on camera “told me they would commit suicide if American bombing didn’t start. They were willing to see their homes demolished to gain their freedom from Saddam’s bloody tyranny.”
After talking with the Iraqi people—not the propagandists on Saddam’s payroll the outside world sees—Rev. Johnson realized that Saddam is “a monster the likes of which the world had not seen since Stalin and Hitler.” He explained: “Their tales of slow torture and killing made me ill, such as people put in a huge shredder for plastic products, feet first so the [torture masters] could hear their screams as bodies got chewed up from foot to head.”
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