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An Italian woman artist who was hitch-hiking to the Middle East dressed as a bride to promote world peace has been found murdered in Turkey. The naked body of Giuseppina Pasqualino di Marineo, 33, known as Pippa Bacca, was found in bushes near the northern city of Gebze on Friday. She had said she wanted to show that she could put her trust in the kindness of local people. Turkish police say they have detained a man in connection with the killing. Reports say the man led the police to the body. Ms di Marineo was hitch-hiking from Milan to...

"Peace Activists" Slap Female Blogger Twice--Encourage Others to Violence" Written by Melanie Morgan    Sunday, 23 March 2008 Many times I have been threatened with violence, as well as our staff at Move America Forward. We simply shrug off the danger, and continue with our work to support our troops. 'Skye' at MidnightBlue.com wasn't so lucky yesterday in Philadelphia, Pa. She was slapped TWICE by so-called 'peace activists'. Video verifying 'Skye's' account coming shortly. And photos. 'Skye' with Michelle Malkin. Skye with Larry Bailey of Gathering of Eagles. She sent me two e-mails. Here's the first. Melanie, I am...

He's been fasting for nearly three weeks, gaining little notice even from the target of his protest. But Jerry Peace Activist Rubin is willing to refrain from eating for at least another three weeks and then another three weeks after that and then. ... Well, you get the idea. His goal: Persuade Ralph Nader to drop his quadrennial bid for the presidency - or at least explain to Rubin why he's running again in 2008. Rubin, who has launched more than 30 fasts over the past 25 years, is worried that Nader will play a spoiler role, as he believes...

CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - Omar Osama bin Laden bears a striking resemblance to his notorious father—except for the dreadlocks that dangle halfway down his back. Then there's the black leather biker jacket. The 26-year-old does not renounce his father, al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, but in an interview with The Associated Press, he said there is better way to defend Islam than militancy: Omar wants to be an "ambassador for peace" between Muslims and the West. Omar—one of bin Laden's 19 children—raised a tabloid storm last year when he married a 52-year-old British woman, Jane Felix-Browne, who took the name...

CAIRO, Egypt - Omar Osama bin Laden bears a striking resemblance to his notorious father — except for the dreadlocks that dangle halfway down his back. Then there's the black leather biker jacket. The 26-year-old does not renounce his father, al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, but in an interview with The Associated Press, he said there is better way to defend Islam than militancy: Omar wants to be an "ambassador for peace" between Muslims and the West. Omar — one of bin Laden's 19 children — raised a tabloid storm last year when he married a 52-year-old British woman, Jane...

AN American peace activist deported from Australia last year and two detained Iraqi asylum seekers have been granted access to ASIO documents that deemed them security risks. Peace activist Scott Parkin was classified a national security risk while on holiday in Australia last September and was deported. Iraqi asylum seekers Mohammad Sagar and Muhammad Faisal, who have been detained for more than five years, also received adverse security assessments from ASIO. The three men applied to the Federal Court for access to the ASIO documents after the federal Government refused to release them. Justice Ross Sundberg today granted them access...

Woman on diverted flight 'barely lucid' By MELISSA TRUJILLO, Associated Press Writer 50 minutes ago A woman on a trans-Atlantic flight diverted to Boston for security concerns passed several notes to crew members, urinated on the cabin floor and made comments the crew believed were references to al-Qaida and the Sept. 11 attacks, according to an affidavit filed Thursday. Catherine C. Mayo, 59, of Braintree, Vt., appeared in federal court Thursday on a charge of interfering with a flight crew on United 923 as it flew from London to Washington, D.C., Wednesday. She was dressed in a Rolling Stones T-shirt,...

ARLINGTON, VA. -- The death of "peace activist" Tom Fox, and the threatened execution of the three others held with him in Iraq, is doubly tragic. It is tragic whenever an innocent person is murdered. It is also tragic because the likelihood that the presence of Mr. Fox and his colleagues would change the attitude or behavior of their captors was zero to none. That the "peace activists" believed their brand of Christianity would trump the fanatical Muslims who regarded them as infidels and worthy of death meant that Mr. Fox and the others would either be used for propaganda...

Introduction and Summary Recently, I heard a peace activist on a local talk radio show in the morning. The female host is locally known for her left-leaning opinions and politics, but I still call in to disagree (and on rare cases, agree) and make a case for my opinion. In this case, it was a young peace activist condemning the war. The host expressed some amazement that his rallies were not having a high turnout. I called up and debated him on the air. The host did not want us going back to the past and talking about the war’s...

I've been arguing the Iraq war and its motivations for a couple of weeks with a peace activist (and been advertising it on my tagline). I've pretty much clobbered him on every other aspect of the debate, and now he's shifted to hugging the United Nations. This is part of what he wrote: If you are willing to admit that by invading Iraq in March 2003, President Bush technically violated the specific wording of the provisions in the UN Charter that cover the allowable use of military force, I would be willing to answer all your other questions and continue...

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Al-Jazeera broadcast an insurgent video Tuesday showing four peace activists taken hostage in Iraq, with a previously unknown group claiming responsibility for the kidnappings. The Swords of Righteousness Brigade said the four were spies working undercover as Christian peace activists, Al-Jazeera said. The station said it could not verify any of the information on the tape. The aid group Christian Peacemaker Teams has confirmed that four of its members were taken hostage Saturday. German television broadcast photos Tuesday showing a blindfolded German woman being led away by armed captors in Iraq. Six Iranian pilgrims, meanwhile, were abducted...

TORONTO - Efforts to negotiate the release of two Canadians held hostage in Iraq were feverish Monday, but there was no indication the peace workers were any closer to freedom. With lives at stake, authorities were being extraordinarily careful in providing any information about the hostages. Even the peace workers' organization requested its name not be publicized, saying other members of its team in Iraq were worried that identification could put the hostages or themselves in jeopardy. "Release of any details is really detrimental to people who are in danger," said a Toronto spokeswoman for the group. Four foreigners were...

Other group helping in Iraq not prosecuted Friday, March 07, 2003By Renee K. Gadoua The same federal act used to indict three Central New Yorkers accused of illegally sending money to Iraq has not been enforced against at least a dozen local residents who openly violated U.S. law by traveling there. The International Emergency Economic Powers Act authorizes U.S. sanctions against Iraq. Four Muslims, including three Onondaga County residents, were indicted Feb. 26 on charges that include violating the act by using the Syracuse-based charity Help the Needy to send money to Iraq without a license. About 600 people have...

Rita Preckshot went to a peace rally, and a fight broke out. It started out as a typical Wednesday for Preckshot, a 49-year-old who stands about 5-foot-2 and has hearing aids in both ears. She was standing on her normal spot on Providence Road, holding her signs in support of American soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan. For nearly four years now, this has been Preckshot’s life from about 4:15 to about 5:45 in the afternoon once a week. She started her solo troop-support effort to counteract the peace protesters who stand a couple of blocks away at the intersection of...

When The New York Times, “Nightline,” and CNN nominate a young blonde for sainthood ahead of the Pope, it’s time for a reality check. Especially when that blonde, Marla Ruzicka’s sole purpose is to legitimize our enemies, cause problems for U.S. troops already in harms way, and morally equivocate dead terrorists with victims of 9/11. Jane Fonda lite—but unfortunately without having been spat upon by right-thinking veterans. The recent death of Ruzicka, an American “activist” in Iraq, elicited an orgy of gush—everywhere from Time Magazine to The Guardian of London to Al-Jazeera. A 28-year-old San Franciscan, Ruzicka was in Iraq...

This is LONDON 08/04/04 - News and city section 'We will burn them alive' An Iraqi group has kidnapped three Japanese hostages, including one woman, and promised to burn them alive if Japan does not withdraw its forces from Iraq. Al Jazeera television screened a video today showing three Japanese dressed in civilian clothes. They are believed to be two journalists and an aid worker The television said a statement by the hitherto unknown Iraqi group called Saraya al-Mujahideen had given Japan three days from the airing of the video to withdraw its troops from Iraq before it killed the...

The letters have already started arriving in the mail boxes of 190 leaders of nations, rebellions and warring factions. Each one bears a South Portland postmark. The letters make a simple request: Put an end to war for one 24-hour period, from midnight to midnight on Aug. 22, 2004. No guns. No tanks. No killing. The "Just 1 Day" campaign is the idea of Kevin Malcom, a 45-year-old auto-parts clerk with a vision: A single day of peace that would show the world that it is possible, here and now. He's been called naive and unrealistic, but he says he...

Frank Gubasta is a 47-year-old peace activist from Fort Myers, Florida. CP: Did you see the events of 911 live, as they happened in real time as opposed to later in the day on tape? FG: Yes, I saw the second plane hit live on CNN and watched the buildings eventually collapse. When that happened I though to myself - boy does that ever look like a controlled demolition CP: Did you cry? FG: Not at the time, I was too shocked, amazed and disturbed. As you know men crying is frowned upon in western society. I think that is...

<p>NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- A Marine reservist's decision to skip training for the war in Iraq while seeking conscientious objector status has landed him in a court-martial proceeding that could land him up to a year in jail.</p> <p>But Lance Cpl. Stephen Funk's lawyer was hoping to persuade a military judge at a pretrial hearing on Monday that the soldier is being selectively prosecuted, and that the charge of "shirking important duty" should be dismissed.</p>

Peace activist gains wife, 'expanded' faith Iraq journey proved life-altering experience for Healdsburg man May 23, 2003 By CECILIA M. VEGA THE PRESS DEMOCRAT When peace activist Martin Edwards went to Iraq to protest the war, he left his Healdsburg home as a single man and a Christian Quaker who packed a Bible in his suitcase. Nearly three months later, he returned this week a believer in Islam and married to an Iraqi woman.

American Peace Activist Shot in West BankSaturday April 5, 2003 7:30 PM JERUSALEM (AP) - An American peace activist working as a human shield in the West Bank was seriously wounded on Saturday when Israeli troops allegedly opened fire on him. Brian Avery, 24, from Albuquerque, N.M., heard shots fired and came out of his apartment building to investigate just as an armored personnel carrier rounded a corner, said Tobias Karlsson, a fellow activist. Both Avery and Karlsson are members of the International Solidarity Movement, the Palestinian-backed group from Stockholm, Sweden. ``We had our hands up and we were wearing...

Peace Activist Reeducation With all of this talk of impending war, many of us will encounter "Peace Activists" who will try and convince us that we must refrain from retaliating against the ones who terrorized us all on September 11, 2001, and those who support terror. These activists may be alone or in a gathering.....most of us don't know how to react to them. When you come upon one of these people, or one of their rallies, here are the proper rules of etiquette: 1. Listen politely while this person explains their views. Strike up a conversation if necessary and...

<p>This letter appears in todays Chicago Trib. I will type it word for word.</p> <p>I am the wife of a US Marine. He is leaving. And that's OK. His job was part of the package when I married him.</p> <p>Several of my fellow Marine wives, however, have experienced verbal and physical abuse in the past few weeks from so-called "peace protesters".</p> <p>One woman was told from another car at a stoplight that her husband was a baby killer, and that they hoped he would die.</p>

Ontario man killed seeking to be human shield Remains must clear UN sanctions against Iraq Stewart Bell, with files from Elaine O'Connor, Ottawa Citizen National Post, with files from Ottawa Citizen Wednesday, January 08, 2003 ADVERTISEMENT A Canadian man killed when his truck rolled on an Iraqi highway had gone to the country to act as a human shield in the event of war against Saddam Hussein, the peace group that sent him there said yesterday. George Weber, 73, was one of three Canadian and 14 U.S. peace activists who travelled to Baghdad on Boxing Day in an attempt to...

Texas peace activist hurt in car accident in Iraq 01/08/2003 By DAVID McLEMORE / The Dallas Morning News A longtime Texas peace activist remained hospitalized in Baghdad after a one-car accident in southern Iraq that killed another member of a Christian ecumenical peace delegation. San Antonio businessman Charlie Jackson, founder of Austin-based Texans for Peace, was traveling with a 17-member Christian Peacekeeper Teams delegation to Iraq when the car in which he was riding crashed Monday after a tire blew out near Basra. Fellow delegate George Weber, 73, of Chesley, Ontario, Canada, died in the one-car accident. Another member,...

Countdown to December 8, 1968 Print Friendly Format E-Mail this to a Friend By Bill Harrison Published 12/6/2002 12:02:00 AM As the world awaits Sunday's deadline for Iraq to issue a declaration on its Weapons of Mass Destruction programs, certain media accounts would have it appear that a growing antiwar movement has hit Main Street, USA. The headline at the top of the December 2 Washington Post declaimed, "Antiwar Effort Gains Momentum." At first glance one might think the accompanying story would discover some hitherto hidden antiwar sentiment in Red State Bush country. Think again. The piece centers on a...

BALTIMORE -- Philip Berrigan, the former priest whose fight against the Vietnam War and nuclear weapons helped ignite a generation of anti-war dissent, has died of cancer. He was 79. Berrigan's family said he was diagnosed with cancer two months ago and decided to stop chemotherapy last month. He died Friday night at Jonah House, the communal residence for pacifists that he founded. His brother, the Rev. Daniel Berrigan, officiated over last rites ceremonies Nov. 30, attended by friends and peace activists, family members said. Berrigan led the "Catonsville 9," a group that staged one of the most dramatic protests...

There is scarcely a calamity, an injustice, or an act of outright barbarism occurring anywhere on earth, that Leftists cannot somehow trace to the doorstep of the United States. In their view, all attacks against our country are understandable, if not laudable, retaliatory strikes against an aggressive, arrogant nation that has too often tried to bully the rest of the world. Conversely, any American response – be it with military or law-enforcement measures – is seen as a form of aggression that will only provoke further anti-Americanism and thereby perpetuate "the cycle of violence." A leading proponent of this view...

  Deported! Kathy Kern, The Electronic Intifada, 5 November 2002 Kathy Kern. (CPT) "I did not kill that Dutchman on the moor!" I read on the wooden slab of the bunk above me in my prison cell. The author had written an address in Essex, England below it. A woman from Ghana had written in broken English that it was better to be dead than African in Israel. Unlike my cellmates from Malawi and Russia, facing deportation -- probably for overstaying a visa and prostitution respectively -- I was being deported for working with a human rights organization. That afternoon,...

ST. LOUIS (AP) - Cinda Latimer doesn’t want Iraq to remember Missouri for its smart bombs and cruise missiles. So she and 35 other peace activists, including Columbians Steve Jacobs and Jamie Walters, risked arrest yesterday to block a shipment of weapons from the St. Charles Boeing missile plant for deployment in Iraq, they said. Boeing, working three shifts a day, assembles kits that guide "smart bombs" to their target. Boeing spokesman Bob Algarotti said none was shipped yesterday. Latimer, a pixyish 21-year-old Webster University student, says she has the support of her dad, a retired Boeing employee. In Kansas...

Peace activist bucks U.S., heads to Iraq He opposes attack, plans to report on suffering of citizens 09/22/2002 Associated Press CHICAGO - At age 25, Nathan Mauger has seen much of the world and been kicked out of some of it. He was banned this year from Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip for delivering food and medical supplies to Palestinians who'd occupied the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem. Now the young peace activist from Spokane, Wash., is off to Iraq. Despite strong disapproval from the U.S. government, Mr. Mauger and six other members of an...

Following in the footsteps of Steve Jacobs and Jeff Stack, another local peace activist will go to Iraq this spring, delivering medicine to Iraqis. "You don’t bear the fruit, but you plant the seed," said Chrissy Kirchhoefer, a 24-year-old St. Louis native who has been working for the St. Francis House since her graduation from the University of Missouri-Columbia in 2000. With another two Americans, Kirchhoefer will travel to Iraq in the 43rd delegation by Voices in the Wilderness, a Chicago-based group that has been working to end sanctions against Iraq. Kirchhoefer will first arrive in Amman, Jordan, meet four...

American, Activist Escape Kidnapping American Educator and Peace Activist Narrowly Escaped Kidnapping The Associated Press BOGOTA, Colombia April 24 — American college professor and peace activist Bernard Lafayette came to Colombia hoping to meet with Colombian rebels. He got his wish and almost wound up being kidnapped by them. Lafayette, along with a state governor and several Colombian priests, was leading a march of almost 1,000 peace activists to an embattled mountain village when they were stopped Sunday by rebels of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC.The rebels led the march leaders into the hills, saying the local...

In a basement corner of his home-brew radio station, where a computer keyboard sits next to a copy of The Catholic Worker, Vincent Scotti Eirene fishes around and produces a sentimental keepsake of the new age: the modem he was using the night he met his wife online. "We met in an Internet vegetarian discussion group," he explains. Rebecca is upstairs, nursing their second child. The modem is obsolete, but the marriage seems to be enjoying a certain timelessness. The basement, a dank place dug a century ago, is headquarters of Blast Furnace Radio, an Internet station that carries rock...

<p>NEW YORK (AP) --  The parents of an American activist who visited a besieged Yasser Arafat in his West Bank headquarters have fled their Brooklyn home after receiving death threats, another son said Wednesday.</p> <p>Adam Shapiro, 30, a member of a group in solidarity with Palestinians, has been denounced by some who compare him to John Walker Lindh, the American Taliban.</p>

Forgive this "vanity" post. I have seen pictures of peace activists with Arafat in his office. I have heard about them confronting Israeli soldiers, but I have not heard one word about them going to coffee shops, hotels, and stores and, other places that suicide bombers target in Israel, to "stop" the "cycle of violence." Could someone tell me, are they cowards? Or do they know that the Israelis do everything possible to avoid innocent bloodshed, while the Arafat terrorists seek it out. Do these peace activists realize that they are supporting the very people who envy what bin Laden's...