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Protesters scale wall at Yongsan
Members of an outlawed protest group scaled a wall Thursday, leaping onto the U.S. military’s headquarters in Korea, Army officials said. All 14 resisted but were arrested using plastic and regular handcuffs, said Lt. Col. Steve Boylan, 8th Army public affairs officer. No injuries were reported and the base was not damaged. The group was turned over to Korean National Police officers after about 30 minutes, Boylan said. “We were not sure where they were trying to go,” Boylan said. “We support the right to protest and freedom of speech, but we do not condone one illegally entering the facility.”
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French anti-mine group takes effort to Baghdad
The first pyramid of Shoes Against Landmines came to Iraq’s capital city Friday, displayed in a run-down park in the middle of a Baghdad traffic circle. Handicap International, a nonprofit organization trying to stop the use of land mines, erected the pyramid as a humanitarian symbol. But for the half-dozen homeless Iraqi children nearby, it represented an opportunity to clad their bare feet with new shoes. They went away barefooted.
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Weapons sweep in Baghdad market produces little
This was a mission in which the chaplain went along — just in case. Early on Thursday, roughly 250 soldiers of the 1st Armored Division raided one of the busiest downtown marketplaces in their first Operation Market Sweep, searching street vendors for weapons and drugs and trying to give order to the chaotic open-air bazaar. “With an operation this large, and a chance of possible casualties, a chaplain always comes along,” said Maj. Bryan Walker, chaplain to the 1st Brigade of the 1st AD.
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Michael Abrams / Stars and Stripes
A pyramid of shoes, set up in a Baghdad square, symbolizes the suffering caused by land mines. Handicap International, a French anti-landmine group, held a mine awareness presentation/protest on the square Friday morning. |
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