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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/manchester/10199808.stm

“Gaza aid ship protesters try to storm BBC Manchester”
Page last updated at 20:07 GMT, Monday, 31 May 2010 21:07 UK

SNIPPET: “Protesters demonstrating against the Israeli attack on a Gaza-bound aid ship have attempted to storm the BBC in Manchester.

More than 800 people marched through the city centre and down Oxford Road, where the crowd surged at the BBC’s entrance, smashing its front doors.”

SNIPPET: “One man climbed to the top of the building to plant a Palestinian flag and there were at least three arrests.”

SNIPPET: “Protesters from the Palestinian Solidarity Campaign, who organised the demonstration, chanted slogans including: “BBC tell the truth.”

Protesters smashed glass doors and there were at least three arrests
The demonstration followed the confirmed killings of nine humanitarian aid workers by Israeli soldiers, who stormed their ship as it approached Gaza.

Talat Ali, 40, organizer from the Palestine Solidarity Campaign said: “This is a peaceful demonstration against the attack that has taken place on the Gaza flotilla.”


102 posted on 06/01/2010 1:46:34 AM PDT by Cindy
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To: Cindy

Great Britain shouldn’t have let the riot monkeys into their country.


103 posted on 06/01/2010 2:11:47 AM PDT by dr_who
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