Inside the deluded world of the 'human shields'

The Sunday Telegraph ^ | March 2, 2003 | Charlotte Edwards

[Dog]

Ping!

[ewing]

They are just figuring out now that the 20 Iraqi guards guarding the peaceful 'human shields' are sinister?

[JavaTheHutt]

And so they left - except for O'Keefe and his significant mother, I suppose. After the war, we'll probably have to pay reparations for those anachronisms..

O'keefe was arrested in Turkey for traveling on a forged passport. He never even made it into Iraq, at least that was the last I heard.

[Hildy]

a £500 donation from a well-wisher in Istanbul was squandered on boxes of Prozac in a misguided attempt to cheer up the war-weary Iraqi civilians.

This is like a SNL skit!

[stands2reason]

A Hold muh Granola alert...

Later, a £500 donation from a well-wisher in Istanbul was squandered on boxes of Prozac in a misguided attempt to cheer up the war-weary Iraqi civilians.

Conspiracy theories spread like a contagion through the ranks. Whenever a puncture occurred it would be blamed on the CIA. "It's sabotage," Peter Van Dyke, 36, had whispered to a bemused mechanic as he removed a thick screw from a flat tyre in a garage outside Naples.

[JeepInMazar]

Yes, it was this letter that was published.

[Steel Wolf]

The eccentric, eclectic group, none of whom fitted the "peacenik" stereotype, may have been drawn from all ages, backgrounds and experience, but they all shared one trait: naivety.

If that doesn't say it all, I don't know what does.

[GnL]

Either it's April Fools Day or this article is from the Onion. No way anything real could be that funny!

[Jemian]

"Sue, I can let you have some of my prunes. If it would help."

ROTFLOL!!!

[rface]

wow! a year and a half ago. i am in your neck of the woods tonight but will bead back to Missouri tomorrow. I am in Springfield Virginia.

[Savage Beast]

"they all shared one trait: naivety"

I sounds a lot more like: stupidity.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

O'Keefe was arrrested and deported from Turkey for trying to get in under some BS passport, the news only reported that he finally did get into Iraq. I don't think they reported his alternate method after he left Turkey.

[AnnaZ]

I live for these updates. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

[dixiechick2000]

*snort* bump!

[BartMan1]

Ping...

BTW, does naivety = naivete ??

Or is that the anglicized version ???

[Budge]

One afternoon, Sue Darling posted an angry message on the Andalus hotel noticeboard: "Can whoever stole my bag of nuts, sultanas and dried bananas, please return them. They are my emergency rations". Godfrey scrawled below: "Sue, I can let you have some of my prunes. If it would help."

Sounds like Godfrey has a smidgin of a sense of humor.

[randita]

Any news about Miss Germany? Was she successful in talking some sense into Saddam? LOL

[fortcollins]

No guts, no glory

[xJones]

The terms of "Keefe's mum should be interesting. Who gets the 1968 VW van, the Y2K supplies, and who can tell if she's really dead since she always looks like that. It's amazing her son can move around without the life support equipment trailing him.

For some odd reason, O'Keefe & mumsey remind me of the movie, "It's a mad, mad, mad, mad world", where poor Milton Berle is being nagged constantly by his backseat driver, Ethel Merman.

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[xJones]

Whoops, that should be in #39: "The terms of O'Keefe's mother's will..."