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FEARS were mounting last night for the safety of six British aid workers taken hostage aboard a ship chartered to ferry supplies to Gaza. The captain of their hired ship went berserk in a row over money and fled the Libyan port of Derna with ten campaigners on board. The group were stranded on the Strofades IV ferry after it tore away from its moorings without permission. Witnesses told how one of the "Road To Hope Convoy" campaign vans was hanging out the ship's rear doors. The Greek captain was seen leaping on to a speedboat to another vessel. Last...

BBC’s flotilla film slammed as ‘biased’ By JONNY PAUL 08/20/2010 01:13 Anti-Israel groups outraged at 'racist' documentary; plan protests. LONDON – A BBC documentary screened this week that investigated the Gaza flotilla incident on May 31 is causing a storm of protest – from critics of Israel, who are furious that the program was not as hostile to Israel as they thought it should be. The critics, including an activist from the Free Gaza movement who was aboard the Mavi Marmara, are organizing demonstrations on Sunday outside the BBC’s London headquarters and other BBC offices, and are calling for...

SNIPPET: "The navy will operate under the assumption that groups of provocateurs are aboard any future ships that try to break the Israel-imposed sea blockade on the Gaza Strip, Deputy Commander of the Navy Rear-Admiral Rani Ben-Yehuda told The Jerusalem Post on Monday."

Here is an excerpt from the latest propaganda at HumanShields.org, updating Ken Nichols O'Keefe's expulsion from Turkey when he attempted to enter with a bogus passport - PRESS RELEASE February 8th 2003 Ken Nichols O'Keefe, founding member of the TJP Human Shield Action, has been refused entry into Turkey and is now being detained in Italy. He may be forced to return to the USA. We recognize that Ken may not reach Iraq as a human shield. Ken envisioned a mass migration to Iraq that would stand in the face of US/UK aggression. The global movement that has grown around...