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Title: "Let's Send Human Shields of Anti-War and Peace to North Korea: Proposal to Peace Activists and NGOs of South Korea, The U.S. and Japan" By Kim Seung-kuk Chairperson of the Solidarity of Korea Reunification Peace Committee British Prime Minister Tony Blair has publicly said that North Korea will be the next target for the U.S. military attack. North Korea is on the top of the countries targeted in the "war program" pushed by the United States with the help of Britain and Japan. That is why the establishment of peace and reunification has been delayed in the Korean...

From the "Human Shields" website today (16 April 2003):( Human Shield') "Uzma Bashir Threatened by U.S. Marines in Baghdad Uzma Bashir, a Human Shield volunteer in Baghdad, confronted imperial troops as they entered Baghdad last week. She wanted to know, from U.S. Marines, what it felt like to murder Iraqi children. Uzma has subsequently been physically threatened by U.S. Marines and we have received thinly veiled threats via our website from people saying they belong to the U.S. military:" (goes on to list 'threats')

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Foreigners acting as "human shields" in Baghdad said on Friday they sense success in their mission to preserve vital facilities in the Iraqi capital. The Western volunteers, who hope the war in Iraq is now entering its final stages, believe their presence at water and power plants around Baghdad since before the war began has prevented U.S. and British planes bombing the facilities. "The plants we are staying at have not been bombed so far," Ingrid Termert, a retired teacher from Sweden, told Reuters in the Iraqi capital. "Water and power in Basra have been hit in...

<p>BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Iraq's information minister accused U.S. forces Tuesday of "indiscriminately" killing their own citizens in a bus attack and killing nine Iraqi children in a central neighborhood of Babylon.</p> <p>"Yesterday, an American warplane attacked two buses on the highway between Baghdad and Ahman," Mohammed Saeed al Sahaf told reporters.</p>

"Human Shields Flee Baghdad" Tuesday 1 April 2003, 8:05 AM Australian human shield Donna Mulhearn has fled Baghdad for Amman before what is expected to be a bloody battle for the capital. The 34-year-old said she and five other people arrived in Jordan on Sunday night, after paying a driver the equivalent of $A1,250 to drive them out of Iraq. She said the trip would normally cost less than $A16.71 on a bus. Ms Mulhearn said she met Australian SAS soldiers about 200km west of Baghdad at a roadblock, describing them as professional. "I was actually quite relieved when I...

A 34-year-old West Australian woman acting as a human shield in Baghdad says she will stay in the Iraqi capital even if bombs start dropping. Michelle Pule, from Perth, said she arrived in Iraq last week and would stay because she wanted to help the thousands of innocent Iraqis who would perish in any war. "I'm planning on staying and I think I will try and help in whatever way I can and whatever happens, happens," Ms Pule told ABC Radio. She has basic medical training but cannot speak Arabic. She said two other human shields left Iraq last week,...

LONDON (Reuters) - Anti-war activists have delivered a letter to Prime Minister Tony Blair, urging him to avoid in the event of war bombing targets in Iraq where human shields are deployed. The Human Shields Action group, which has about 100 international volunteers deployed in Iraq in a bid to deter military strikes, said on Tuesday it had asked Blair to avoid attacking sites where shields were based. "The...sentiment which demands that, whatever our opinion about military actions, we should back our forces should also be applied to the human shields," Richard Scrase, director of the London-based Human Shields Action,...

<p>AMMAN, Jordan — Five volunteers who went to Iraq to serve as "human shields," including two Americans, were forced out of the country because they were critical of the government's choice of sites to protect, the head of the group said Wednesday.</p>

AMMAN, Jordan March 12 — Five volunteers who went to Iraq to serve as "human shields," including two Americans, were forced out of the country because they were critical of the government's choice of sites to protect, the head of the group said Wednesday.They had chosen locations "essential to the civilian population," such as food storage warehouses and water and electricity facilities, said Ken O'Keefe, of Haleiwa, Hawaii.But the Iraqi government wanted the shields in more sensitive locations, he said. He did not elaborate, but some earlier activists have also left Iraq, reportedly after being told they would be posted...

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Two red double decker buses and a white London taxi that ferried anti-war activists to Baghdad to serve as "human shields" are stranded in Beirut with their owner short of the $5,500 it costs to ship them home. The buses and taxi, dusty after a six-week overland journey that began at London's Tower Bridge, were plastered with signs saying "No to a war on Iraq" and "No to war, Yes to peace." "The buses have to be shipped back. It's just not practical to drive them...I am not even really sure how much money I've got, but...

AMMAN (Reuters) - Outraged by the prospect of a U.S. war on Iraq, Ryan Clancy left his music shop in the United States and put himself in harm's way in Baghdad last month to serve as a "human shield" against Iraqi civilian casualties. But, like others, he has found idealism at odds with the hard-nosed reality of Iraqi officialdom. Last month Clancy was among about 50 Western anti-war activists who rode on red double-decker buses to Baghdad after an overland trip that started at London's Tower Bridge. They hoped to avert a U.S.-led war by putting a human face on...

Forty South Africans are not afraid to face the direct line of a US-led coalition assault on Iraq, and are preparing to become human shields as they "go to war". The 40 are among the thousands worldwide who are going to Baghdad or who are already there. Their mission: to build international support for mediation, and not a war. Already shields from Britain, Turkey and Russia have gathered in Iraq. Many of them will place themselves at schools, orphanages and hospitals. Durban-based Iraq Action committee member Abie Dawjee and senior advocate of the Durban Bar, Reggie Reddy are among the...

'I am ashamed to be leaving you at this time of need, but I'm going out of pure, cold fear," Godfrey Meynell, 68, told the two Iraqi factory workers standing before him. His white hair was, as always, unbrushed; his navy windcheater zipped up to the chin. "This power plant is next to a bridge, surrounded by Republican Guard," he continued. "It's obviously a prime target." The men, who understood this fear too well, returned his handshake and thanked him warmly. As he heaved his rucksack into the taxi, Mr Meynell, a former Colonial Office civil servant, was tearful. He...

<p>BAGHDAD — Squabbling peace activists were recovering from a chaotic overland journey yesterday after limping into Iraq aboard two London buses, a day late for Saturday's worldwide series of anti-war demonstrations.</p> <p>Three double-deckers, all crammed with "human shields," had set out from London on Jan. 25 to reach Baghdad in time for the day of global protests. But only two of them, with 65 activists, made it to the Iraqi capital late on Saturday.</p>