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SAS ordered into Saudi Arabia to shield embassy By Michael Smith, Defence Correspondent (Filed: 23/06/2004) A 25-man SAS team has been sent to Saudi Arabia to bolster security at the British embassy and plan a possible mass evacuation of foreigners, defence sources said last night. The squad is backed by many more special forces troopers in neighbouring Qatar. This force would be summoned if the 20,000 British citizens in Saudi had to be withdrawn in a hurry. The members of the SAS team are counter-revolutionary warfare specialists and were deployed last week. The larger SAS force has been given diplomatic...

After the bombs stopped falling, Faith Fippinger ventured out into Baghdad. At a hospital, she found a man weeping beside his dying wife. Their six children had been killed in the attack, too, Fippinger said. When the man asked Fippinger where she was from, she told him the truth — the United States, which was dropping the bombs pounding the city. Not denying her citizenship was something she had sworn to do during her time in Iraq, Fippinger said. She wanted the Iraqis to know there were Americans who did not approve of the war on Iraq. "I would say...

<p>CANBERRA, Australia (December 3, 8:34 p.m. AST) - Australia has agreed to participate in a U.S. program to build a defensive missile shield, the government announced Thursday. "We believe that taking part in the U.S. program will serve our strategic interest, help us defend Australia and allow us to make an important contribution to global and regional security," Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said in a statement.</p>

Doctors will apply to the High Court to turn off the life-support of a London student who has been in a coma since an Israeli soldier shot him. Tom Hurndall, 22, has been in a permanent vegetative state for more than six months after being shot in the head while taking pictures with a human shield group in the West Bank. His family, from north London, have been told there is no hope of him recovering. Anguish: Tom's parents Anthony and Jocelyn Other stories: Bosnich held over 'attack' No full Northern line 'until March' Tory plotters choose Howard Courtney Love...

RAMALLAH, West Bank, October 5 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) – Fearing Israel might exploit Haifa bombing to "remove" Palestinian President Yasser Arafat, thirty Israeli and foreign pacifists formed a human shield abound the Ramallah headquarters of the veteran Palestinian leader."We came here because we realized the suicide bombing in Haifa with its many casualties would provide an ideal pretext for (Israeli Prime Minister) Ariel Sharon to do what he wants to do for a long time -- to kill Arafat," former Knesset member Uri Avnery, who arrived with seven members of the Israeli pacifist group Gush Shalom (Peace Bloc),...

Hours after North Korea reportedly threatened to test a nuclear bomb, the Japanese Defense Ministry asked Parliament to spend $1 billion a year through 2007 to build an American-designed missile shield to defend the main cities of the Japanese archipelago. Under the plan, elaborated and accelerated in recent weeks, Japan would spend $1.2 billion next year, nearly 10 times the amount spent on missile defense over the last five years. "Given recent behavior, we cannot discount the possibility that North Korea's nuclear weapons program is already quite advanced," the Defense Ministry wrote in a White Paper prepared before reports Thursday...

Missile shield to protect Japanese By Anton La Guardia, Diplomatic Editor (Filed: 30/08/2003) Japan's armed forces yesterday asked for a large budget increase to build an anti-missile shield to protect the country from the growing threat posed by North Korea. The announcement from Japan's Defence Agency came on the day that six-country negotiations on Pyongyang's nuclear programme ended in acrimony in Beijing. Japan, already worried by a North Korean missile test in 1998, has become alarmed by Pyongyang's moves in recent months to accelerate the development of nuclear weapons. The Japanese armed forces' request for £760 million to buy missile...

`I Saw the Suffering' By Lynn Waddell, Newsweek Web Exclusive Faith Fippinger, a 62-year-old retired teacher of the blind, was one of more than 200 international human shields who hunkered down in Iraq early this year in hopes of discouraging a U.S. attack. FOR FIPPINGER, it was the latest in a long series of global-idealist adventures. She's lived in Alaska with Eskimos, with the Aborigines in Australia and taught in Fiji and Japan. But it may be the first time her travels land her in jail. While more than half the human shields left Iraq before the war started, Fippinger...

Rev. Ken Joseph has spent his time helping the Christians of Iraq after its liberation by “The Coalition of the Willing.” He is currently touring the U.S. and is discussing the situation of the Christian Assyrians and the dangers posed to them by the Islamic fundamentalists. His next stop is Turlock, California as following: Thursday – June 12, 2003 7:00 PM Assyrian American Civic Club of Turlock 2618 North Golden State Blvd. Turlock, CA Free Admission Presentation will be in English If you are local, your participation in this event will encourage Rev. Joseph to continue his mission of love...

Human shield from Eastern Assyrian Church who admitted he was totally wrong is on the Prager show. LINK TO KRLA WEBSITE FOR INTERNET FEED

Human shield quandary 3. april 2003 Justice Minister Lene Espersen has been asked to investigate whether 57-year-old Dane Helene Dreyer, who recently departed for Baghdad to act as a human shield against allied bombardments, has violated the Danish criminal code paragraph by aiding and abetting the enemy in a time of war. The chairman of the right-wing Danish People's Party youth organisation, Kenneth Kristensen, together with party deputy chairman Peter Skaarup, believes the question is worth asking. Kristensen said that individuals who serve as human shields for Saddam Hussein's regime are encompassed under paragraph 102 of the Danish criminal code....

Lets Assist the Human Shields with travel to IRAQ!!! Pick a place you would want them to go and stand and we will attempt to send them there! I can think of a few good places I would want them to go and stand. Please donate big bucks so we can try to place a few of them helping to shield the Iraq navy. Reality: Do not forget your local Reservist Relief Fund. This fund is to help support the families of the Reservists that were called to duty for this war against terror and fear. For more information contact...

Dear Mr. Carter: Let me begin with a belated congratulations on your being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. As you noted in your book, Negotiation: The Alternative to Hostility, it’s important to understand that peace is impossible without justice. And justice is a two-way street, which means that the “war on terrorism” should not be about just us. A study of the Just War Tradition reveals that, though the criteria for it varies slightly among scholars, there are seven basic requirements that must be met in order for a war to be considered just. A just war must: 1) have...

Now Winnie wants to be a human shield in Iraq February 19 2003 at 05:21AM African National Congress MP Winnie Madikizela-Mandela wants to travel to Iraq as a human shield, and wants other women to join her. This is according to a statement on Monday, in which the ANC Women's League president criticised the Democratic Alliance for its comments on the state-of-the-nation address during a debate in parliament. "The DA, and elements within the ANC, will however be delighted to know that she is seriously considering a suggestion that she travel to Iraq as a human shield against American attacks,"...

Human shields warned over Iraq 14feb03 AUSTRALIANS planning to become human shields in Iraq were foolish and might not be able to be evacuated if war broke out, a senior foreign affairs official has said. The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade warned its ability to help any Australian civilian wanting to leave Iraq during military conflict was very limited. "These people are, frankly, quite foolish for putting themselves in this position," Rod Smith, assistant secretary of DFAT's consular branch, said in response to a question from Labor's John Faulkner at a senate estimates committee. "If there was an...

   GEORGE WEBER, photo courtesy of: Christian Peacemaker Teams Canadian peace worker dies in accident in Iraq Ian Harrison, CTV.ca NewsA Canadian Christian peace advocate was killed Monday in a road accident in Iraq. George Weber, 73, died when the vehicle he was riding in blew a tire and rolled over.The accident occurred near the port city of Basra in southern Iraq.Weber, of Chesley, Ont., was in Iraq with a group called Christian Peacemaker Teams, a Chicago-based organization with offices in Toronto and other countries.He is the first member of the organization to lose his life in an overseas...

Missile defense came out of the lab and into the field yesterday, with President Bush's announcement that the U.S. will deploy a limited system to defend the U.S. and its allies against missile attack by 2004. Somewhere the Gipper is smiling.There's nothing easy or simple about the task ahead, and Mr. Bush stressed that the first stage will be "modest." Yet even the initial capabilities he outlined can only be deemed spectacular when compared with where the U.S. stood barely a year ago, much less where it stood when Ronald Reagan laid out his defense vision in his famous 1983...

An effective system of missile defence should be in place in the United States within five years, the head of the agency running the program said on Tuesday. Lt-Gen Ronald Kadish, chief of the American Missile Defense Agency, said the United States had shown that the technology behind its missile shield plans would work. "We no longer need to experiment, to demonstrate or to prevaricate. We need to get on with this, and I am confident that we will," he said in a speech at the Royal United Services Institute in London. "I will make a prediction that some time...

Do you remember when Ottawa and Europe were warning of the parade of horribles that would follow if the United States scuttled the obsolete 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty? At the time, back in pre-9/11 days, missile opponents pointed to various heavyweights -- Russia, China, Japan -- that were anxious about the U.S. plan. The belief was that an ambitious anti-missile scheme would jump-start a new arms race, and thus destabilize the planet. But when the Americans did withdraw from the ABM, nothing happened. Russian President Vladimir Putin, who'd been looking for a way to trim his military budget, was more...

ANALYSIS - Saddam sees Palestinians as key shield against U.S.   By Nadim Ladki AMMAN, April 23 (Reuters) - For Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, supporting Palestinians with cash and oil embargoes might not be just a matter of solidarity but of the survival of his regime, Arab diplomats and analysts said on Tuesday. They say raging Israeli-Palestinian violence in recent weeks has shifted attention from the U.S.-led war on terrorism and delayed any plans for American military action to topple Saddam. "Iraq feels that the Palestinians are its first line of defence," an Arab diplomat said. "If they succumb to Israel and the United States and end the...