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 Thursday March 06, 2003 15:45 by wow
 Wow. Indymedia in Baghdad! http://www.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=242163&group=webcast Three persons from IMC Norway are now inside Baghdad as “human shields” and to report back to IMC what is going on. Their version of what is happening is - not surprising – different from the “official story” in the corporate media. Instead of “threats” and “coercion”, they say they got to choose between two alternatives: either defend important infrastructure for the civilians or leave the country. Instead of “escaping in the night” the peace activists that left did it without panic. Many of them were supposed to go back home anyway (job, family etc). The people that remain, among them five Norwegians, do so of their own free will. It is also of their own free will they consent in being stationed in a waterplant (and they can leave whenever they want). Although regarded as a military target by the US, this waterplant (and other important infrastructure) is essential for the civilian population. If Bush & Co are serious about not targeting civilians, plants like these cannot be bombed, not even by “accident”. The “human shields” in Baghdad have reacted on the distorted presentation of facts in corporate media. In Baghdad the “shields” have staged a protest outside the international press center with banners saying “Stop The Lies”. Beneath there is also a “shield” response to a corporate article. |
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Jump To Comment: 1Human shields are just idiots. They won't stop the Americans or the British bombing at all and they will lose their lives for nothing.