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Irish Peace Activist Present in UN Building during Explosion

category international | anti-war / imperialism | news report author Friday August 22, 2003 21:53author by Ciaron - for Voices Chicago Report this post to the editors

Voices in the Wilderness Update

Michael Bermingham who has been based in Iraq since late last year, and participated in the anti-war movement in Ireland, was present in the UN Building when attacked this week. Voices in the Wilderness Chicago Update.

Note: Michael was a founder member of & worked with CEISI for 4 years before going to Iraq before Christmas last year.

Greetings from Voices-Chicago!

Here are a number of quick updates from Voices Chicago:

Yesterday, an explosion occurred at the UN offices in Baghdad; Voices in the Wilderness
delegate Michael Birmingham was visiting the building at that time. With minor injuries, he was
able to assist in rescuing others. We are grateful that he survived the blast, and we mourn the
deaths of those who did not.

The Call for 20,000 Voices Campaign is off to a strong start. We have well over 6,000
signatures on the petition to Attorney General Ashcroft and the list gets longer each day. We
encourage everyone to go onto our website at www.nonviolence.org/vitw, add your personal
signature and pass it along to others.

Earlier this week, Caoimhe Butterly, our colleague in Baghdad, described current work of the
Iraq Peace Team and how the quality of life for U.S. troops and Iraqi citizens is deteriorating.
Please read the full letter: http://www.nonviolence.org/vitw/pages/newPages/SBbutterly.html
Just this morning, we received an article from Ramzi Kysia, an earnest awakening to the
current situation in Baghdad. Follow this link to read Kysia's piece:
http://www.nonviolence.org/vitw/pages/newPages/SBbuilding_tomorrows_house.html

Also, Wheels of Justice Tour is circuiting the center of the US; the big colorful bus has left
Minneapolis and is heading west. To schedule a speaking event or to find out if the bus is
coming to your town, please visit
http://www.nonviolence.org/vitw/pages/newPages/SBwheelsofjustice.html
You can contact the bus coordinator at 917-567-5048.

Finally, Kathy Kelly, John Farrell (Chicago, IL), Ed Kinane (Vernon, NY) and Cathy Breen (New
York, NY) will soon leave the US for Iraq. They will spend at least 3 weeks speaking with
ordinary people in Iraq and continuing friendships with people we have come to know during
our seven years of Voices delegations to Iraq. They will try to communicate the perspective
of these ordinary Iraqis to the general public in the US and abroad during their delegation and
upon their return. Please follow their journey on our website www.vitw.org.

Please feel free to contact our office if we can assist any of your activities.

Sincerely,
Voices in the Wilderness-Chicago

author by JMcKpublication date Sun Aug 24, 2003 02:14author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Seven men dressed in black and sporting rocket-launchers, hand-grenades and hand guns, just admitted on Lebenese television they did the bombing.

They posed the question why so many US intelligence agents were in a UN building at the time of the explosion ?
Good question.

Perhaps Michael, having been caught, by happenstance , on the ground, so to speak, could posit an answer?

One thing for sure, any group or individual running in and out of a building teaming with US/UK intelligence is at serious risk from a legitimate army of national resistance, fighting a war of liberation against an illegal invader.

But I'm sure whoever is controlling the organisation that has him there has advised him of that.
What exactly is he doing in Iraq?

author by Irish Americanpublication date Mon Aug 25, 2003 06:02author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Have you sunk so low as to celebrate the deaths at the UN and try to brand them to suit your unexplainable anger at the US? Is the real world getting in the way of your rigid views?

God bless Sergio de Mello and the other victims.

author by JMcKpublication date Tue Aug 26, 2003 09:59author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Hundreds if not thousands of starving Baghdaddi cats were blown to bits by US cluster bombs falling on civilian areas during the initial stages of the illegal invasion.

UN cat counters are busy at work with such vital statistic while busily avoing any criticism of the occupying powers who are daily breaking the Geneva Convention. Mmmmmmm!

World bank, IMF, Little Kittens, vital work of the UN! Not to forget the part Ireland has/is playing in all this! God bless all the tentacles of the "just war" invasion. Rest in Peace indeed dude!

 
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