Anti-Bush protesters arrested near UN
Yahoo! News
09/25/07
About a dozen war protesters were arrested Tuesday morning during a peaceful demonstration against President Bush’s speech before the U.N. General Assembly. They were among about 400 protesters opposing the Bush administration’s war in Iraq and its incarceration in Guantanamo Bay of more than 300 men on suspicion of terrorism or links to al-Qaida or the Taliban. Many in the crowd wore orange jumpsuits in solidarity with the Guantanamo detainees. Police took the arrested demonstrators into custody … after they knelt on the sidewalk in an act of civil disobedience at the rally near the United Nations. One of them, 58-year-old Bill Ofenloch, said they were trying to serve an ‘arrest warrant’ on Bush for ‘high crimes against humanity.’ Members of the anti-war group Code Pink performed a bit of street theater where a person wearing a Bush mask was arrested...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070925/ap_on_re_us/bush_protest
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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09/25/07
About a dozen war protesters were arrested Tuesday morning during a peaceful demonstration against President Bush’s speech before the U.N. General Assembly. They were among about 400 protesters opposing the Bush administration’s war in Iraq and its incarceration in Guantanamo Bay of more than 300 men on suspicion of terrorism or links to al-Qaida or the Taliban. Many in the crowd wore orange jumpsuits in solidarity with the Guantanamo detainees. Police took the arrested demonstrators into custody … after they knelt on the sidewalk in an act of civil disobedience at the rally near the United Nations. One of them, 58-year-old Bill Ofenloch, said they were trying to serve an ‘arrest warrant’ on Bush for ‘high crimes against humanity.’ Members of the anti-war group Code Pink performed a bit of street theater where a person wearing a Bush mask was arrested...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070925/ap_on_re_us/bush_protest
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=CodePink
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Guantanamo
rudkla - 26. Sep, 14:43
