-----Original Message----- From: Treena Lenthall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Saturday, 14 November 1998 21:39 Subject: Stop Bombardments GULF WAR PRISONER DENOUNCES FURTHER BOMBARDMENT OF IRAQ "Further bombardment of Iraq would be an act of wholesale terror", said Ausralian peace activist Ciaron O'Reilly. O'Reilly served 13 months in various U.S. prisons for his nonviolent disarmament of a B-52 Bomber on the eve of the 1991 Gulf War. He is presently awaiting trial in Darwin for disabling uranium mining equipment this year at the Jabiluka site. O'Reilly continued, "World Health Organisation estimates between 700,000 and 1 million Iraqi children have died due to U.S. bombardment, the plagues they have unleashed and the continued sanctions that have undermined any health care response. If the world is looking for a weapon of mass destruction in Iraq, the most effective killer would be the sanctions that we are sustaining. Topping up these sanctions with "drive-by" cruise missile attacks from the U.S. Navy and Air Force entrenches Saddam and punishes innocent Iraqis. This seven year war against ordinary Iraqis must be brought to a halt. The issue of weapons inspections must be broadened to the whole region and seperated from the issue of sanctions. Australia should halt all exports of uranium to the United States until the effects of the 14,000 shells of Depleted Uranium fired by U.S. forces in the Gulf War are fully investigated." Contact Ciaron O'Reilly (08) 8948 2010 Circulate to any alternative media you think might run this. Jabiluka Ploughshares http://www.freespeech.org/ploughshares PO Box 3818 Darwin NT 0801
