STOP NATO: �NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --------------------------- ListBot Sponsor -------------------------- Get a low APR NextCard Visa in 30 seconds! 1. Fill in the brief application 2. Receive approval decision within 30 seconds 3. Get rates as low as 2.99% Intro or 9.99% Ongoing APR and no annual fee! Apply NOW! http://www.bcentral.com/listbot/NextCard ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >The following news was just posted: 6/22/01/, 1400 hrs. PDT. > >Lewis Green, FOR National Organizing Coordinator >Campaign of Conscience for the Iraqi People >3403 166th Place SW >Lynnwood, WA 98037 >425-743-5914 or [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Saturday June 23 4:41 PM ET > >Missile Fragments Collected in Iraq >By WAIEL FALEH, Associated Press Writer > >BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Six American and British activists opposed to U.N. >sanctions against Iraq said Saturday they had collected fragments of a >missile that reportedly killed 23 Iraqis to determine whether it was fired >by allied warplanes, as alleged by Iraq. > >The United States had denied dropping bombs Tuesday on a soccer field in >Tall Afar, 275 miles northwest of Baghdad. Washington said if there were >deaths in the attack, they were likely caused by Iraq's own misdirected >ground fire. > >``We saw a soccer field with a small crater and there were missile >fragments, clothes and children's sandals,'' said Bilal Moose Patel, a >31-year-old British member of the Chicago-based Voices in the Wilderness >pressure group. > >``The nearest large facility was a grain elevator, which is at least one >half to three-quarters of a mile away,'' he said. > >American activist Philip Steger, from St. Paul, Minn., said he planned to >ask the Pentagon to check on the serial numbers on the fragments. > >``Since we now have only initial observation, we are not prepared to draw >any conclusions,'' he told reporters. > >Since arriving in Baghdad on June 14, the three Britons and three Americans >have visited Basra, 340 miles south of Baghdad, and the province of Mosul, >where the attack allegedly occurred. > >The activists said they want to voice their support for Iraqis suffering >under 11 years of U.N. sanctions, imposed after Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990. > >Allied aircraft patrol the skies over southern and northern Iraq, zones >established after the 1991 Gulf War to protect Shiite Muslim rebels in the >south and Kurds in the north from Saddam Hussein's forces. Iraq does not >recognize the no-fly zones and has challenged allied aircraft since December >1998. ______________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
