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Iraq
Five Would-Be ’Human Shields’ Leave Iraq
2003-03-12
Five volunteers who went to Iraq to serve as "human shields," including two Americans, were forced out of the country because they were critical of the government's choice of sites to protect, the head of the group said Wednesday.
The thought of JDAMs raining down in a few days has a sobering effect
They had chosen locations "essential to the civilian population," such as food storage warehouses and water and electricity facilities, said Ken O'Keefe, of Haleiwa, Hawaii. But the Iraqi government wanted the shields in more sensitive locations, he said. He did not elaborate, but some earlier activists have also left Iraq, reportedly after being told they would be posted at potentially strategic targets, such as oil refineries and power plants.
"Oh My God — you mean I may really be a shield in harms way.??!! The brochure said I'd be safe!"
"They removed us from the sites we had chosen because we were critical of the integrity and the autonomy of the Iraqi authorities," said O'Keefe, 33. "I was escorted by Iraqi intelligence officers to the border, because I say what I believe and the Iraqi government wants submissive easy robots."
G'bye, Ken. Don't come back. Say hello to your Mom for us...
The other four deported with O'Keefe were American John Ross, Eva Mern from Slovenia, Gordan Sloan from Australia, and Tolga Temugi from Turkey. "The Iraqi government was acting absolutely very stupid," O'Keefe said, dressed in a long Arabic dishdasha robes while talking to The Associated Press at a small hotel in downtown Amman. "If they had only cooperated and let us do part of what we wanted to do, we could have worked with them also to protect these sites and we would have brought in more people to stay."
O'Keefe, being a nut, was under the impression they were something other than propaganda toys...
"I certainly have no great admiration for Saddam Hussein, I was only going to help the people," he said, blaming the plight of the Iraqis on the previous American governments that supported Saddam.
"And now I'm even more cheesed at him. See if I send him a Christmas card this year!"
Seven more would-be human shields from the Iraq Peace Team, a project of the activist group Voices in the Wilderness is set to leave Amman for Baghdad on Thursday to join other IPT members. "This delegation may be the last IPT team to get into Baghdad prior to full-scale war," said the head of the delegation, Shane Claiborne, 27, from Philadelphia. About 17 Egyptian doctors, pharmacists and lawyers who arrived in Amman on Wednesday will be leaving in few days to Baghdad to serve as human shields, visit hospitals to assess their medicine storage and offer other support.
And attend Sammy's Suicide Training Camp
A group of 14 Jordanian unionists of different professions will also join the mission.
Posted by:JDR

#10  c'mon mojo - if you're gonna quote me at least clean up my typos? lol
Posted by: Frank G   2003-03-12 21:57:35  

#9  "They removed us from the sites we had chosen because we were critical of the integrity and the autonomy of the Iraqi authorities," said O'Keefe, 33. "I was escorted by Iraqi intelligence officers to the border, because I say what I believe and the Iraqi government wants submissive easy robots."

So, you weren't free to say what you wanted in Iraq!
Quelle surprise! They want submissive easy robots?
OMG... NO WAY! GET OUT!

And then he says:

"I certainly have no great admiration for Saddam Hussein, I was only going to help the people," he said, blaming the plight of the Iraqis on the previous American governments that supported Saddam.

So, you don't support him, but you want to be a human shield for his regime...
The same regime that wouldn't let you speak your mind, or camp out in front of an orphanage that you know and Saddam knows will not be targeted by US bombs...
And it's America's fault that Saddam is an evil, psychotic, wanker with no conscience?
Wow...
What powers of deduction you have, Grasshopper!

You know, stupid people shouldn't breed.

Posted by: grilllmaster Celissa   2003-03-12 16:04:13  

#8  "O'Keefe publicly renounced his American citizenship - he lives in the UK, London, if I remember correcly"

Yeah, and maybe they'll even let him back in with his "Citizen of da Woild" passport, hand made using a photocopier and cardboard....
Posted by: mojo   2003-03-12 16:02:22  

#7  ROFL..
It would be nice if he kept ranting.
Nobody else speaks quite like a spurned lover.
Posted by: Dishman   2003-03-12 13:40:07  

#6  "I was escorted by Iraqi intelligence officers to the border, because I say what I believe and the Iraqi government wants submissive easy robots."

You mean like their citizens? The ones we're trying to liberate? They should've hung you on a smokestack with a neon sign flashing "IDIOT" so some F-18 zoomie could put you out of your misery.
Posted by: tu3031   2003-03-12 13:09:56  

#5  "They removed us from the sites we had chosen because we were critical of the integrity and the autonomy of the Iraqi authorities," said O'Keefe, 33. "I was escorted by Iraqi intelligence officers to the border, because I say what I believe and the Iraqi government wants submissive easy robots."

No s**t, Sherlock. I find it hard to believe that this idiot can manage to tie his shoes without strangling himself.
Posted by: Patrick Phillips   2003-03-12 13:00:48  

#4  O' Keefe publicly renounced his American citizenship - he lives in the UK, London, if I remember correcly
Posted by: Frank G   2003-03-12 12:57:16  

#3  O'Keefe should not be arrested as a traitor, he should be sent to the Bronx zoo and put on display.

absolutely. give the monkeys something to point at.
Posted by: g wiz   2003-03-12 12:54:25  

#2  So long, A-holes! What really peeves me about the Human Shills is that their intention of shielding schools and hospitals is an implicit accusation that that is what we will be targeting - that the evil US just can't wait to slaughter civilians. Any shill who is an American citizen and tries to reenter the country should be immediately arrested and thrown in the iron bar hotel.
It's time to make these idiots understand that actions carry consequences.
Posted by: Rex Mundi   2003-03-12 12:38:34  

#1  "such as oil refineries". Those would be the oil refineries Saddam is preparing to blow up himself? Part of the plan becomes clear, Saddams part. The human shields are just monkeys aping human behavior. It is our intellect that seperates us from the primates. Willful refusal to use that intellect is akin to wilfull turning back evolution.

O'Keefe should not be arrested as a traitor, he should be sent to the Bronx zoo and put on display.
Posted by: Yank   2003-03-12 12:33:12  

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