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Human shields ready Original Source Link: (May no longer be active)    http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20030218/wl_nm/iraq_shields_dc_1 http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20030218/wl_nm/iraq_shields_dc_1 World - Reuters 'Human Shields' Ready to Take Up Posts in Iraq Tue Feb 18,11:15 AM ET Add World - Reuters to My Yahoo! By Khaled Yacoub Oweis BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A band of 100 "human shields," who drove to Baghdad from London in double-decker buses and a taxi, said on Tuesday their presence would help keep U.S. guns silent. "There will be no war on Iraq," Peter van Dyke, an organizer of the Human Shields group told Reuters. His group includes professionals, students, housewives and several Americans. They plan to sit near power stations, water plants and other facilities that were hit during the 1991 Gulf War (news - web sites). "These sites are essential for the people of Baghdad to live," said van Dyke, 38, who served in the Royal Navy. The group paid their own way but are guests of the Iraqi government, staying in a hotel across from one of President Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s palaces on the Tigris river. "The British members of the team outnumbered the rest but we picked up a number of Turks on the way and I am not so sure who is the majority now," van Dyke said. Adele Peers, a Liverpool teacher, said the United States must not be allowed to wage war on Iraq just because it had a score to settle with Saddam. "This war is going to destroy international relations," said Peers. "The United States says the Iraqi regime is the problem, but it's going to be bombing civilians." Other peace groups have descended on Baghdad as the United States and Britain amass forces in the Gulf. They plan actions similar to van Dyke's Human Shields to show solidarity with Iraqi civilians, who bore the brunt of the 1991 war. One group, the Iraq Peace Team, includes U.S. veterans from the Vietnam war. They have been hanging banners on bridges and power plants that say a U.S. bombardment of these sites would amount to a war crime. A pacifist group from Spain's Catalonia province arrived on Tuesday, saying there was no support among Catalonians for using Spanish troops or air bases in a war. Loles Olivarn, a spokeswoman for the 18-member group, said its intention was to express solidarity but also "to say to our government that we will have a Spanish presence here and that it will "be responsible for what happens to the Spanish citizens."

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