http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20041230/wl_mideast_afp/iraqusmilitary&cid=1514&ncid=1473AMMAN (AFP) - Relatives of US servicemen killed in Iraq (news - web sites) and members of anti-war groups announced plans to hold a candlelit vigil on the Jordan-Iraq border to protest US involvement.
Members of Families for Peace, Code Pink and Global Exchange told a news conference in Amman that they had sent 600,000 dollars' worth of humanitarian aid to residents of the Iraqi town of Fallujah displaced by last month's massive US-led assault.
"I don't know of any other case in history in which the parents of fallen soldiers collected medicine ... for the families of the 'other side'," said Medea Benjamin, the founding director of Global Exchange, a human rights group.
"It is a reflection of a growing movement in the United States ... opposed to the unjust nature of this war," she said.
"This is the positive face of the American people which we would like to show ... so that we are not looked at with animosity but with love. Our hearts go out to the people of Fallujah and to all the Iraqi people," she said.
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