Witnesses at anti-war tribunal slam US actions in Iraq

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/iraqturkeytribunal;_ylt=Am1WeZXqTSaDBKES9ivvL2.s0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3ODdxdHBhBHNlYwM5NjQ-

Witnesses at anti-war tribunal slam US actions in Iraq

Sat Jun 25, 2:54 PM ET

ISTANBUL (AFP) - The World Tribunal on
Iraq (WTI), an anti-war grouping of non-governmental organisations (NGOs), intellectuals and writers, heard witnesses condemn the United States for rights abuses and the worsening plight of Iraqi women.

A former US Air Force pilot called on US troops in Iraq to "resist" the orders of their superior officers in an "illegal war".

"Today Iraq has been turned into a vast prison," lawyer Amal Sawadi told the hearing.

"They come to people's houses in the middle of the night, when everyone is asleep, blow in the door. They point their weapons in people's faces ... they search women in front of their families, they smash everything in the house.".......

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1. "The military is part of the problem, not of the solution."--right on.

......."The military is part of the problem, not of the solution."

"Some people accuse us of being against the troops or antipatriotic but we are the troops. How can I be antipatriotic by asking our soldiers to come back home alive?"

About 200 non-governmental organziations -- including the environmentalist group Greenpeace, the anti-globalisation ATTAC and Vietnam Veterans Against the War -- as well as a number of prominent intellectuals such as US linguist Noam Chomsky and Egyptian sociologist Samir Amin are involved in the WTI.

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2. Truth out has posted Arundhati Roy's opening

statements. It is a must read.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/062505Y.shtml



The assault on Iraq is an assault on all of us: on our dignity, our intelligence, and our future.

We recognize that the judgment of the World Tribunal on Iraq is not binding in international law. However, our ambitions far surpass that. The World Tribunal on Iraq places its faith in the consciences of millions of people across the world who do not wish to stand by and watch while the people of Iraq are being slaughtered, subjugated, and humiliated.

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