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Body blow as human shields ordered out - theage.com.au
Topic: Current Events 4:48 pm EST, Mar  7, 2003

Body blow as human shields ordered out

March 8 2003
By Paul McGeough
Baghdad

The international "human shield" is on the brink of disintegration after some of its leaders - including Australian Gordon Sloan - said they had been ordered to leave Iraq.

Their numbers had been thinning as war becomes imminent, but on Thursday night came predictions that as many as half the 120 remaining "shields" would quit in the wake of a rowdy meeting with a senior Iraqi figure who they claimed had compromised the autonomy of their volunteer organisation.

Body blow as human shields ordered out - theage.com.au



 
 
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