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To: MSI who wrote (19168)	1/17/2003 10:36:39 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 93284

Voices in the Wilderness said war on Iraq would be illegal, immoral and counter productive. guardian.co.uk World Protesters Gather on Iraq Conflict Saturday January 18, 2003 2:20 AM TOKYO (AP) - Protesters turned out Friday in Bahrain and the Gaza Strip to rally against a possible war against Iraq, while demonstrators planned to take to the streets in several European cities. Protests on Saturday in Brussels and the German cities of Hamburg and Cologne were to coincide with similar demonstrations across the United States. German demonstrators also planned to gather in front of the European headquarters of the U.S. Army in Heidelberg. The demonstrations come as Saddam proclaimed Friday Iraq is ready for war with the United States. His words added to an atmosphere of urgency that followed the discovery of 12 empty chemical warheads in Iraq. U.N. weapons inspectors were trying to determine if the discovery represented a violation of U.N. resolutions, a possible trigger for war. Meanwhile, 3,500 Palestinians marched Friday in support of Saddam in Gaza City, filling the narrow streets with fluttering Iraqi flags and pictures of the Iraqi leader. Some chanted, ``Our beloved Saddam, strike Tel Aviv,'' reviving a slogan from the 1991 Gulf War. ``The Palestinian people and Iraqi people are in the same trench of resistance against the aggression and against injustice,'' said Abdel Aziz Rantisi, a Hamas leader. In the Bahraini capital of Manama, more than 1,500 citizens waving placards and banners marched saying ``No!'' to war with Iraq and calling on their pro-Western leadership to expel U.S. forces from the kingdom. The small Persian Gulf state is home to the U.S. 5th fleet and hosts about 1,000 U.S. military personnel who would be among the forces used in any American-led attack on Iraq. In London Friday, a spokesman for the lobby group Voices in the Wilderness said war on Iraq would be illegal, immoral and counter productive. ``There is no U.N. mandate for war,'' said Gabriel Carlyle. ``It is immoral because hundreds and thousands of innocent people will die and it is not about human rights and democracy but replacing Saddam Hussein with a more U.S.-friendly dictator.''