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Volunteer 'Human Shields' to Head for Iraq, By Andrew Cawthorne LONDON (Reuters) - A first wave of mainly Western volunteers will leave London this weekend on a convoy bound for Iraq to act as 'human shields' at key sites and populous areas in case of a U.S.-led war on Baghdad. 'The potential for white Western body parts flying around with the Iraqi ones should make them think again about this imperialist oil war,' said organizer Ken Nichols, a former U.S. marine in the 1991 Gulf War. His 'We the People' organization will be sending off a first group of 50 human shields from the London mayor's City Hall building Saturday, part of a series of departures organizers say will involve hundreds, possibly thousands, of volunteers. Nichols' planned human shield convoys are one of several such efforts around the world to mobilize activists in Iraq as a deterrent against military strikes on Baghdad. In Bucharest, more than 100 Romanian diehard communists said Tuesday they would travel by bus to Iraq to act as human shields in case of a U.S. attack...
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