[A-List] Fw: Moscow: Anti-War Protesters Besiege US Embassy

["Christopher Black" <bar@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2003 7:31 AM
Subject: Moscow: Anti-War Protesters Besiege US Embassy


> http://www.itar-tass.com/different/hotnews/english/265664.html
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> [For photograph of demonstration, click on URL above]
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> ITAR-TASS
> April 9, 2003
>
> Crowds of protesters besiege US embassy building
> By Natalia Panshina, Timur Prokopenko
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> MOSCOW, April 9 (Itar-Tass) -- Moscow police have
> detained several protesters taking part in the anti-
> war rally which continues outside the US embassy in
> Moscow, The men detained had attempted to hurl
> toy-like plastic things at the embassy building.
>
> The incident occurred when one of the groups
> protesting the war in Iraq was passing by a fence
> placed around the embassy building to keep off the
> crowd. Several young people attempted to hurl toy-like
> plastic objects at the embassy. Police immediately
> interfered and detained them.
>
> Andrei Isayev, deputy of the Duma (lower house) said
> that around 20,000 had gathered at the embassy already
> and approximately the same number were coming. Crowds
> of protesters have been incessantly moving from other
> districts towards Novinsky boulevard where the US
> embassy is headquartered. Organizers said earlier that
> the expected turnout was around 100,000. Ambulance
> brigades have been accompanying the protest march. One
> of the ambulances took away a man who fainted on the
> way to the embassy building
>
> More than a thousand different anti-war slogans have
> been carried by the people. Newly arriving pickets
> have been handed leaflets that condemn the activities
> of the anti-Iraqi coalition.
>
> Vladimir Lysenko, deputy of the lower house, told
> Itar-Tass that Wednesday's protest act would be a
> "powerful argument at subsequent talks between the
> Russian and US presidents on post-war settlement in
> Iraq that should be a responsibility of the United
> Nations, rather than the United States or Britain.
>
> The building of the US embassy has been cordoned off
> by metal fences. Reinforcements from Moscow police,
> Interior troops and Moscow riot police have arrived to
> help the embassy security guards.
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