The Iraqi government ordered the expulsion of a German "human shield" and three of his friends, citing security risks as the reason for the decision. A resident of the south German town of Tuebingen, Juergen Hahnel, had spent the past weeks as a "human shield" at a Baghdad-based oil refinery. "I regret especially to leave behind the Iraqi workers at the oil refinery with whom I had experienced the bombings of the recent days and nights," Hahnel was quoted as saying. Hahnel who received wide-scale coverage in the German media, was reportedly on its way to the Syrian border. There are dozens of international "human shields" inside Iraq, hoping to prevent coalition air strikes on Iraq's strategic civilian sites.
"You ain't stopped nothin' from bein' bombed, so get the hell out." |