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| Human shield run over by bulldozer in Gaza |
| 2003-03-16 |
| An American woman in Gaza to protest against Israeli operations was killed Sunday when she was run over by an Israeli bulldozer, witnesses and hospital officials said. Witnesses said Rachel Corrie, 23, from Olympia, Wash., was trying to stop the bulldozer from tearing down a building in the Rafah refugee camp, witnesses said, when she was run over. She was taken to Najar hospital in Rafah, where she died, said Dr. Ali Moussa, a hospital administrator. Greg Schnabel, 28, from Chicago, said the protesters were in the house of Dr. Samir Masri. "Rachel was alone in front of the house as we were trying to get them to stop," he said. "She waved for bulldozer to stop and waved. She fell down and the bulldozer kept going. We yelled 'stop, stop', and the bulldozer didn't stop at all. It had completely run over her and then it reversed and ran back over her," he said. Bet that hurt, briefly... Groups of international protesters have gathered in several locations in the West Bank and Gaza during two years of Palestinian violence, setting themselves up as "human shields" to try to stop Israeli operations there. Corrie was the first member of the groups, called "International Solidarity Movement," to be killed in the conflict. Schnabel said there were eight protesters at the site, four from the United States and four from Great Britain. "We stay with families whose house is to be demolished," he told the Associated Press by telephone from Rafah after the incident. The IDF demolishes the houses of Bad Guys. The International Solidarity Movement is expressing solidarity with the Bad Guys... |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #11 Maybe our bulldozer driver was just mezmerized by her nobility and hit the gas instead of the brake. Too bad, so sad, honey. These people play for keeps. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2003-03-16 21:54:18 |
| #10 How............darwinian |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2003-03-16 20:41:05 |
| #9 Is that her face before or after the bulldozer ran over her? |
| Posted by: JDB 2003-03-16 19:42:51 |
| #8 Sad thing is they're (even on Fox) trying to paint her as some heroic martyr.... |
| Posted by: Frank G 2003-03-16 19:03:03 |
| #7 ying and yang. Islamist provide suicide bombers, we provide suicide targets. symmetry. Darwin Award candidate. |
| Posted by: john 2003-03-16 18:54:19 |
| #6 Oooh. Homely. |
| Posted by: Fred 2003-03-16 17:46:42 |
| #5 badanov - apparently you didn't see the picture of the (un)lovely ms. Rachel teaching Paleo kids the proper way to burn the American flag? Pardon me while I ululate for the chlorine in the gene pool |
| Posted by: Frank G 2003-03-16 17:12:41 |
| #4 What is it with these un-ugly women in their 20s. Are they not getting laid? What ever happened to making the world better by raising kids?. She should have been in Idaho, driving the SUV to the grocery store and theatening her kids to tell Daddy if they don't shut up. |
| Posted by: badanov 2003-03-16 14:05:33 |
| #3 Did she at least have her towel with her? |
| Posted by: Laurence of the Rats 2003-03-16 13:56:08 |
| #2 She should have gone down to the pub with Ford Prefect when he invited her. |
| Posted by: jdhays 2003-03-16 13:38:47 |
| #1 then it reversed and ran back over her congratulations on a job well done, Rachel |
| Posted by: Frank G 2003-03-16 11:47:26 |