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Kronologi over fredssagen og international politik 8. Juli 2003 / Time Line July 8, 2003
Version 3.007/08/2003
Uran-gate
Det hvide hus erkender, at oplysningerne om Iraks
påståede forsøg på at købe uran i
Afrika var falske.
07/08/2003
The White House acknowledges that the information about Iraq's
alleged attempts to buy uranium in Africa were false.
White House Daily Briefing, July 14, 2003
[Excerpts on Disputed Iraqi
Uranium Allegations] 
[...]
Q: Ari, does the President stand by all the statements he made in
the run-up to the invasion of Iraq to the American people?
MR. FLEISCHER: I think you've heard what the President has said
about the State of the Union remarks, about whether Iraq did or did
not seek uranium from Africa. Other than that, of course the
President does. And even on that, that is ...
- http://www.fas.org/irp/news/2003/07/wh071403b.html
Charges Dismissed Against First Jailed War Protesters
[CHICAGO] The State dismissed charges against sixteen members of
the faith-based Circle of Life Affinity Group on trial Monday, July
7 for criminal trespass to property in Judge Mark Ballard's Cook
County Circuit Courtroom.
Members of the Circle of Life were arrested at the Kluczynski
Federal Building on January 27 protesting the first strike war in
Iraq, becoming Chicago's first arrested demonstrators prior to the
recent invasion of Iraq.
Melinda Power, the group's attorney, said, "This dismissal is a
victory for all of the tens of thousands of Chicagoans who
protested against the war in Iraq."
Defendant Chris Inserra, a music teacher and mother of three said,
"The state dismissed our charges but they cannot dismiss our acts
of conscience against the unjust war in Iraq." "The state dismissed
our charges, but the U.S. government cannot dismiss the illegality
of the war in Iraq. They cannot dismiss the fact that every
justification for the war has been found to be false," she
added.
The group faced penalties up to a year in jail. They were prepared
to utilize the Necessity Defense, a legal procedure demonstrating
that the defendants reasonably believed such actions were necessary
to prevent a greater harm or illegality.
The group is representative of various faith and peace
organizations including Voices in the Wilderness, IL School of the
Americas Watch, Iraq Peace Pledge, Pax Christi and the American
Friends Service Committee. The group is composed of grandfathers,
mothers, fathers and includes university chaplains, a UCC minister,
a seminary professor, an engineer, social workers and people who
have visited Iraq.
Source: Email fra Anthony Nicotera, LSW
Chaplain Center for Spirituality & Values in Practice
Dept. of University Ministry - DPC 11009
1 E. Jackson Blvd.
Chicago, IL 60604
312-362-5896
anicoter@depaul.edu
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