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Kronologi over fredssagen og international politik 26. november 2003 / Timeline November 26, 2003
Version 3.525. November 2003, 27. November 2003
11/26/2003
Armed checkpoints, embedded reporters in flak jackets, brutal
suppression of peaceful demonstrators. Baghdad? No, Miami
Small, peaceful demonstrations were attacked with extreme force;
organisations were infiltrated by undercover officers who used stun
guns; buses of union members were prevented from joining permitted
marches; people were beaten with batons; activists had guns pointed
at their heads at checkpoints.
$8.5m spent on security during the FTAA meeting came out of the
$87bn Bush extracted from Congress for Iraq last month.
But more was borrowed from the Iraq war than just money. Miami
police also invited reporters to "embed" with them in armoured
vehicles and helicopters, writes Naomi Klein in The Guardian.
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