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1. Greenboro report on Rachel Corrie, sweet rose
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Zionism.
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80 protest at Greensboro vigil
U.S. woman killed in Gaza Strip is remembered as
'hero'
By Michael Hewlett
JOURNAL REPORTER
About 80 people gathered yesterday at the
Governmental Plaza in downtown
Greensboro to protest the war in Iraq and to
remember a 23-year-old American
woman killed in the midst of the
Israeli-Palestinian
conflict.
Yusra Al-Alqrah, a Palestinian who grew up in the
West Bank and taught in
Kuwait a year before the first Persian Gulf War
started in 1991, said she saw
Rachel Corrie as a hero.
Corrie, a college student from Olympia, Wash.,
was the first international
protester to be killed during the 30-month
conflict between Israelis and
Palestinians.
Working for a U.S. group called
International Solidarity Movement,
Corrie was
killed when an Israeli military bulldozer crushed
her as she crouched in its
path. Witnesses have said that she was trying to
protect the home of a
Palestinian physician in the Gaza Strip.
"What Rachel did, she didn't do for oil, money or
to be famous," Al-Alqrah
said. "She went to help innocent people."
Corrie's parents, who live in Charlotte, have
asked that the Federal Bureau
of Investigation or the State Department conduct
an independent investigation
in the incident. Israeli officials have called
the death an accident.
Others also protested what they see as an immoral
war. "I feel that the
impasse between Islam and the West will continue
as long as the American
administration is playing God in this war," said
Badi Ali, the president of
the Islamic Center of the Triad.
The center organized the candlelight vigil along
with the Greensboro
Coalition for Peace and the Not in Our Name
Project, a national anti-war
organization.
Ali had planned to travel to Iraq to serve as a
human shield and said he was
ready to leave Monday, but the Iraqi borders were
closed. The vigil was
another way to get the same message across, he
said.
He said he disagrees with those who say that the
war is to liberate the Iraqi
people from Saddam Hussein's dictatorship. "We
liberate people by bombs and
missiles?" Ali said. "I don't understand. Is this
war going to liberate them
or are we going to liberate them from life?"
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