ATTENTION: ALL INTERNATIONAL MEDIA AT THE PALESTINE HOTEL IN BAGHDAD
For Immediate Release
April 11, 2003
The electric generator at the
Al Fanar hotel is a beacon
during Baghdad's blackout
Contact:
Tom Walsh, Chicago, 773.784.8065
Kathy Kelly, Al Fanar Hotel, Baghdad
Thirteen members of Voices in The Wilderness “Iraq Peace Team” are across the street at the Al Fanar Hotel. They have been in Baghdad for the entire 24 days of the war. They have been visiting HOSPITALS, ORPHANAGES, MARKETPLACES, AND IRAQI FAMILIES on a daily basis.
They are now visiting with US TROOPS at the hotel talking about their “NON-EMBEDDED” eyewitness reports about the war and the reasons Voices has had a presence in Iraq for over 8 years.
- They have had relationships with Iraqi families for days, weeks and years.
- They were eyewitnesses to the Palestine Hotel attack by a US armed carrier.
- They are doctors, mental health professionals, authors, Congressional Medal of Honor winner, and Nobel Peace Prize nominee.
- They are from Canada, United States, South Korea and Australia.
Voices in The Wilderness' 13 Iraq Peace Team members are continuing independent reporting from downtown locations in Baghdad. They remain to offer any help they can give to all peoples struggling to survive through invasion and occupation.
www.electroniciraq.net
www.vitw.org
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