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Thanks to Freeper SevenOfNine for the ping to this article:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article7141223.ece

From The Times
June 1, 2010
“Fears grow for Britons on board Gaza ship”

SNIPPET: “Denis Healey, 55, skippered the Challenger 1, which was flying the American flag.”

SNIPPET: “...along with three Irish campaigners named as Dr Fintan Lane, Fiachra O’ Luain and Shane Dillon.”

SNIPPET: “Mairead Corrigan-Maguire, the Northern Irish Nobel peace laureate...”

SNIPPET: “Four Scottish passengers are missing, including Hassan Ghani, a 24-year old reporter for the Iranian Government’s news channel, Press TV.”

SNIPPET: “The other Scots have been named as Ali El-Awaisi, 21, from Dundee, and Hassan Nowarah, a Palestinian who has lived in Glasgow for up to 20 years. A fourth, Theresa McDermott, 43, from Edinburgh, is an activist with the Free Gaza campaign group.”

SNIPPET: “Sarah Colborne, the group’s director of campaigns and operations, was on board the Turkish ship, Mavi Marmara. Cliff Hanley, an artist from Bristol was also missing last night. He had flown out to Turkey this week with Sakir Yildrim, who lives in Southville but is originally from the Black Sea.”

SNIPPET: “A pizza shop owner, Gehad Sukkur, from Altrincham, Cheshire, was orginally from Gaza but had lived in the UK for ten years”.

SNIPPET: “Kevin Ovenden, a prominent member of the Socialist Workers Party on board the flotilla representing British-based charity Viva Palestina is also still missing.”


95 posted on 05/31/2010 6:07:12 PM PDT by Cindy
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www.twocircles.net/2010may31/israeli_attack_gaza_flotilla_uk_s_slow_response_condemned.html

“Israeli attack on Gaza flotilla, UK’s slow response condemned”

Submitted by admin4 on 31 May 2010 - 4:27pm.
Indian Muslim Muslim World News
By TCN News,

New Delhi -

SNIPPET: “The Muslim News has provided the list of British citizens on Mavi Marmara where the Israeli raid took place and 19 of the passengers killed: Laura Macdonald Stuart, Ebrahim Musaji, Jamal Sayed, Parveen Yaqub, Baboo Adem Zanghar, Ahsan Shamruk, Mustafa Cengiz Ahmet, Tauqir Sharif, Boudjema Bounoua, Mohammad Bounoua, Sakir Yildirim, Kenneth O’Keefe, Ali El-Awaisi, Mohammed Bhaiyat, Lort Phillips Alexandra Mary, Sarah Nancy Colborne, Ismail Adam Patel, Nader Daher, Mahi Mohammed Abid, Nur-E-Azom Choudhury, Ovenden Kevin, Peter Venner, Clifford Gardner Hanley, Muzzammil Layth Chogley, Jamaluddin Mohammad Farid Elshayyal, Hassan Al Banna Ghani, Lazrag Salah, Ali Altan,

There will be a peaceful protest outside 10 Downing Street at 2pm today against the British Government’s silence over the killings and calling on the Government for an “immediate intervention”.

Another demonstration is being held in Manchester at the BBC on Oxford Road at 5pm.”


96 posted on 05/31/2010 7:34:08 PM PDT by Cindy
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