Urgent appeal: US soldiers raid Iraqi trade union HQ

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Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2003 6:38 PM
Subject: Urgent appeal: US soldiers raid Iraqi trade union HQ

We have just received an urgent appeal from the Iraqi Federation of Trade
Unions which we feel needs to be passed on to the largest possible number of
trade unionists in the next several days.

On Saturday, dozens of US troops in ten armoured cars raided the IFTU
temporary headquarters in Baghdad, smashing windows, seizing documents, and
even tearing down posters and banners condemning terrorism. Eight IFTU
leaders were arrested, but were released the following day, unharmed.

No reason or explanation was given for the raid.

The IFTU is calling on President Bush to conduct a full investigation of the
raid and to ensure that it will not be repeated. The United States must
respect the right of workers under international law to have free and
independent trade unions.

Please visit this page and send on your protest to the White House today:

http://www.labourstart.org/cgi-bin/solidarityforever/show_campaign.cgi?c=22

Please pass on this message to all your lists. Thanks very much.

I just signed it, and all their other online petitions too.

And...*kick*

i have had close protection bodyguards in Iraq for some time.  all my
personnel are former SAS and all say what a bad state the country is in. http://www.int-int.info Close
Protection in Iraq is a must for the peoples of Iraq unless some http://www.int-int.biz body
armor can be supplied by government procurement or defense sales.

Labourstart is a good website to obtain a snapshot of worldwide labou and social struggles. Thank you for the post Indiana.