Sunday 15 June, pm Approximately 4000 of people have been demonstrating today in Parliament Square, London on the occasion of George Bush’s visit to Britain to meet with Gorgon Brown. People gathered to express their dissent against the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and Bush’s plan to make the US occupation of Iraq permanent. Demonstrators want George Bush to know that the majority ofpeople in Britain have always opposed his war policiesand want the withdrawal of all British troops from Iraq and Afghanistan now. Demonstrators are also calling on Gordon Brown to end the Brit
Sunday 15 June, pm Approximately 4000 of people have been demonstrating today in Parliament Square, London on the occasion of George Bush’s visit to Britain to meet with Gorgon Brown. People gathered to express their dissent against the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and Bush’s plan to make the US occupation of Iraq permanent. Demonstrators want George Bush to know that the majority ofpeople in Britain have always opposed his war policiesand want the withdrawal of all British troops from Iraq and Afghanistan now. Demonstrators are also calling on Gordon Brown to end the Britishgovernment's servile cooperation with the ‘war on terror’. Playwright and Nobel Prize winner Harold Pinter,human rights lawyer Louise Christian, former Guantanamodetainee, Moazzam Begg, novelist Iain Banks and actor RogerLloyd Pack were among the leading political, legal and cultural figures joiningthe campaign to say that George Bush is not welcome here andthat he should be taken to a war crimes tribunal and made accountable for his war crimes. The demonstration has been organised by Stop the War Coalition and the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament Among the speakers George Galloway Tony Benn Brian Haw 12 protesters were arrested during the demonstrati
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