War - period ended 11.1.2006

War/Protest/Westgate, Caroline/Caroline battles on for peace/Hexham Courant/Hexham/England/UK/20-Oct-06//... Caroline, a committed Quaker since a period of emotional turmoil during the early 1980s led her in through the doors of the faith’s Stocksfield meeting house ...

War/Protest/Westbury Friends Meeting/Goodman, Richard/Fighting in a quiet way for peace/Newsday/Long Island/NY/USA/30-Oct-06//... Already that morning he'd taken the family dog for a walk, then steered his Toyota toward a breakfast spot within walking distance of the Quaker Meeting House in Westbury. He's a regular at the eatery and one of 80 members of that aging congregation, where he runs the six-person Committee for Peace and Social Order. "'Wherever two or three are gathered,'" Goodman said, invoking a scripture on the power of tiny, faithful contingents. "If we were worried about our small numbers, we'd never do anything."e ...

War/Protest/Politics and Economics/Blaze guts spy unit's building at Ft. Meade/Annapolis Capital/Annapolis/MD/USA/21-Oct-06//... Nicknamed "The Deuce" and led by Col. Christopher L. Winne who took command in July, the 902nd is the Army's largest counterintelligence unit with more than 1,000 people.

According to the its Web site, the group "conducts counterintelligence activities in support of Army commanders and to protect Army forces, secrets and technologies by detecting, identifying, neutralizing and exploiting foreign intelligence services and international terrorist threats."

Its "core competencies" include espionage, computer forensics, surveillance and polygraph, the Web site states.

NBC's Dateline program reported last December that members of the 902nd infiltrated an anti-war Quaker group in Florida called the Truth Project.

The Truth Project was deemed to be a threat, NBC reported.. ...

War/Protest/Morality/Langley Hill Friends Meeting/Langley Hill Friends Protest Torture/Great Falls Connection/Great Falls/VA/USA/18-Oct-06//... Langley Hill Friends Meeting. However, it was not typical of the usual Sunday gatherings for the Quaker worship group. "The Meeting as ...

War/Protest/Morality/Langley Hill Friends Meeting/Langley Hill Friends Protest Torture/McLean Connection/McLean/VA/USA/18-Oct-06//... Langley Hill Friends Meeting. However, it was not typical of the usual Sunday gatherings for the Quaker worship group. "The Meeting as ...

War/Protest/Advertising/Billboard/Village's sign of troubled times/Albany Times Union/Albany/NY/USA/17-Oct-06//... An Old Chatham Quaker Meeting committee chose the image over a half-dozen milder submissions, such as a yellow ribbon with the slogan: "Peace. ."These are not mild times," said Jens Braun, 48, a committee member who teaches peace studies at Berkshire Community College. "These are times when we are doing some things which I think historically we will look back on and really regret."..

War/Protest/Advertising/Billboard/Clergy group's billboard airs torture issue/Waterbury Republican American/Waterbury/CT/USA/17-Oct-06//... we needed moral leadership in Washington and, in this case, the incumbents failed to provide it," said John Humphries, a Hartford man of Quaker faith and a ...

War/Protest///Meade intel building survives fire/ArmyTimes.com/Quantico/VA/USA/25-Oct-06//... The 902nd last made news in December when NBC ran a report showing members infiltrating an anti-war Quaker group in Florida known as The Truth Project, as well as in July when the American Civil Liberties Union filed a Freedom of Information Act request that showed the group monitored protests in California. ...

War/Iraq/Law/First Friends Church/Iraq war resister seeking support/San Gabriel Valley Tribune/San Gabriel/CA/USA/17-Oct-06//... said Bob Watada, who stopped in Whittier as part of his nationwide speaking tour, addressing about 100 anti-war sympathizers at First Friends Church in Uptown. ...

War/Iraq/Law/First Friends Church/Iraq war resister seeking support/Whittier Daily News/Whittier/CA/USA/17-Oct-06//... said Bob Watada, who stopped in Whittier as part of his nationwide speaking tour, addressing about 100 anti-war sympathizers at First Friends Church in Uptown. ...

War/Iraq/Law/First Friends Church/War resister dividing community/Pasadena Star-News/Pasadena/CA/USA/17-Oct-06//... "When Ehren was told he would be going to Iraq, he researched everything about it," said Bob Watada, who stopped in Whittier as part of his nationwide speaking tour, addressing about 100 anti-war sympathizers at First Friends Church in Uptown.

Ehren Watada was not able to comment for this story, under the advisement of his attorney.

Watada's attorney, Eric Seitz, is attempting to apply the Nuremberg Principles, a document that outlines what constitutes a war crime, as his key argument in the young lieutenant's defense. The Nuremberg Principles were established in the wake of the 1945 Nuremberg trials, which led to the convictions of leading Nazis on war crimes charges.

"After the Nuremberg trials, you can't use `I was just following orders' as an excuse anymore," Bob Watada said. "He started thinking that he would be complicit in war crimes and crimes against humanity for participating in an illegal and immoral war." . ...But some in the Japanese-American community see Watada's actions as a slap in the face of those Japanese Americans who served and died in the military out of a sense of patriotism and loyalty to the United States. .....

War/Human Rights/Civil Rights/US must not stoop to using torture/Rochester Democrat and Chronicle/Rochester/NY/USA/20-Oct-06//... policies "terrorist sympathizers" and "traitors." And the Defense Intelligence Agency and the FBI dispatch spies to report on meetings of Quaker peace activists ...

War/Conscience//Veiled Insult/Washington Post/Washington/DC/USA/24-Oct-06//... A Quaker cannot join the Army and then state that his religion prohibits him from fighting. By the same token, a Muslim woman who wants to cover her face has no absolute right to work in a school or an office where face-to-face conversations are part of the job.

It isn't religious discrimination or anti-Muslim bias to tell her that she must be polite to the natives, respect the local customs, try to speak some of the local patois -- and uncover her face. ...

War/Activist///Perspectives on Iraq/Anchorage Daily News/Anchorage/AK/USA/16-Oct-06//…"Perspectives on Iraq," a panel discussion with UAA faculty and peace activist Kathy Kelly, 2:30-4:15, Social Sciences Building, Room 118, University of Alaska Anchorage. Includes question-and-answer session. Kelly will talk about her book and lead a discussion 5-7 p.m. at the UAA Bookstore, 3211 Providence Drive. Sponsored by Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, Alaskans for Peace and Justice, Vets for Peace, Interfaith Peacemakers and Anchorage Religious Society of Friends. Free. ...