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Protests Against Obama At Buckingham Palace

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A bewildering variety of protesters turned up at Buckingham Palace for President Obama’s visit, calling for the release of Londoner Shaker Aamer from Guantanamo and an end to US interference in Libya and other Arab nations. London, UK. 24th May 2011

A bewildering variety of protesters turned up at Buckingham Palace for President Obama’s visit, calling for the release of Londoner Shaker Aamer from Guantanamo and an end to US interference in Libya and other Arab nations. London, UK. 24/05/2011

First to arrive were the Shaker Aamer and London Guantanamo campaigns with around a dozen protesters in orange jumpsuits, several with black hoods and one man in chains wearing an Obama mask. They urged Obama to carry out his earlier promise to close down Guantanamo, and in particular to send home Londoner Shaker Aamer, held for 9 years without charge or trial. His family in Battersea includes one child born after he was detained who he has yet to see.

Other groups arrived around half an hour later, including Stop the War who were calling for an end to the war in Afghanistan and the bombing in Libya. They brought with them a cowboy with two six-shooters which he aimed at targets scattered around the Middle East on a large map of the world.

There was also a large group of Libyan protesters supporting Gadaffi, with green flags and scarves, also calling for an end to NATO attacks on Libya which are killing civilians, and the embargoes which are making life hard for the people of the country.

At each end of the protesters were two groups of Syrians, both with Syrian flags, one against the dictator president Assad responsible for the army firing on and killing peaceful demonstrators in Syrian and the other group with large professionally produced placards and posters supporting him.

Another large group were Bahrainis, protesting about the use of Saudi troops against protesters there. At times the groups were rather mixed together, and with many of the placards only in Arabic it was hard to tell who was who. There were also protesters from Iraq and I think a few from Iran, along with several indiduals pleading particular causes, including Peter Tatchell with a placard calling for the release of Wikileaks whistleblower Bradley Manning who exposed US war crimes and anti-gun campaigner and former boxer King David.

I didn’t see Obama, although I imagine he was somewhere in the large motorcade that came past the demonstrations and may have noticed that something was happening, but the media were out in force for the event and doubtless he and his advisers, along with the UK government will have seen some of them on TV and in the press. …source