Police nab activists seeking Bush’s nuke suitcase
Web posted at: 5/9/2005 9:50:39
Source ::: Agencies
MAASTRICHT, Netherlands: Dutch police arrested six activists yesterday who said they wanted to enter US President George W Bush’s Netherlands hotel and look for the suitcase which allows him to activate nuclear weapons.
“We heard Bush carries a nuclear suitcase and can push the red button at any time to set off atomic weapons. We find this extremely shocking,” said Leo de Groot, a spokesman for the activist group. The activists, carrying binoculars and wearing signs that identified them as “citizen’s inspectors”, mimicking the International Atomic Energy Agency’s weapons inspectors, were caught by Dutch soldiers as they approached Bush’s hotel.
In a separate incident, an amateur photographer seriously hurt himself on Saturday by falling onto a spiked fence as he tried to photograph the tight security arrangements around the hotel, police said.
Hundreds of Dutch protesters rallied on Saturday in Amsterdam and Maastricht to protest against Bush who visited a US military cemetery in the Netherlands yesterday to pay tribute to the Americans who died in World War Two.
Meanwhile, Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi left for Moscow yesterday to attend ceremonies marking the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany.
Web posted at: 5/9/2005 9:50:39
Source ::: Agencies
MAASTRICHT, Netherlands: Dutch police arrested six activists yesterday who said they wanted to enter US President George W Bush’s Netherlands hotel and look for the suitcase which allows him to activate nuclear weapons.
“We heard Bush carries a nuclear suitcase and can push the red button at any time to set off atomic weapons. We find this extremely shocking,” said Leo de Groot, a spokesman for the activist group. The activists, carrying binoculars and wearing signs that identified them as “citizen’s inspectors”, mimicking the International Atomic Energy Agency’s weapons inspectors, were caught by Dutch soldiers as they approached Bush’s hotel.
In a separate incident, an amateur photographer seriously hurt himself on Saturday by falling onto a spiked fence as he tried to photograph the tight security arrangements around the hotel, police said.
Hundreds of Dutch protesters rallied on Saturday in Amsterdam and Maastricht to protest against Bush who visited a US military cemetery in the Netherlands yesterday to pay tribute to the Americans who died in World War Two.
Meanwhile, Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi left for Moscow yesterday to attend ceremonies marking the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany.
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