From yesterday's (March 6, 2003) Jordan Times:
Human shield buses stuck in Beirut
BEIRUT (R) — Two red double decker buses and a white London taxi that ferried anti-war activists to Baghdad to serve as “human shields” are stranded in Beirut with their owner short of the $5,500 it costs to ship them home.
The buses and taxi, dusty after a six-week overland journey that began at London's Tower Bridge, were plastered with signs saying “No to a war on Iraq” and “No to war, Yes to peace.”
“The buses have to be shipped back. It's just not practical to drive them,” said owner Joe Letts, adding that he would fly to London on Thursday to try to raise cash. “I thought I would let people know it's a problem,” he added, sitting in a makeshift kitchen on his bus in central Beirut.
Letts said he left London with 45 human shields of 10-12 nationalities, and picked up a dozen or so more in Turkey before arriving in Baghdad, where he spent a week sleeping in a power station hoping to prevent a possible US-led attack.
More and more, it seems that these people are totally oblivious to the logical consequences of their own actions.
