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Ann Wright was on the Challenger I when the flotilla was attacked.

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"People were thrown on the deck. Windows were blown out. Flash bangs were
used. One of our journalists was hit with something of an electric
shock. I don't know that it was a taser. She doesn't know, either, yet.
One of the women was hit in the face, in the nose, with one of the
liquid-filled balls. They were very excessively rough, excessively
forceful, on trying to slow down, stop--actually, we were already
stopped. They weren't stopping us at all. We were already dead in the
water, and yet all of this force used on us."

"... there are other ways to do it, if
you want to kind of preserve a sense of civility, humanity, and meeting
the international law, quite honestly.
"

"They are pirates. They kidnap people, and they're stealing stuff.
They've probably stolen over a million dollars' worth of cameras,
computers, cell phones. I mean, I'm in Istanbul. We just got here early
this morning. Some luggage is here. There's not a thing in it.
Everything has been taken." http://www.democracynow.org/2010/6/3/huwaida

 

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