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On [[January 25]], [[2003]] an international group of volunteers left [[London]] and headed for [[Baghdad]] to act as voluntary [[human shields]], hoping to avert a U.S. invasion. The action's primary organiser was [[Kenneth O'Keefe]], a former U.S. Marine who served in the [[1991]] [[Gulf War]] but who renounced his citizenship afterwards. The convoy travelled through Europe and Turkey by bus to pick up like-minded people along the way, which totalled about 70. It is estimated that 500-700 people eventually made their way to Iraq before the U.S. invasion in march.
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