If Only the World Had Listened
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on March 30th, 2009 4:43 am by HL
If Only the World Had Listened
Tom Hurndall was one of a bunch of “human shields” who turned up in Baghdad just before the Anglo-American invasion in 2003, the kind of folk we professional reporters make fun of. Tree huggers, that kind of thing. Now I wish I had met him because Hurndall’s journals show a remarkable man of remarkable principle.
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