'Peace mom' turns attention to Guantanamo

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American "peace mom" Cindy Sheehan called for the closure of the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, as she and other activists arrived in Cuba on Saturday to draw attention to the nearly 400 terror suspects held at the remote site.

Sheehan is among 12 human rights and anti-war activists who will travel across this Caribbean island next week, arriving at the main gate of the Guantanamo base in eastern Cuba on Thursday -- five years after the first prisoners were flown in.

"Anyone who knows me knows that I am not afraid of anything," Sheehan said when asked about the possibility of U.S. sanctions for traveling to communist-run Cuba, which remains under an American trade embargo.

"What is more important is the inhumanity that my government is perpetrating at Guantanamo," she told reporters.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/americas/01/06/gitmo.sheehan.ap/index.html

[NanceGreggs]

1. Proud of your mom, Casey?

Yeah, figured you would be. All of us are ...

She's quite the lady, and she speaks for millions of Americans every time she opens her mouth.

:patriot:

[az chela]

2. Cindy is my hero.I cant belive the lengths she has went to

to get where she is but she is one in a million

[cassiepriam]

3. Saint Cindy. Truly.

My thoughts and prayers are with you always Cindy.

[Vidar]

4. I have tremendous admiration for Cindy's courage & determination.