Anti-war campaigners went to the British prime minister’s residence in London on Wednesday to deliver copies of their passports and a list of Iraqi cities they will “shield” from bombs.

However, Tony Blair did not receive their submission in person, nor directly hear their plan to travel to Iraq over the next few weeks to act as “human shields”.

If enough westerners are in the country as the US and Britain prepare for war, they say, politicians will be reluctant to bomb. As Ken O’Keefe, a former US Marine who leads the Truth, Peace, Justice movement, puts it: “They don’t want western body parts flying everywhere.”

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