Scuffle Outside Olympic Flame Stadium

[babylonsister]

http://www.salon.com/wires/ap/world/2008/03/30/D8VNOC780_olympic_torch/index.html

Scuffle Outside Olympic Flame Stadium


Mar 30th, 2008 | ATHENS, Greece -- Greek officials have handed over the Olympic flame to organizers of the Beijing Olympics.

Police scuffled with pro-Tibet protesters before the ceremony. About 10 demonstrators were detained. They failed to disrupt the final leg of the weeklong Greek leg of the torch relay from Ancient Olympia to the marble Panathenian Stadium where the first modern Olympics were held in 1896.

The protesters chanted "Save Tibet!" and unfurled a banner that read "Stop Genocide in Tibet."

The torch will arrive March 31 in Beijing on a specially equipped airliner. It then will travel through 20 countries before returning to mainland China — covering 85,100 miles.

[madrchsod]

1. bbc news america

friday had the head of the Olympic committee and the lady who represents the organization who is leading protest at each city the torch passes through...it was quite a dust-up!
by the way bbc news america is thee best mainstream news on cable/sat. friday`s was about about curve-ball and they had powell`s second in command at that time...the guy was livid because he and powell were lied to. the commentator was trying to accuse him of knowing but the guy was never backed down.

[JCMach1]

2. I hope they manage to douse it... My family is going to blackout any Olympic coverage

the behavior of Chinese over the past year has been insane.

[Kajsa]

3. I agree,

I wish the IOC had chosen another country to host
this summer's games.

The Chinese government has too much blood on its
hands- much of it from the people slaughtered in Darfur.


:(

[babylonsister]

4. I think this is the tip of the iceburg. Stand by for more protests. nt

[JCMach1]

5. They displaced nearly a million people internally to hold these games!

Not mention Tibet, the insane cat roundup... and the list goes on.

I won't support a regime with so much blood on its hands by watching its version of the Berlin Games.