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Can't We All Just Get Along?
Activist says he was shot in confrontation with whalers |
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07 Mar 2008 |
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| Posted at 10:10 AM on 07 Mar 2008 The captain of the radical anti-whaling Sea Shepherd Conservation Society says he was shot in a clash with Japanese whalers on Friday. Paul Watson says he found a bullet in his Kevlar vest; Japan's fisheries agency disputed the accusation, saying those onboard the whaling ship retaliated with non-lethal flash grenades after activists threw stink bombs of eye-stinging butyric aci ... |
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| Topics: grassroots activism, Japan, news, oceans, whaling, wildlife (all these topics) |
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