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awaiting trial, but the terms of his release essentially bar him from going home. He is required to check in at the Barcelona courthouse every two weeks. His lawyer has advised him that it may be two years or more before his case goes to trial. Spanish police say Gelderloos was one of the leaders in a group of several dozen squatters gathered April 23 at a main drag. The protesters were pushing a shopping cart rigged to look like it had a cannon sticking out of it, said a police official in Barcelona.

At one point Gelderloos and other protesters started to scream have a bomb, we have a and then the firecracker exploded, the official said, adding that Gelderloos was among those who set off the firecracker. who did not know it was a joke could have had panic Gelderloos offered a very dif- ferent account: He had arrived in Spain at the end of March, alone and unable to speak Spanish. While he was interested in learning about radical movements, he was there as a tourist. In an e-mail, Gelderloos said he had met some of the protesters prior to the protest. had not helped organize it and when the (firecracker) went off I was leaving to meet another he said.

contention that I got intimately involved with criminal elements or whomever in this timeframe is fairly When police broke up the protest, Gelderloos said he did what he would do in the states: monitor the police to document any abuse. A police officer asked him a question, and Gelderloos responded by saying he understand Spanish very well and showing the officer his passport. The officer took the passport and, with Gelderloos following, walked to the police station, where Gelderloos learned he was under arrest. PREJUDICE OR JUSTICE? father, Duane Gelderloos, said worried that his son will not get a fair hearing, in part because of anti-American sentiment across the world. Peter supporters organized a series of phone-call protests to the Spanish Embassy in Washington in late June, said Tariq Khan, his friend.

Gelderloos acknowledged his beliefs are unorthodox. In 2002 he was sentenced to six months for trespassing at a Georgia military base as part of a protest. been active in radical groups. He wrote a book that doubts the effectiveness of nonviolent resistance. But he said his views mean he acted violently in Barcelona.

He believes his arrest highlights a broader issue of aggressive police tactics in Spain. The U.S. Consulate in Barcelona declined to comment, citing privacy rules. Associated Press writer Daniel Woolls contributed to this report from Madrid. BY MATTHEW BARAKAT THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MCLEAN Peter Gelderloos would admit not your typical American tourist.

While other Americans in Barcelona, Spain, might be hopping between tapas bars, he was hanging out at a rights protest. But police in Barcelona say he was more than an innocent bystander. They charged him with public disorder and illegal demonstration. They say he had an instigating role in a protest that got out of control. He faces up to six years in prison if convicted, an unusually stiff penalty spurred by the conclusion the explosion of a massive firecracker.

Gelderloos, 25, of Vienna, says the charges are ridiculous. He says he barely knew the protesters and could not have helped organize or lead it. He believes his political views he is an anarchist who sometimes dresses the part caused police suspicion. DIFFERENT ACCOUNTS Gelderloos is free on bond XXSTATEXX 757-838-5900 Custom Designed Piers Bulkheads Licensed Insured ROYER Boat Houses Lifts Repairs 205554218 2 05 2 5 1 6 2 0 Donate Your Auto RUNNINGORNOT Helpingveteransandtheirfamiliesnavigatethesystemsince1978 TRUCKSVANSRVSBOATSTRAILERSREALESTATELOTS www.nvsf.org TOLLFREE 800 245 7996 FREEPICKUP WeDoAllPaperwork TaxDeduction Ref i SAVE OVER REPLACEMENT! Miracle Method Refinishes Tubs, Tile, Countertops, Vanities, Showers, Chips and Cracks for less than half the priceand half the time of replacement! See our work at www.miraclemethod.com Contact your local office at 888-992-6222 2 05550 7 08 Worried about bills and losses? We help accident victims everyday, and do so with experience, commitment, and hard work. We want you to receive the compensation you deserve.

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BY LAWRENCE LATANE III RICHMOND TIMES-DISPATCH STEVENSVILLE Steve and Mary Lou Haase take it anymore. After 15 years of living under the thunderous approach path of the busy Oceana Air Station in Virginia Beach, they fled to the quiet of the rural countryside: They moved 85 miles away to King and Queen County. Now, six years, one orchard, one garden, one yard full of herbs and a lifestyle transformation later, the couple have learned a troubling fact. Oceana pilots might be following them. Their remote house and property is right in the middle of one of 10 tracts that Gov.

Timothy M. administration suggested the Navy should consider as a practice landing field. The Haases are reeling from the irony. Their new home is four miles down a state-maintained gravel road 10 miles off U.S. 360.

Bobwhite quail scoot across the gravel in front of the GMC Envoy when they drive home. They never expected anything but peace and quiet. heard of Wilmer Steve Haase asked, referring to the Virginian whose Manassas farm became a battlefield at the beginning of the Civil War. McLean moved his family to Appomattox Courthouse to escape the slaughter. Four years later, the war returned when Confederate Gen.

Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union forces in front parlor. think I know how McLean Steve said. The second-closest neighbors are Mark and Heather Miller, who live on a sprawling farm more than a mile away. real said Mark Miller, a grain farmer and houndsman.

He seems to know all 7,000 King and Queen residents. is probably a prime locality for the Navy because there are less people here to deal he said. He fears he and his wife and two sons will lose the house and farm they bought in 1986, along with their rural ways and farm- based living. where most people want to Miller said as he surveyed hundreds of acres of unbroken farmland and forest from his front yard. where else would we find something comparable to Heather asked.

RESISTING AIRSTRIP is adamantly opposed to said Supervisor Doris Morris, who represents the Stevensville District. It contains the 20,000 acres proffered as an airstrip. majority of the people in King and Queen support the Morris said, not when you wipe out 20,000 Any land the Navy owns would not be taxable, reducing county ability to support itself and pay for services, she added. One sign of King and opposition is the fact that the county has not invited anyone from the office to explain the proposal. the only county not to have extended such an invitation, said Bob Crouch, assistant to the governor for commonwealth preparedness.

office compiled the site list last month when the search for a landing field mired in North Carolina. In addition to the King and Queen site, it identified three locations in Surry County, three sites in Southampton County, one in Sussex County and another that straddles Sussex and Southampton. The Southampton Board of Supervisors voted unanimously against hosting the landing field last month after hundreds of residents voiced their opposition. The Navy is looking for remote, rural property to build a landing strip for Oceana pilots to practice aircraft-carrier landings in Super Hornet jets. It needs to buy at least 2,000 acres for an runway and would want to buy or control through easements more than 20,000 surrounding acres as a buffer, said U.S.

Fleet Forces Command spokesman Ted Brown. Farming and forestry would be permitted in the buffer. The practice field, called an outlying landing field, or OLF, is urgent Brown said. The Navy said the field would receive 13,600 practice-landing flights a year, most of them at night. Crouch said Virginia joined the land hunt in deference to the Navy.

an important economic he said. From left, Mark Miller, Todd Miller, Heather Miller, Mary Lou Haase and Steve Haase are shown in the yard in King and Queen County on Aug. 9. Mark Miller fears his family will lose the house and farm they bought in 1986. RICHMOND TIMES-DISPATCH PHOTO.