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Police arrested about a dozen protesters near US President George W. Bush's Texas ranch, including the sister of a noted opponent of the war in Iraq, witnesses said.
Among those detained near Bush's Prairie Chapel estate, where he was spending the Thanksgiving holiday, was Dede Miller, sister of Cindy Sheehan, who staged a month-long vigil outside the ranch in August, they said.
Sheehan, who met with Bush not long after her son Casey was killed in Iraq, was expected to return to Crawford later this week to resume her appeals for a second meeting to discuss her opposition to the war.
Local authorities could not immediately be reached for confirmation, but roughly a dozen people could be seen inside two police vans at one of Sheehan's protest sites.
The president traveled here Tuesday after an annual White House ritual, pardoning a turkey that might otherwise have ended up as the main course for the Thanksgiving feast.
Atop a large white tent at Sheehan's main protest site, protesters placed a banner that read: "No Pardon for Crawford's Turkey."
AFP
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