WASHINGTON, Sept. 26 (UPI) -- Anti-war mother Cindy Sheehan, who led protests outside President Bush's Crawford, Texas, ranch this summer, was arrested outside the White House.
Sheehan, 48, was among about a dozen protestors hauled away after they refused to end non-violent civil disobedience against the war in Iraq. Forty-one people protesting the war were arrested at the Pentagon earlier Monday on the third day of anti-war demonstration in the nation's capital, the Los Angeles Times reported.
Sheehan was a member of a small group that sat in front of the White House asking to meet with the president to present a petition calling for a U.S. troop withdrawal.
She had tied a picture of her son, Casey, who was killed in Baghdad last year, to the wrought iron fence outside the executive mansion.
Other anti-war demonstrators lobbied members of Congress on Capitol Hill to end funding for military operations in Iraq.
