A driver mowed down crosses bearing the names of US soldiers killed in Iraq in the latest act opposing peace activists outside President George W. Bush's ranch, the demonstrators said Tuesday.
In the dark late Monday, the driver of the sports utility truck went onto the grassy side of the road to knock down the crosses which had been placed by activists supporting Cindy Sheehan, whose campaign against the Iraq war has drawn widespread publicity.
According to participants in the peace camp set up less than a kilometre (half a mile) from the entrance to Bush's ranch, the driver was detained by police and could face charges.
"He did not yell anything, he did not say anything, he just ran his truck over the crosses," said Charlie Anderson, a former US soldier in Iraq who has joined the activists.
On Tuesday morning, some of the crosses were still flattened or broken in the grass. The activists replaced some.
Sheehan, whose son was killed in Iraq, set up the camp outside Bush's Prairie Chapel ranch about 10 days ago to call for the 138,000 US soldiers in Iraq to be brought home and demand a meeting with the president.