Icelanders take asset freeze protest to London

A group of Icelanders pleaded with U.K. lawmakers in London on Tuesday to unfreeze the assets of the Nordic nation's banks, saying Britain had been wrong to use anti-terror laws to freeze them last year.

Submitting a petition backed by about 80,000 Icelanders _ about a quarter of the tiny island country's population _ the delegation of Icelandic activists insisted: "We are not terrorists."

"This is an emotional issue with us," said music professor Olaf Eliasson, who helped organize the petition's delivery at London's neo-gothic Palace of Westminster, the home of Britain's Parliament. "If you do it with Iceland, you can do it with …