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Kronologi over fredssagen og international politik 12. Mars 2003 / Time Line March 12, 2003
Version 3.503/12/2003
Ulla Røder
Confirms Leuchars Tornado "Out of Action"
Today Trident Ploughshares activist Ulla Røder confirmed
that the Tornado jet which she damaged yesterday at Leuchars
airbase is unlikely to fly again.
Ulla (48), from Odense in Denmark, but currently living in
Scotland, described how she went into a hangar at the Fife airbase
and discovered the plane completely unguarded. She said: “I
took my hammer to the nose-cone, the cockpit, the fuselage, the
wings, the tailplane and other parts of the plane which it was safe
to damage. I don’t see it flying again. I then sat down and
waited for the security people to arrive. When the police came
everything was calm and relaxed.” She is in good spirits and
pleased that this particular aircraft will not be dropping bombs on
innocent people in Iraq.
This morning Ulla appeared at private
hearing at Cupar Sheriff Court and was remanded to Cornton Vale
Prison in Stirling on petition until another hearing takes place
next Thursday. Currently the charge against her is one of criminal
damage. Until investigations are complete the cost of the damage
will not be known but may run to over £1 million.
A Trident Ploughshares spokesperson said: "Ulla’s action
gives a huge lift to the anti-war movement and will inspire other
peaceful and nonviolent acts to put a spoke in the wheel of the
Blair war machine."
Ulla is well known as one of the Trident Three who were acquitted
by a Scottish court after damaging the Trident research barge
Maytime in 1999. She
has served several prison terms for anti-Trident submarines
actions.
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