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Kronologi over fredssagen og international politik 31. Oktober 2004 / Time Line October 31, 2004
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Anti War Banshees Arrested at Shannon Airport
by Dublin Catholic Worker Sunday, Oct 31 2004
- http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=67254&media_type=AUDIO
Spent Up To Four Hours Undetected Beside Runway Reciting Names of US and Iraqi Dead
From The Newswire: In the early hours of Halloween, October 31st, two peace activists dressed as banshees were arrested in the confines of Shannon Airport. Zelda Jeffers and Elaine O’Sullivan, of the pacifist Catholic Worker Movement, were discovered by airport security after constructing a shrine to the war dead near the runway. The two women, wearing Iraqi mourning dress, were discovered reading out the names of U.S. military and Iraqi dead.
Elaine O’Sullivan stated: “Many of the over one thousand U.S. military dead personnel killed in Iraq would have passed through Shannon Airport on the way to their deaths. We remember them and the Iraqi people they have killed. We name Shannon Airport as a place of death – a cog in the U.S. war machine carrying out an illegal invasion and occupation of Iraq. We have come to Shannon on Halloween, the eve of ‘All Souls Day’ and the U.S. elections, to remember the dead and non-violently defend the living”.
10/31/2004
A mess of missing ordnance
In Iraq, weapons, weapons everywhere--and free for the taking
Kit R. Roane and Edward T. Pound, U.S. News 31/10/04
It came out of nowhere to dominate the final week of the
presidential campaign. But the disclosure that tons of advanced
explosives had somehow vanished from an Iraqi weapons dump came as
no surprise to David Kay. The former chief U.S. weapons inspector
says there has been looting at scores of unguarded Iraqi weapons
dumps since the American invasion. "During the fall of 2003, what
you would see was Iraqis going in at night, individually and in
trucks," Kay told U.S. News . "They would pull ordnances out and
drive off." Security was so bad after Saddam Hussein's regime fell,
Kay recalled, that his team was often shot at by insurgents when
they went to inspect the sites: "There were just not enough boots
on the ground, and the military didn't give it a high enough
priority to stop the looting. Tens of thousands of tons of
ammunition were being looted, and that is what is fueling the
insurgency."
10/31/2004
GIs Lack Armor, Radios, Bullets
CBS 2 - New York News | cbsnewyork.com
http://cbsnewyork.com/topstories/topstories_story_305195404.html
Two weeks ago, a group of Army reservists in Iraq refused a direct
order to go on a dangerous operation to re-supply another unit with
jet fuel.
Without helicopter gunships to escort them over a treacherous
stretch of highway, and lacking armored vehicles, soldiers from the
343rd Quartermaster Company called it a suicide mission.
The Army called it an isolated incident, a temporary breakdown in
discipline, and an investigation is underway.
But the 343rd isn't the first outfit to be put in harm's way
without proper equipment, and commanders in Iraq acknowledged that
the unit's concerns were legitimate, even if their mutiny was
not.
With a $400 billion defense budget you might think U.S. troops have
everything they need to fight the war, but that's not always the
case.
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