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Kronologi over fredssagen og international politik 10. August 2006 / Timeline August 10, 2006
Version 3.59. August 2006, 11. August 2006
08/10/2006
Fredsaktivister arresteret ved lufthavnen Prestwick
Af Coilín ÓhAiseadha
Fem fredsaktivister blev natten til mandag arresteret ved den
civile lufthavn Prestwick i Skotland, efter de var gået
ombord på et amerikansk militærfly for at lede efter
beviser på, at det amerikanske militær anvender
lufthavnen til at transportere bomber til Israel. De fem er Ludwig
Appeltans fra Belgien, Richard McKean, Joe McLoughlin og Pippa
Robertson fra Skotland og Anna-Linnéa Rundberg fra
Ålandøerne i Finland.
Otte mennesker var allerede blevet arresteret efter tre aktivister
natten til søndag var gået ombord på et lignende
amerikansk militærfly ved samme lufthavn.
Den skotske gruppe Trident Ploughshares påstår, at i
alt 17 personer er blevet arresteret i løbet af de sidste
dage i forbindelse med deres "våbeninspektioner" ved
lufthavnen Prestwick.
Læs rapporter nedenfor.
Kommentar:
Sikkerheden ved den skotske lufthavn Prestwick er åbenbart
lige så dårlig som den er ved lufthavnen Shannon i
Vestirland, hvor fem aktivister blev arresteret natten til den 3.
februar 2003, efter de havde banket på et amerikansk
militærfly med en hammer og en ryddehakke.
Disse fem blev den 25. juli i år frikendt efter
nødretsprincippet, da juryen var overbevist om, at de
handlede for at beskytte menneskeliv i Irak.
De fem handlede blot fem dage efter, at en irsk kvinde havde banket
med en økse på samme fly ved samme lufthavn. Hun blev
også i sidste ende løsladt, da juryen var uenig om,
hvorvidt hun skulle frikendes eller ej.
Plovjernsaktivisten Ciaron O'Reilly planlægger nu yderligere
ikkevoldelige indgreb ved lufthavnen Shannon, hvis den irske
regering ikke sætter en stopper for mellemlandinger af civile
fly, som transporterer amerikanske tropper til og fra Irak.
Press Releases & Updates 2006
8th August 2006
Third Strike for Prestwick as Weapons Inspectors Again Gain Access
to US Military Plane
Hot on the heels of three Trident Ploughshares Weapons Detectives
getting into a US Air Force plane on Monday, another team, also
searching for evidence of War Crimes, got into another US military
plane at Prestwick in the early hours of this morning.
http://www.tridentploughshares.org/prestwick/InternationalWeaponsInspectors.jpeg
Five arrested over latest airport security breech
Aug 8, 2006, 7:48 GMT
Five people have been arrested after anti-war protestors boarded a
US military plane at Prestwick airport, according to press
reports.
In the third breech of security at the Scottish airport in just
four days, the campaign group Trident Ploughshares claimed that a
group of its activists boarded a US Air National Guard plane at
Prestwick in the early hours of this morning.
http://tinyurl.com/g8sbu
Frikendt for at smadre militærfly
http://tinyurl.com/nksbb
08/10/2006
Israel, North, direct action against the war in Lebanon
By: WRI
Antiauthoritarian anticapitalist direct action initiative made its
point to day. It was mentioned by the main radio news channel, it
was also in electronic media.
Pictures from Direct action against the war, Ramat David Israeli
Air Forces base, 8/8/06,
Israel at www.flickr.com/photos/activestills - Hebrew article at
and also
http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-3288042,00.html
as translated below: PROTEST - Jonathan Polak: "This is a war of
choice"...
12 activists of the left were arrested in demonstration in front of
the air force base. About 25 activists stood this morning (Tuesday)
in front the Ramat David base carrying placards on which was
written: "stop killing of civilians", "stop the war crimes". They
called for immediate cease fire and releasing all the prisoners and
war prisoners.
They were confronted by police and 12 were arrested. Hagay Matar:
"from this base fly daily pilots who murder innocent citizens.
Instead of arresting the war criminals, the police decided to
transform us to criminals" [Hagai with 4 others were sentenced to
more than two years in prison and served it till about a year ago
for refusing to serve the mandatory 3 years of in the Israeli army
nearly all 18 years olds are subject to.]
The demonstration was without permit, and police force who came
from the near by town Migdal Haemek police station arrested 12 of
the demonstrators who confronted them on the suspicion of
disturbing the public order, obstructing traffic, and unlawful
demonstration.
One of the arrested demonstration - Jonathan Polak, who was
arrested too during that activity told YNET that the the demo near
the air force base is because: "this base is responsible for war
crimes - airplanes that take of this base drop bombs on civilians."
He added "according to law we must stop these war crime - otherwise
we will be regarded as accomplices to these crimes". He added that
the war in Lebanon is a war of choice that must be stopped. "This
is a war of choice that have no connection to the kidnapped
soldiers or the efforts to release them' this war is part of the
efforts to redesign the middle East.
Hagai Matar, activist of the comity against war crimes who
demonstrated too, said: "We came to block the war crimes initiated
daily from this place by pilots who murder innocent citizens and
destroy infrastructure. We totally object to inflicting harm to
citizens of both sides. The Israeli army go to war that also harm
us - the Israeli society". About the arrest Matar said: " we lied
down on the road and blocked the entrance to the base. When the
police came we told them to arrest the war criminals, but they
chose to transform us to criminals and arrested us". The police
informed that the suspects will be interrogated and will be brought
to court for extension of the arrest period.
08/10/2006
CONTRACTS from the United States Department of Defense
The Boeing Company, Anaheim, Calif., is being awarded a $13,700,192
modification under previously awarded cost-plus-incentive-fee,
cost-plus-fixed-fee contract (N00030-05-C-0063) to definitize a
letter contract previously announced in the amount of $10,648,500.
The definitized value is $14,022,238 for TRIDENT II (D5) Subsystem
Fiber Optic Gyro (FOG) and Fiber Optic Gyro Navigator (FOGN) design
investigations. The contract includes additional work for FOG and
FOGN requirement specification studies and test capability
development in the amount of 10,326,454 which increases the
cumulative contract value to $24,348,692. Work will be performed in
Anaheim, Calif., and is expected to be completed by August 2007.
Contract funds will not expire by the end of the current fiscal
year. This contract was not competitively procured. The Navy's
Strategic Systems Programs, Arlington, Va., is the contracting
activity (Mod No. PZ0001).
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