URGENT - Join the campaign to prevent the bombing of Iraq from RAF Fairford. The UK government has not yet (9-Dec-2002) given permission for the the US air force to bomb Iraq from RAF Fairford. So now is the time to raise this issue with your MP and with all your media contacts. Support for this war is fading by the day - let's not let our land be used to launch this unjust war.

We anticipate it is only a matter of days before the US military requests permission to use RAF Fairford as an operational base for B-2 Stealth bombers. They will likely also deploy B-1 and B-52 bombers - however the B-2 is the most advanced long range bomber in the world and the first wave of attacks on Iraq will likely be by B-2's flying from Fairford and Diego Garcia.

The MOD says the "UK Government will have to be fully consulted" before the USAF can use Fairford.

So it's time to contact your MP and ask them to make sure they're consulted on this and speak out against bombing Iraq from Britian. One easy way to do this is using the Fax Your MP website  http://www.faxyourmp.com/
If you can get to speak to them all the better.

On Friday 13th December our Chief Weapons Inspector received a letter from the MOD which states - "The UK Government will have to be fully consulted and agree before any United States Air Force aircraft are deployed operationally from any RAF base, including RAF Fairford. To date (9th Dec 2002) no request has been to activate RAF Fairford for operational purposes."

Follow this link for more details of our questions and the MOD response.

The B-2 Stealth bomber is the most advanced and most expensive bomber in the world. Costing upwards of £1.5billion each there have only ever been 21 made. Fairford has recently undergone major refurbishment at a cost of almost £100million in order to upgrade it's facilities to the standards needs for the B-2. The B-2 is nuclear capable and has been tested for use with the new generation of mini-nuke bunker busting bombs. It's quite possible the next nuclear device to be dropped will be from a B-2 flying from Fairford.

For more information see Gloucestershire Waepons Inspectors website www.gwi.org.uk