USAF Fairford broken into
Justan Dooit | 16.12.2002 12:58
On saturday, anti-war ctivists from across the country converged on US airforce base Fairford in Oxfordshire. A colourful 200-250 strong demo involving automous weapons inspectors, puppets and death vs peace flags, marched on the base. Upon arrival demonstrators split off into small groups to investigate the perimeter fence and suss out potential points of entry.
Fairford will be used to deploy B2 bombers and stealth bombers to carpet bomb Iraq in the event of war. It's the only base in Europe which will be deploying the aircraft due to its long runways and the face that locations in other countries - Spain and Germany were considered to risky for fear of local opposition.
Around 10-15 activists managed to break through the perimeter fence, vault over a smaller inside fence and make for the main hangars and depot before scattering, climbing up onto tall metal containers and finally being aprhended by police. Noone was arrested, and those aprehened were simply escorted from the base. Despite no damage being caused to equipment inside ): the action proved that the base could be entered with relative ease.
Fairford will be used to deploy B2 bombers and stealth bombers to carpet bomb Iraq in the event of war. It's the only base in Europe which will be deploying the aircraft due to its long runways and the face that locations in other countries - Spain and Germany were considered to risky for fear of local opposition.
Around 10-15 activists managed to break through the perimeter fence, vault over a smaller inside fence and make for the main hangars and depot before scattering, climbing up onto tall metal containers and finally being aprhended by police. Noone was arrested, and those aprehened were simply escorted from the base. Despite no damage being caused to equipment inside ): the action proved that the base could be entered with relative ease.
Justan Dooit
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