News Flash - brutal police thugs set dogs on protestors to protect the war machine and British oil interests.

A group of ten people from Oxford wearing white overalls
marked "UN Weapons Inspector" climbed into the base
using ladders + carpet, and were rounded up and escorted
out (minus ladders, of course).

Later, three of them managed to get back in, over the wire, and were released at the main gate.

Fairford is quite easy to get into, and at this stage
it seems people are being 'escorted' out rather than
arrested - we should be taking advantage of this! :)

It's *Fairford* BTW

A number of our officers succesfully managed to enter Fairfield Base, but were met with complete non-compliance by the authorities. Time is running out for Colin Powell. If he continues to hinder further weapons inspections, we will be left with no other option than civil disobedience on a massive scale.

:)
It was feckin' excellent.
After the main demo and the rattling of the gates by the 'inspectors' and some great theatre outside the main entrance to the base a fair ammount of people wandered around the corner to see if they could get in for real.
As one protestor was climbing over the barbed wire at the top of the fence another was cutting a hole at the bottom.
I reckon more than thirty of us streamed through the gap and ran amock in the base staging our own weapons inspection.
As the poster above said, the cops called the dogs out in the end and ejected almost everyone from the grounds without arrest.
At least one guy was later (quite violently) arrested, and I heard two others also got taken away. Despite attempts to de-arrest this one guy he was taken to cirencester nick.
Many protestors were thrown to the floor/trampled/pushed/punched or gouged by a particularly zealous group of her maj's finest (thankfully nobody was seriously hurt).
The ease with which we all got in and the fact that we totally outnumbered the cops was quite surprising.
Just imagine if a couple of hundred could get in next time and go poking around the bombers...
The demo is becoming a weekly fixture with CND taking over the organisation of it. It's worth building for a more sustained campaign of NVDA at the base.

PS Please... if anyone's got a video of the peeps running around inside then getting ejected, then post it on the site. I'd love to see it.

:)

Here is a link to a short video of some of the highlights that I caught on camera. A more polished screening version will be available.

It's just over seven minutes long and weights in at around 12mb in MPG4 format. Enjoy!



P.S. Whoeever wrote the 'newsflash' - would you like to explain a little more about the incident in which you claim that police dogs were set on protesters. Nobody else seems to know anything about it and it would be horrible if people thought that people posted lies and exagerations on indymedia as well as in the corporate media.

 http://uk.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=51601&group=webcast

 http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20030127/ap_on_re_eu/britain_iraq_protest_1

 http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-2353143,00.html

 http://www.ctnow.com/news/custom/newsat3/sns-ap-britain-iraq-protest0127jan26,0,1440802.story?coll=hc-headlines-newsat3

 http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/wire/sns-ap-britain-iraq-protest0127jan26,0,2519213.story?coll=sns-ap-world-headlines

 http://www.austin360.com/aas/news/ap/ap_story.html/Intl/AP.V9837.AP-Britain-Iraq-Pr.html

 http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030126&Category=API&ArtNo=301260854&Ref=AR

 http://abcnews.go.com/wire/World/ap20030126_1545.html

 http://www.kfoxtv.com/news/ap_story.html/Intl/AP.V9837.AP-Britain-Iraq-Pr.html

 http://www.bayarea.com/mld/cctimes/5038359.htm

 http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/world/5038359.htm

 http://www.nj.com/newsflash/international/index.ssf?/cgi-free/getstory_ssf.cgi?a0627_BC_Britain-Iraq-Protest&&news&newsflash-international

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 http://www.citycomment.co.uk/nieuws/nieuws_artikel.asp?iNewsID=476190&bRT=False

 http://www.canoe.ca/WorldTicker/CANOE-wire.Britain-Iraq-Protest

 http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,5895819%5E1702,00.html

 http://www.ndtv.com/template/template.asp?template=Usiraqconfrontation&slug=Hundreds+rally+against+attack+on+Iraq&id=34479&callid=1

Yeah there were police dogs used - 2 of them.

In the scuffle following the first violent arrest police were forced to drag the handcuffed person through the hole in the fence which people had cut! This was pretty fucking dangerous cos it was a small opening with many sharp edges.

People were sitting down around this hole and when trampling, kicks and truncheons failed to cop dogs were brought in to clear the space.

They were really cute and looked quite pet-able, also IQ tests showed they were more intelligent than their handlers.

As one of the protesters who entered Fairford and was then thrown back out through "our" hole in the fence, I can state that when we were inside, the police set dogs onto us in order to stop us running around the base as they (the police) weren't fit enough or interested enough to run over the grass to catch us, and wouldn't risk getting their nice 4x4's muddied up by driving across the grass. The cop who stopped about five of us had a dog whose name apparently was "Bodycount" (and I doubt if it was named after Ice-T's metal band...:-)). The cop was hugely aggressive, promising that if we moved an inch we would be "stitched" by the dog... I didn't see the dog carrying a needle and thread, so I suppose what the boy in blue meant was that we would be needing stitched... and that was only the prelude to the real violence when they went in to arrest... so, no lies on Indymedia, OK?