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dissenter | 17.04.2003 22:01

Does anyone know if an up-to-date list exists of locations in Britain where arms are manufactured, and administrative offices of arms traders and manufacturers? I know Glascoed in South Wales has been targetted by direct activists, but we all need to be aware of where these murderous cluster bomblets etc are coming from, and strike at the root.

Although marches and rallies are important at one level to consolidate the anti-war movement, surely the actual locations where these munitions are made and organised from need to be mass targeted for blockades, etc?
A definitive list, if available, would be valuable - and should be widely disseminated.
I read an article in the Guardian a few weeks ago which claimed a warehouse full of munitions had been discovered in Iraq, with crates stamped Middle Wallop 2002 on them (Middle Wallop is in Hampshire). But the story disappeared without trace.
Any suggestions on how to find such a list would be appreciated . . .
By the way, a brilliant article on the worldwide anti-privatisation of electricity and utilities has appeared in this week's Big Issue.

dissenter

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More info

17.04.2003 22:45


Here's some more info about the detonators:

"Near Basra, British troops found detonator fuses in boxes labelled Wallop Industries Ltd, Middle Wallop, Hampshire."
( http://www.marxist.com/Europe/soc_app_edit0403.html)

It seems that the company is now called "Wallop Defence Systems Division"
 http://www.wallop-defence.com/contactUs.asp

This in the UK division of "FR Countermeasures"
 http://www.frcountermeasures.com/

This is in turn a subsidiary of "Flight Refuelling Limited"
 http://www.flight-ref.com/contactUs.htm
(FLIGHT REFUELLING LIMITED, BROOK ROAD, WIMBORNE, DORSET
BH21 2BJ)

That company's parent company is Cobham PLC
 http://www.cobham.com/

Previous Names of Cobham PLC:
07/11/1994 FR GROUP PLC.
01/01/1986 FLIGHT REFUELLING (HOLDINGS) PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY

Here are the 8 directors of Flight Refuelling Limited. Perhaps someone would like to ask them why their products were sold to Iraq?


Current Appointments

Number of current appointments : 8

Company Secretary: FRENCH, WAYNE IAN
Appointed: 27/11/1995 Date of Birth: 28/05/1957
Nationality: BRITISH
No. of Company Appointments: 31
Address:
3 OAKFIELDS
ALLBROOK
EASTLEIGH
HAMPSHIRE
SO50 4RP

Director: CLARK, ROBIN HARTLEY LEDGERD
Appointed: pre20/06/1992 Date of Birth: 25/08/1945
Nationality: BRITISH
No. of Company Appointments: 20
Address:
GLEBE COTTAGE
ROCKBOURNE
FORDINGBRIDGE
HAMPSHIRE
SP6 3NA

Director: COOK, ALLAN EDWARD
Appointed: 26/03/2001 Date of Birth: 27/09/1949
Nationality: BRITISH
No. of Company Appointments: 11
Address:
154 GOLF LINKS ROAD
FERNDOWN
DORSET
BH22 8DA

Director: FRENCH, WAYNE IAN
Appointed: 14/11/1994 Date of Birth: 28/05/1957
Nationality: BRITISH
No. of Company Appointments: 31
Address:
3 OAKFIELDS
ALLBROOK
EASTLEIGH
HAMPSHIRE
SO50 4RP

Director: IRWIN, ALASTAIR GILES, FCA
Appointed: pre20/06/1992 Date of Birth: 27/07/1943
Nationality: BRITISH
No. of Company Appointments: 34
Address:
STANBRIDGE HOUSE
STANBRIDGE
WIMBORNE
DORSET
BH21 4JD

Director: SMITH, BRIAN JOHN
Appointed: 01/01/1998 Date of Birth: 19/01/1948
Nationality: BRITISH
No. of Company Appointments: 4
Address:
10 NORTHLANDS HOUSE
SALTHILL ROAD FISHBOURNE
CHICHESTER
WEST SUSSEX
PO19 3PY

Director: TURNER, PETER SCOTT
Appointed: 01/01/1996 Date of Birth: 23/08/1943
Nationality: BRITISH
No. of Company Appointments: 1
Address:
30 DORSET LAKE AVENUE
LILLIPUT
POOLE
DORSET
BH14 8JD

Director: TYSON, JOHN RICHARD
Appointed: 24/03/2003 Date of Birth: 31/10/1970
Nationality: BRITISH
No. of Company Appointments: 1
Address:
3 BARRACK LANE
THE PARK
NOTTINGHAM
NOTTINGHAMSHIRE
NG7 1AN

no-war


British-made cluster bombs

18.04.2003 08:49

Uk-made cluster bombs are made by Hunting Engineering Ltd, Reddings Wood, Ampthill,Bedford. These bombs were used during the Kosovo war but I think the cluster bombs used in Iraq were made in Israel

Giulia


some recent links

18.04.2003 09:40

 http://www.observer.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12239,930979,00.html

 http://www.caat.org.uk/links/companies.php

Take care.
This is big money. UK's major exporter...income earner.
DO NOT TRUST ANYONE EASILY.

CATT has a forum and possibly there is still a mialing list.

Also note that there seems to be even questions in the Hansard that were answered and are either censored or or the 'honourable pigs' never answered them.

ram


Iraq Gate

18.04.2003 09:59

People have been asasinated over this while hundreds of thousands have been killed like flies.

 http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/1996/223/223p22.htm

The pig Richard Scott adimts to himself being "a member of the establishment myself" ...if anyone coould get to the source of this statement please post here.

Matrix-Churchill's equipment were the ones that delivered the WMDs into the heart of Iran from 1982-till Halabja in 1988?
Halabja wasa joke when compared to the killings in Iran.

Again 'watch out'! and work as a team keeping close contact with others all the time.

ram


Try this one for a laugh...

20.04.2003 22:20

www.disarm-trade.org

There is a good list from the September 11 2001 DSEi exhibition on there...
Also, you might just figure out what really went on when they told us about that bloke in a cave...

Dumpster