Citizen weapons inspectors from Cambridge Students Against War (CamSaw) leafletted the town of Cambridge last week and paid a visit to a University laboratory sponsored by the arms manufacturer, Qinetiq.
Qinetiq is the result of a privatization scheme under which the UK Ministry of "Defense" sold off 75% of its research arm, the Defense Evaluation Research Agency, to the Carlyle Group, which is the largest private equity group in the world. Carlyle holdsd a large portfolio of military assets, including Vought Systems, manufacturers of military aircraft components, and United Defense Industries. UDI has been awarded a $665m (£460m) contract to develop the Crusader Advanced Field Artillery System.
In the wake of the Enron scandal, the Bush administration has come under fire for the close relationship between the Carlyle Group and the administration itself. Carlyle's executive roster is a who's who of major Western state-terrorists of the past twenty years, leavened with members of elite banking circles.
A selection of the Carlyle Group executive team:
Chairman: Frank Carlucci
former Secretary of Defense to Ronald Reagan
good friend of Secretary of State Colin Powell, with whom he arranged illegal sales of missiles to Iran throughout the 1980s in order to fund the Contra terrorists attacking Nicaragua
Managing Director: Afsaneh Masheyekhi Beschloss
former treasurer and chief investment officer of the World Bank
Asia Advisor: George Bush Sr.
Europe Chairman: John Major
Senior Advisor: James Baker
former Secretary of State to George Bush Sr,
For more info on the Carlyle group, see
http://www.corpwatch.org/news/PND.jsp?articleid=1331
In the wake of the Enron scandal, the Bush administration has come under fire for the close relationship between the Carlyle Group and the administration itself. Carlyle's executive roster is a who's who of major Western state-terrorists of the past twenty years, leavened with members of elite banking circles.
A selection of the Carlyle Group executive team:
Chairman: Frank Carlucci
former Secretary of Defense to Ronald Reagan
good friend of Secretary of State Colin Powell, with whom he arranged illegal sales of missiles to Iran throughout the 1980s in order to fund the Contra terrorists attacking Nicaragua
Managing Director: Afsaneh Masheyekhi Beschloss
former treasurer and chief investment officer of the World Bank
Asia Advisor: George Bush Sr.
Europe Chairman: John Major
Senior Advisor: James Baker
former Secretary of State to George Bush Sr,
For more info on the Carlyle group, see
http://www.corpwatch.org/news/PND.jsp?articleid=1331
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To the Proctors
30.11.2002 15:35
Feel free to reply, gentlemen...
Cambridge Indymedia
Data Protection Act 1998?
01.12.2002 12:36
You needn't assume that it is the proctors who are reading your minutes (why you keep them on the web open to ordinary joes like me I don't quite understand). After all the Special Branch and various organs of the British state will be keeping an eye on you. And the Proctors are merely stepping in where in other circumstances it would be some policemen looking for trouble.
But many complements to your interviewer who certainly had the senior proctor squirming. 'So you are just following orders?' was a hilarious moment
Curious George