It has emerged that two flights due to touch down at Prestwick on Saturday were diverted to the RAF Mildenhall military base in Suffolk. A third Atlas Air flight was believed to have landed at Prestwick. There has been no official confirmation of what was on board the planes. A spokesman for the US air force at RAF Mildenhall said two aircraft had been diverted from Prestwick. He said the Atlas cargo flights arrived late on Saturday night and would depart on Sunday. He could not comment on what was on board the planes, but said they were there to refuel and allow the crew to rest. A spokesman for Prestwick said the diversions meant that no such flights were due to land at the airport on Sunday. -BBC
If any of you are in Suffolk and have a camera, please try and get to Mildenhall - if you get a photo of them it will help us and you could sell it to the corporate newswires for cash, just add a lower resolution copy here too.
It is interesting having tracked this story through the media how much more information has been released today, and how much contradictory information is still being released. I can understand why Sunday newspaper journalists 'hold on to' useful information until their stories can be published, but BBC online have no such excuse. Elsewhere it is also reported Israeli military aircraft have also been landing at Prestwick over the past weeks, presumably also shipping US bombs to Israel, unless they are just shipping the newly-painted aircraft themselves. Perhaps the Israelis are planning to bomb Tipton from Prestwick - I doubt Blair would complain if they did.
Atlas Air are one of the US Civil Reserve Air Fleet and so any of their flights are targets for direct action whether the BBC information is a red-herring or not. It is interesting looking at those airlines cargo flight schedules how much of their work is to and from the middle-east both for the US and corportate work. I think peace groups should officially boycott those airlines and will be proposing this to whatever groups I know. I am aware that probably none of us use those airlines but middle-eastern businesses and governments do, and could easily be embarrassed ny a boycott into stopping using what are effectively Israeli gun-runners.
I also think we should be publicising the extra dangers anyone using Prestwick airport now faces due to it's deliberate policy of attracting explosive and politicised cargoes. I'm happy to take risks with my own life but if I really wouldn't fly from Prestwick now with any of my loved ones. The security of Prestwick is a joke. Have a look at it on GoogleMaps and you see the airport fuel tanks are about 15 feet from an unguarded perimeter fence. There is always plenty of military hardware on site including up to 11 tons of explosives as it is effectively an RAF site without RAF guards, and the CAA guards are less fit and less scary than your local supermarket security staff. It's not like Scotland hasn't suffered civilian casuality 'blow-back' from US aggression before - Lockerbie isn't too far away.
The Irish government doesn't allow US bombs to be shipped through Shannon and refused these flights - I think credit for that goes to the Shannon activists. I think the people of Scotland are now in a race to close down Prestwick peaceably before someone else closes it down forceably. It won't stop the flights though - they just reroute them to military airfields. The big question is why do we accept US gun-running but also why were they ever routed through a civilian airfield unnecessarily ?
The US Civil Reserve Air Fleet is the modern aerial equivalent of the Merchant Navy. They not only ship arms regularly but play vital roles in military offensives. For instance, their 6 Eagle Flag exercises where they build airfields from scratch on any surface for any aircraft to establish local air superiority, this is how they invade countries now. Secure an airstrip and then bomb the locals to smithereens. They have established 32 airstrips using Eagle Flag techniques since 2001, all to bomb muslims. And yet other supposedly muslim governments also employ them.
US Civil Reserve Air Fleet
Long-Range International Section:
ABX Air
Air Transport International
American Airlines
ATA Airlines
Arrow Air
Astar Air Cargo
Atlas Air
Continental Airlines
Delta Air Lines
Evergreen International
FEDEX Express Airlines
Gemini Air Cargo
Hawaiian Airlines
Kalitta Air
North American Airlines
Northwest Airlines
Omni International
Polar Air Cargo
Ryan International
Southern Air
United Airlines
United Parcel Service Airlines
US Airways
World Airways
It is interesting having tracked this story through the media how much more information has been released today, and how much contradictory information is still being released. I can understand why Sunday newspaper journalists 'hold on to' useful information until their stories can be published, but BBC online have no such excuse. Elsewhere it is also reported Israeli military aircraft have also been landing at Prestwick over the past weeks, presumably also shipping US bombs to Israel, unless they are just shipping the newly-painted aircraft themselves. Perhaps the Israelis are planning to bomb Tipton from Prestwick - I doubt Blair would complain if they did.
Atlas Air are one of the US Civil Reserve Air Fleet and so any of their flights are targets for direct action whether the BBC information is a red-herring or not. It is interesting looking at those airlines cargo flight schedules how much of their work is to and from the middle-east both for the US and corportate work. I think peace groups should officially boycott those airlines and will be proposing this to whatever groups I know. I am aware that probably none of us use those airlines but middle-eastern businesses and governments do, and could easily be embarrassed ny a boycott into stopping using what are effectively Israeli gun-runners.
I also think we should be publicising the extra dangers anyone using Prestwick airport now faces due to it's deliberate policy of attracting explosive and politicised cargoes. I'm happy to take risks with my own life but if I really wouldn't fly from Prestwick now with any of my loved ones. The security of Prestwick is a joke. Have a look at it on GoogleMaps and you see the airport fuel tanks are about 15 feet from an unguarded perimeter fence. There is always plenty of military hardware on site including up to 11 tons of explosives as it is effectively an RAF site without RAF guards, and the CAA guards are less fit and less scary than your local supermarket security staff. It's not like Scotland hasn't suffered civilian casuality 'blow-back' from US aggression before - Lockerbie isn't too far away.
The Irish government doesn't allow US bombs to be shipped through Shannon and refused these flights - I think credit for that goes to the Shannon activists. I think the people of Scotland are now in a race to close down Prestwick peaceably before someone else closes it down forceably. It won't stop the flights though - they just reroute them to military airfields. The big question is why do we accept US gun-running but also why were they ever routed through a civilian airfield unnecessarily ?
The US Civil Reserve Air Fleet is the modern aerial equivalent of the Merchant Navy. They not only ship arms regularly but play vital roles in military offensives. For instance, their 6 Eagle Flag exercises where they build airfields from scratch on any surface for any aircraft to establish local air superiority, this is how they invade countries now. Secure an airstrip and then bomb the locals to smithereens. They have established 32 airstrips using Eagle Flag techniques since 2001, all to bomb muslims. And yet other supposedly muslim governments also employ them.
US Civil Reserve Air Fleet
Long-Range International Section:
ABX Air
Air Transport International
American Airlines
ATA Airlines
Arrow Air
Astar Air Cargo
Atlas Air
Continental Airlines
Delta Air Lines
Evergreen International
FEDEX Express Airlines
Gemini Air Cargo
Hawaiian Airlines
Kalitta Air
North American Airlines
Northwest Airlines
Omni International
Polar Air Cargo
Ryan International
Southern Air
United Airlines
United Parcel Service Airlines
US Airways
World Airways
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