UK Iraq Newswire Archive
US War Crimes in Iraq on Trial in Bristol Crown Court, Monday 14 May 2007
09-05-2007 13:23
War crimes in Iraq highlighted at retrial of peace activists, Bristol Crown Court Monday 14 May 2007Photo-opportunity
Philip Pritchard and Toby Olditch, two Oxford peace activists known at the 'B52 Two', will be retried on the morning of Monday 14 May 2007, not before 10 am, at Bristol Crown Court.. They are accused of conspiring to cause criminal damage at RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire on 18 March 2003 when they tried to safely disable B52 bombers to prevent them from bombing Iraq[1]. The two men say they acted to prevent damage to life and property in Iraq, and war crimes by the aggressors[2].
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Iraqi Oil Workers to Strike Over Privatisation Law
08-05-2007 21:54
Iraq's largest oil workers' trade union will strike this Thursday, in protest at the controversial oil law currently being considered by the Iraqi parliament. The move threatens to stop all exports from the oil-rich country.Transylvanian Politics
06-05-2007 23:51
In Romania the middle class is working itself literally to death and parliament is busy impeaching the democratically elected president for charges that no one can figure out. It's a real Eastern European B movie playing out, but you should be paying attention because it could affect the stability of the European Union and an ally in Iraq.IRAQ: Terrorizing a Nation into Homelessness: Who is Responsible?
06-05-2007 10:12
Last January, the municipality of Baghdad published a short advertisement calling tenders to bid on burying the tens of "unidentified" bodies found in the streets of the capital every morning for almost a year now. Few months before, the Iraqi ministry of Health proudly declared that it imported two big refrigerators with a capacity of 2 hundred bodies each, to keep those "unidentified" bodies. At the same time a new very big "state" graveyard was created to bury the bodies, after giving them numbers and taking their pictures , just in case one day a family would be lucky enough to identify a son, a husband, or a father…Isn't the Queen a war criminal too?
03-05-2007 20:41
The queen to meet bushMOD Admits Photograph Falsely Identified Location of UK/Iranian Incident
03-05-2007 15:17
Its been a few weeks now since the end of the maritime border incident, which involved the arrest of 15 British military personnel by Iran, a diplomatic crisis and their subsequent release. In April, we posted [
http://craigmurrayfriends.blogspot.com/2007/04/british-mod-issued-two-different.html ] on the puzzling observation that the UK Ministry of Defence had provided two different sets of position coordinates to fix the site of the incident, and thereby prove that it occurred in Iraqi waters.
Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio
03-05-2007 12:24
May 4th, 2007 will be the 37th year since the Kent State, Ohio, massacre where four anti-war protesters were killed by Ohio National Guardsmen during a protest against Richard Nixon’s announced escalation in Vietnam.There is no plan to leave Iraq
03-05-2007 10:14
Why there was no exit planBy Lewis Seiler, Dan Hamburg
There are people in Washington ... who never intend to withdraw military forces from Iraq and they're looking for 10, 20, 50 years in the future ... the reason that we went into Iraq was to establish a permanent military base in the Gulf region, and I have never heard any of our leaders say that they would commit themselves to the Iraqi people that 10 years from now there will be no military bases of the United States in Iraq. -- former President Jimmy Carter, Feb. 3, 2006
Wolfowitz and Gonzonles: Dead Men Walking
03-05-2007 03:39
When they're being written about in the tabloid advice columns, then you know that they're dead.The Symphony, 2007
02-05-2007 17:07
Trapped and going down on the PEQUOD with BUSH as AHAB (insult to Ahab).Shell AGM Protest: Tell Shell - Hands Off Iraqi Oil
02-05-2007 16:29
Shell has been steering the agenda for de-facto oil privatization in Iraq. Shell has been active in shaping Iraqi oil policy throughout the occupation, including influencing the controversial oil law. Shell saw the draft law in July 2006 - more than 7 months before most Iraqi MPs. Most Iraqis want a say in how their oil is developed. Most are rejecting the occupation pushed agendas of de-facto oil privatisation which exploit the situation of every-day terror and violence in Iraq.London Catholic Priest Jailed for Anti-War protest
02-05-2007 13:20
Fr Martin Newell from the London Catholic Worker sentenced to 14 days for non-payment of fine for anti-war protest in December 04Occupied Iraq: Something about "Liberation"...
02-05-2007 01:16
Never has a "liberation" managed to generate so many death mercenaries and contractors being paid up to 5'000 dollars a day with the sole aim of exterminating...and "pacifying".Never has a country been so openly plundered and pillaged right in front of everyone's eyes and to the utter silence of its spectators...
War criminal Bush vetoes Iraq withdrawal Bill
01-05-2007 23:35
Ex-CIA director Tenet admits lies told on war
01-05-2007 14:51
With the publication of his new memoir, At the Center of the Storm, released Monday, and in an appearance on the CBS television new program “60 Minutes” the night before, former CIA director George Tenet has become the latest former official to admit publicly that the Bush administration launched its war against Iraq based upon false pretenses and manipulated intelligence.UK Refuses Entry to Lancet Iraq Death Toll Study Author
01-05-2007 11:02
Smash EDO Public Meeting 23rd May
01-05-2007 09:19
A public meeting of local and national activists fighting the armstrade
WEDNESDAY 23RD MAY, 7.30 - 9.30pm at the Brighthelm Centre, North
Street. BRIGHTON.
Community flags retroactive federal election boycott to stop Howard profits
01-05-2007 03:25
Something about "Liberation"...
30-04-2007 23:41
There is not one person I know who has not been affected and whose life has not been altered, read - forever changed by so much "liberation".You don't even have to be an Iraqi. This "liberation" has served as a perfect mirror reflecting the moral bankruptcy of some and the resilience of others...
Those who are faithful to Iraq - the concept of it - (now we are talking about concepts since the Reality of what was Iraq is something of the past!), those who are close to Iraq in spirit and mind lose sleep too...
Corporate Media Ignores Durbin’s Admission Iraq Invasion was Predicated on Lies
29-04-2007 16:53
Sworn to secrecy and responsible for the murder of nearly a million Iraqis and three thousand, possibly ten thousand U.S. soldiers, thus making not only Mr. Durbin a war criminal but the whole of Congress. Senators John D. Rockefeller IV and Carl Levin, members of the same intelligence committee as Durbin, are at the head of the war criminal list, right after Bush, Cheney and the neocons, because these “two Democrats said publicly before the war that Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein was intent on pursuing nuclear weapons,” that it to say they had the same information as Durbin.