UK Iraq Newswire Archive
SOCPA - chris coverdale arrested for non-payment of fines
02-04-2008 16:40
chris coverdale was arrested earlier today at his home in wimbledon for non-payment of fines imposed for a previous SOCPA unauthorised demonstration offence. he is being held overnight at wimbledon police station and will apear at the local court tomorrow morning.Depleted Uranium... is radiating our soldiers equal to treason?
02-04-2008 10:03
I found the cavalier attitude quite shocking, to say the least.
you decide...
Beyond the Green Zone
01-04-2008 23:52
Dahr Jamail, one of the few independent, unembedded U.S. journalists covering Iraq speaks in U.K. and Ireland. As John Pilger writes of Jamail, "While so much reporting from Iraq has remained embedded and wrong, Dahr Jamail's courageous truth-telling from the frontline has been a beacon."Emergency Basra Protest at Downing Street, Wednesday 2pm
01-04-2008 22:28
Emergency Protest Against Attack on Basra this Wednesday - Downing StreetSTOP THE ATTACKS - END THE OCCUPATION - NO BLOOD FOR OIL
Emergency Picket
Wednesday 2 April
2-4pm, Downing Street
Protest against Iraqi, US and British military occupation action
World Against War National Rally - full report - videos, mp3s, photos
31-03-2008 17:34
As Basra burns, Iraq inquiry call supported by just 12 Labour MPs
31-03-2008 14:57
As Iraq’s puppet army launched its bloody assault on Basra on March 25, Britain’s parliament once again rejected an inquiry into the Iraq war.Repeated US air strikes in Basra and Baghdad
31-03-2008 14:13
Hundreds of people have died in six days of fierce fighting as the US puppet regime in Baghdad has sought to stamp its control over the port city of Basra, centre of Iraq’s southern oil fields. As operations by some 30,000 Iraqi security personnel stalled, US and British air strikes repeatedly hit densely populated areas of Basra, as well as other strongholds of supporters of Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr in Baghdad and southern towns and cities.Sounding Out Tony Blair
31-03-2008 13:13
SOUNDING OUT BLAIR: Westminster Cathedral : 42 Francis Street: London SW1Thursday 3 April 2008 at 7.00 pm (assemble from 6.30 pm)
SOCPA: The GLA's campaign against Brian Haw
30-03-2008 19:03
Having failed to get rid of Brian Haw by force (see:
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/09/382323.html http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/10/383843.html ) the Greater London Authority is trying again by legislation, their responses to the government consultation 'Managing Protest around Parliament' all seem to be aimed at getting rid of the peace camp. And the government agrees with them, SOCrAP isn't buried yet and they're already robbing its corpse. Time for a protest outside City Hall?
UK government deports 60 Iraqi Kurds; no one notices
30-03-2008 16:53
Andy Worthington reports on the forced deportation of 60 Iraqi Kurds from the UK last Thursday, which has not been reported in any major media outlets at all.The "imperial project" hangs by a thread
30-03-2008 15:30
"The only real power the US holds in this situation is to divide and conquer. That’s a position of extreme weakness.""Nouri al Maliki, at the behest of his American masters, has thrown the new Army of the Republic of Vietnam against the militias of the most powerful and cohesive popular movement in Iraq, that of Muqtada al Sadr. By all accounts, even with their American advisers, tactical air and intelligence support, this operation appears to be a stupendous failure; the Mehdi Army of Sadr is reported to be routing the Iraqi “government” forces at every turn."
"The same US press, which has parroted the absurd claims of “surge success” for months now, a success that was based on successful ethnic cleansing in Baghdad combined with the Mehdi Army’s ceasefire, will now have to tie itself in rhetorical knots to explain how this success is now adrift in the columns of black smoke rising from one of the two main oil pipelines passing through the port-transit city of Basra, and why rocket-propelled grenades and mortar rounds are splashing onto the Green Zone like a storm."
"Now the US has plunged the knife into the back of even the obedient Kurds, allowing Turkish forces to rampage through Iraqi Kurdistan. The list of allies is shrinking; and the myth of “surge-success” evaporates."
The sieges of Basra and Sadr City: another US war crime in Iraq
29-03-2008 22:38
US fighter planes and helicopter gunships struck the southern Iraqi city of Basra and the teeming slums of Baghdad’s Sadr City with bombs and missiles Friday as the offensive launched by Iraqi puppet troops against the Mahdi Army, the Shia militia loyal to Muqtada al Sadr, faltered badly.Support U.S. and Gaza Statement
29-03-2008 00:30
Yes, the Israel lobby seeks to silence opponents of Israeli Apartheid. All the more need for trade unionists to break that silence by speaking out against Israeli military occupation, for the right of Palestinian refugees to return, and for the elimination of apartheid throughout historic Palestine.UK/US backed attack on Basra aims to break popular and trade union resistance
28-03-2008 20:38
In a series of telephone calls from Basra over the past 48 hours, Iraqi trade union activists appeal for solidarity and describe how the so-called ‘Security Plan’ started midnight 24 March with intense shelling and fire from all kind of weapons.Sounding out Tony Blair
28-03-2008 18:21
Tony Blair is giving a lecture on "Faith and Globalisation" on Thursday 3 April at Westminster Cathedral. The publicity for his speech makes no mention of Iraq or Afghanistan. Join Stop the War to ensure that, as Blair speaks, the voice of the anti-war majority in this country is heard loud and clear as every hypocritical word is accompanied by a wall of sound outside the Cathedral.BP AGM Protest: BP in Iraq = 'Blatant Piracy'
28-03-2008 14:14
BP is using war and occupation and fuelling sectarian conflict by trying to control Iraqi oil for the next 30 years. We need to stop them.Whilst not the only oil company angling for long-term contracts in Iraq, Shell is too and we will target their AGM too, BP is wholly British and enmeshed with the British occupation effort and establishement.
Thats the Bad News - the Good News is that they havent got their hands on Iraqi oil yet and there is space to stop them....
On The Verge Tour - Police Harassment Backfires ;-)
27-03-2008 22:26
Join the Wall of Sound to Silence Tony Blair
27-03-2008 09:15
Join the WALL OF SOUND TO SILENCE TONY BLAIR, when he gives a lecture on"Faith and Globalisation" on Thursday 3 April at Westminster Cathedral (details below) in London.
Iraqi Resistance Report 1199
27-03-2008 00:06
Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Monday, 24 March 2008. Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice. http://www.freearabvoice.org
White House signals continued Iraq escalation as US death toll tops 4,000
25-03-2008 14:00
The White House delivered a strong signal Monday that President Bush is virtually certain to support a recommendation that the escalation of the US military intervention in Iraq continue indefinitely, despite the rising death toll among US troops.