UK Iraq Newswire Archive
Target Barclays - Bristol
23-01-2011 23:25
150 NGOs slam execution of Kurdish activists by Iran's islamic regime
23-01-2011 14:30
Erbil, Jan.23 (AKnews)- The Federation of the Non-governmental Organizations in the Kurdistan Region sent Sunday a protest letter to the president and the senior officials of the Islamic regime of Iran, condemning the execution of Kurdish activists in Iran.
http://www.aknews.com/en/aknews/3/212751/
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Demonstration outside Chilcot Enquiry
22-01-2011 14:40
Middle East Peace Envoy Calls For More War
22-01-2011 09:41
Middle East peace envoy Tony Blair uses his appearance before the Chilcot Inquiry to call for another and suggests war in the Middle East.Report of Smash EDO noise demo 19/01/11 - More petty arrests
20-01-2011 15:07
EDO is a Brighton based arms manufacturer owned by ITT. They produce bomb release equipment for the US, UK and Israeli armed forces.The Smash EDO campaign aims to close the factory down. Every Wednesday, since 2004, activists have gathered outside the factory gates to bang pots and pans
An account of Marco Jacobs' time in Brighton
19-01-2011 15:57
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2011/01/472363.html Marco Jacobs was an undercover officer in Brighton in 2004/5
Report of Smash EDO surprise demo to commemorate the Gaza massacre
17-01-2011 16:28
This morning , Monday 17th January, a small group of us held a surprise noise demo at EDO MBM to tell the arms dealers what we think of them.Full article | 11 additions | 2 comments
Jan 15th Reports of Anti-War Actions taken on the Anniversary of this 20 Year On
17-01-2011 10:50
- White House, Whitehall, London, Dublin, Menwith Hill, Wellington, Christchurch, Brisbane***VID (3 mins 14 secs) 100 folks vigil outside the White House at 7 pm Saturday Jan 15th. (Martin Luther King Day in the United States midnight London, Dublin,), the exact prime time for U.S television that the 20 year ongoing war on Iraq began Jan 15 1991.
http://dc.indymedia.org/newswire/display/150784/index.php
Wrexham marks Gulf War anniversary
16-01-2011 09:31
Barclays cash machine sabotaged in Solidarity with the victims of EDO/ITT
13-01-2011 12:44
Barclay Capital is the market maker for ITT Corporation on the New York Stock Exchange - see http://www.nyse.com/about/listed/lcddata.html?ticker=itt
The Chilcot inquiry into the invasion of Iraq - Blair to appear again
12-01-2011 12:56
The mass murder Tony Blair is due to appearance at the Iraq Inquiry on January 21stLocation
The QEII Centre is located at Broad Sanctuary, Westminster, London, SW1P 3EE
Christian Arabs’ Plight: Foreign ‘Protection’ Counterproductive
12-01-2011 12:31
Unfortunately, this traditional European divide – and – rule policy in the Arab world, as it was the case for centuries, is today finding ample papal blessing from the Vatican to justify itself, not in the eyes of Arabs, but in the eyes of its own audiences. President Sarkozy’s whistle blower cry this January 6 that Christians in the Arab – Islamic world are victims of a planned ‘religious cleansing,” came on the backdrop of the Vatican’s Pope Benedict XVI repeated call on the world leaders to rise up for the protection and “defense of the Christians in the Middle East.”Smash EDO benefit Friday 14th of January
10-01-2011 11:34
14th January, 7pm at The Cowley Club, London Rd. Featuring Kiyomori, Sak-Less Jack, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Ollie Barron and 7 Day Conspiracy. Live bands till midnight followed by DJs till close.January 15th-20 Years of War on Iraq *5.30 Gathering *7.30 Public Meeting *Vigil
08-01-2011 06:02
*Sponsored by Catholic Worker communities (Giuseppe Conlon House/ London, St Francis House/ Oxford, the CW Farmhouse/ Rickmansworth), "Harringey Soldiarity Group" and "Justice not Vengeance".An initiative from D.C.
http://dccatholicworker.wordpress.com/2010/12/25/january-15-1991-january15-2011-20-years-of-u-s-war-on-iraq/ taken up in London,spreading across the world! Wikileaks: 1990 cable details crucial meeting on eve of Iraqi invasion of Kuwait
06-01-2011 11:39
A previously secret US diplomatic cable from 1990, published by WikiLeaks on New Year’s Day http://www.wikileaks.ch/cable/1990/07/90BAGHDAD4237.html , provides a detailed account of a crucial meeting between the US ambassador to Iraq and Saddam Hussein on the eve of Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait.
Two Kurds at imminent risk of execution by Iran's islamic regime
02-01-2011 20:25
Hossein Khezri, a 28-year-old man, and Zeynab Jalalian, a 27-year-old woman, Kurdish Youth Activist, are feared to be at imminent risk of execution. Both were convicted of “enmity against God”, in separate cases, for membership of the Party for Free Life of Kurdistan.