UK Iraq Newswire Archive
Guantánamo / Abu Ghraib interrogation firms and the UK Census
25-03-2011 11:30
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Friday, 25 March 2011
The London Guantánamo Campaign [1] is concerned about the involvement in the upcoming UK-wide Census of two private companies that were contracted to carry out coercive prisoner interrogations at the notorious US military detention facilities at Guantánamo Bay and Abu Ghraib, Iraq. [2]
Shut Guantánamo / Free Shaker / Free Bradley Manning demo
24-03-2011 15:48
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Friday 1 April, 12-1pm and 1.15-2.15pm:
12-1pm: US Embassy, Grosvenor Square, London, W1A 1AE (nearest tube: Bond Street/Marble Arch)
1.15-2.15pm: Speaker's Corner, Hyde Park, W1 (nearest tube: Marble Arch)
The wars on Iraq and Libya: Front pages from 2003 and 2011
21-03-2011 14:04
![Los Angeles Times, 20 March 2003 and 20 March 2011](/icon/2011/03/476338.jpg)
Vigil in Wrexham for Bradley Manning, for Japan, Iraq and Libya
21-03-2011 12:37
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Johnson wins eviction in high court against veteran peace campaigner Brian Haw
17-03-2011 14:34
Granting an order for possession and an injunction against Haw and Tucker, Mr Justice Wyn Williams said: "As is apparent from this judgment, I have concluded that the claimant has adduced substantial evidence which justifies the conclusion that the making of orders in this case is proportionate."Flashback:How the forgotten city of Halabja became the launchpad for war on Iraq
16-03-2011 19:29
![Tony Blair, George Bush and Jose Maria Aznar at the Azores Summit, 16 March 2003](/icon/2011/03/476079.jpg)
The Guardian’s hatchet job on Julian Assange #WikiLeaks
10-03-2011 20:22
WikiLeaks: Inside Julian Assange’s War on Secrecy, by David Leigh and Luke Harding, published by the Guardian newspaper, is now being paraded as the “official” account of WikiLeaks and its founder Julian Assange. It is in reality a politically-motivated hatchet job aimed at discrediting Assange and facilitating his persecution by the Obama administration and its allies in the UK and Sweden.20th anniversary - How George Bush, Sr. sold the 1991 war on Iraq
04-03-2011 17:01
![A military show by the Kuwaiti Army marked the 20th anniversary of the Gulf War](/icon/2011/03/475136.jpg)
"Hill & Knowlton, then the world's largest public relations firm, masterminded the Kuwaiti campaign to sell the 1991 Gulf War to the American public. By the time their lies were exposed TV newscasters were waxing ecstatic over the rockets' red glare, computerized 'smart-bombs' bursting in air, and 250,000 people were dead."
4th March Demo in Solidarity with the Middle Eastern and North African Uprisings
03-03-2011 17:56
Demonstrate Friday 4th MarchBrighton, Old Steine, 5pm
Brighton demo this Friday in Solidarity with the Middle Eastern Revolutions
01-03-2011 16:27
The uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa are ongoing. Gaddafi has now lost control of the majority of Libya while, an uprising has begun in Oman while resistance continues in Bahrain and Yemen.105 Billion Monthly,3.5 billion daily,1.26 Trillion Yearly,.US War Cost
24-02-2011 18:26
The human, animal and environmental costs of the wars of the US, UK and NATOare incalculable. The fiscal cost is below.
Support Iraqi orphans
24-02-2011 09:46
Hussein Al-alak is a journalist, campaigner and chairman of Iraq Solidarity UK.Breaking News: Bloody protests rock Iraqi Kurdistan
20-02-2011 13:01
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The Traitor of Baghdad
18-02-2011 10:51
Hussein Al-alak is a journalist, campaigner and chairman of Iraq Solidarity UK.EDL Official Website Hacked By Anti Fascist Hackers - 09 Feb 2011
09-02-2011 06:40
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Hackers have again compromised the EDL and have taken down their actual website.
You can see the hack in action here,
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United in our heritage
07-02-2011 11:39
Hussein Al-alak is a journalist, campaigner and chairman of Iraq Solidarity UK.London - 4 Days of Action announced 4 Julian Assange & Bradley Manning 4, 5, 7, 8
04-02-2011 10:55
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"FREE ASSANGE! FREE MANNING! FREE SPEECH!"
Four Days of Action announced for Julian Assange and Bradley Manning 4th, 5th, 7th and 8th February.
Cyber, anti-war and human rights activists will today descend on the Australian High Commission and on Monday/Tuesday on the Woolwich magistrates court, while on Saturday there will be a public meeting in Harringay, north London.
A worms eye view of the Middle East revolution
01-02-2011 10:39
Hussein Al-alak is a journalist, campaigner and chairman of Iraq Solidarity UK.Blair's Iraq Timeline Of Lies
27-01-2011 15:29
![Blair leaving the Inquiry and returning to his multimillionaire lifestyle](/icon/2011/01/472898.jpg)
Barclays Shut All Day, After Lively Protest.
24-01-2011 22:57
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About 80 people, many wearing guy fawkes masks and others dressed as clowns, joined the rolling demonstration to highlight the banks’ involvement in the arms trade.
They gathered in Castle Park before marching down Union Street and into Broadmead, at first followed by two patrolling police officers.