UK Iraq Newswire Archive
Selling out the marines
07-04-2007 23:23
It's just been announced on TV that the UK marines and sailors are being given special permission to sell their stories to the press. You won't need to agree with my previous analysis that they were used as pawns by both governments to be flabbergasted by this.Come toUSAF Lakenheath Demo
07-04-2007 12:00
USAF Lakenheath Demonstration!
WEDNESDAY 18TH APRIL
from 4 p.m. at Gate 1,
on the A 1065,
--to welcome the Vanunu Freedom cyclists on their way to London from Faslane
-- to take part in the annual vigil remembering the bombing of Libya (April 1986) from this base
-- to sustain our protest over the nuclear and cluster bombs at
Lakenheath
--to Say ‘Don’t attack Iran’ ( missions could be flown from this US base)
Lakenheath 8, SOCPA 128, Trial dates
06-04-2007 17:50
The ‘Lakenheath 8’ Pete, Richie, Mell, Lesley G, Lesley A, Margaret, Irene and Emma now have their trial dates for the action they took last October. The trial will take place on the 6th, 10th and 11th of July 2007 at Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk courts.Media Alert: A Menace To Us All - Max Hastings and Iran
04-04-2007 15:46
When the big fish of British journalism enter the much bigger pond of the American prestige press, they understand that success requires a willingness to massage elite American prejudices.A Bogus “Hostage Crisis”
04-04-2007 11:52
On March 31, the President of the United States made a statement pertaining to the 15 British sailors and marines unfortunately detailed in Iran: “The Iranians must give back the hostages. They’re innocent. The Iranians took these people out of Iraqi waters. It’s inexcusable behavior.”Birmingham Indymedia Screening: Iraq For Sale
03-04-2007 19:18
Birmingham Indymedia will be screening the Iraq for Sale – The War Pofiteers film at the Midlands Arts Centre in Birmingham on 10 April, 8pm. There will also be speakers afterwards from Corporate Watch and Hands Off Iraqi Oil.
Battle of Baghdad Cover-Up Four Years Later
03-04-2007 15:51
Interview WithCAPTAIN ERIC MAY
Ghost Troop Commander
War Crimes Video Evidence: US Troops Randomly Killing Iraqi Civilians
03-04-2007 09:59
Home made video by US forces in Iraq shows trigger happy troops shooting anything that moves on an Iraqi street, then attacking a building where civilians try to take cover.UN Security Council Helps Disarm a Prospective Further Victim of U.S. Aggression
03-04-2007 00:28
Now, four years later, the Security Council has outdone itself. Not only has it failed to condemn the U.S. and Israeli threat to attack Iran—the threat itself a violation of the UN Charter,[4] and one made ever-more real by the U.S. invasions of neighboring Afghanistan and Iraq during this decade alone, now followed by a huge U.S. naval buildup near Iran's coast to levels not seen since the U.S. launched its war on Iraq four years ago in what the New York Times just called a "calculated show of force."[5] But even worse, the Council has aided and abetted these potential aggressors by adopting three resolutions in the past eight months under Chapter VII of the UN Charter, each of which affirms that Iran's nuclear program is a threat to international peace and security, and reserves for the Council the right to take "further appropriate measures" should Iran fail to comply—that is, should Iran not cave-in to U.S. demands on exactly the terms demanded.[6]A wanton cover-up: No British soldiers found guilty in murder of Iraqi worker
02-04-2007 13:24
On September 14, 2003, Baha Musa, a 26-year-old hotel receptionist and father of two, was detained along with several others in a raid by the Queens Lancashire Regiment in the Haitham Hotel in Basra. Over the course of the next 36 hours, Musa was humiliated, starved, robbed, forced to drink his own urine, choked and repeatedly pummeled by perhaps dozens of British soldiers. He died as a result of the sadistic abuse.Iraq War: Counting the Cost
01-04-2007 14:08
The post invasion Iraqi death toll is now estimated to be as high as 1,000,000, far higher than the previous estimate of 655,000; this is according to recent scientific data. Over 5,000,000 Iraqis have been hurt or wounded. Recent figures indicate the refugee numbers have climbed from 2,700,000 to over 3,900,000 and the refugee crisis is broadly impacting the entire region of the Middle East. These are the figures that are not being reported on American television or in American newspapers.“The crisis of Iraqi Turkmen with land Confiscation and the Iraqi Constitution”
31-03-2007 00:41
The crisis of the Iraqi Turkmen is still persisting in their own lands under the present Kurdish regime who dominates the region by the militia of the two main Kurdish parties KDP and PUK. The human rights of the Turkmen, therefore, are violated and the situation may get worst if it continuous without a fair solution. The European Parliament and all other international organizations are urged to consider our concerns and calls.UK / Iran: Both Sides Must Stop This Mad Confrontation, Now
30-03-2007 08:14
There is no agreed maritime boundary between Iraq and Iran in the Persian Gulf. Until the current mad propaganda exercise of the last week, nobody would have found that in the least a controversial statement.Hey, reporter - REMEMBER peace works, despite warspin pay-offs. Unratchet !
29-03-2007 15:54
The BIG news, for the uk - for the world, in fact, is the under reporting of the "gritty miracle" of the N.I. peace process -far from as "grubby" as the "Indy" (29/4/7) paints it . . . . but if you are in that minderbinder, war racketeer-spiv industry, perhaps the threat of a good example. The intriguing "LITTLE" gaps or odd spasms in the Shatt al-arab tale are luminous, though. Very "con venient" for warbux, less for people. . . .Smash EDO Court Victory For The Right To Protest
28-03-2007 21:10
23rd March 2007Smash EDO Press Release
www.smashedo.org.uk
COURT VICTORY FOR THE RIGHT TO PROTEST
Contact Andrew or Sarah tel 07875708873,
smashedopress@yahoo.co.uk POLICE OPEN FIRE ON PEACE ANTI-WAR DEMO: TACOMA, WASHINGTON USA
28-03-2007 18:49
title says it allMinistry of Defence confirms 650,000 Iraqi deaths
27-03-2007 23:22
The UK Ministry of Defence's Chief Scientific Adviser, Sir Roy Anderson, on 13 October 2007,referring to the 11 October 2006 report in the medical journal The Lancet estimating that about
655,000 Iraqis had died due to the US/UK invasion/occupation since March 2003, 'The study
design is robust and employs methods that are regarded as close to "best practice" in this area'.
In other words, the MoD has acknowledged the "deci-Holocaust" in Iraq (10% of the Holocaust).
4th Anniversary of Depleted Uranium used in Iraq arriving in the UK
27-03-2007 18:32
Thursday 29th March 2007 is the 4th anniversary of the uranium aerosols from the 'shock and awe' bombing of Iraq, reaching the UK. Today David Wilson, Press Office for the Stop the War Coalition, published an article on DU, which follows.
Unwelcome Guests: #351 - Death Squads and Empire
27-03-2007 11:29
Spanish Judge calls for architects of Iraq invasion to be tried for war crimes
27-03-2007 07:06
Baltasar Garzón, the Spanish judge who sought to prosecute Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet, has called for US President George W. Bush and his allies to be tried for war crimes over Iraq.