UK Terror War Newswire Archive
Supporters rally for soldier in brig who refused to go to Iraq
09-02-2009 22:26
Note: Soldiers in the UK can get confidential advice from an AT EASE voluntary counsellor, please phone 0207 247 5164 on a Sunday between 5pm-7pm.Calllout for actions against NATO
09-02-2009 14:52
NATO’s 60th anniversary conference takes place in Strasbourg (France) and Baden-Baden (Germany) on 3rd-4th April.Groups from the peace, anarchist and radical left movements across Europe are working together to oppose the conference.
ETA bombs BAA HQ in Madrid
09-02-2009 13:02
A car bomb exploded in Madrid at 9am today near the offices of Ferrovial, owners of BAA. No one was injured. The Basque separatist organisation ETA has claimed responsibility.Police raid 'bomb factory' in Islington
09-02-2009 12:26
At 4am this morning, residents in a north london council block were woken by police and evacuated from their homes. No explanation was provided; however, one police officer did say that the police "have found substances that could be used to make bombs."Anti-War Teach-In At MMU 11th of Feb
09-02-2009 03:06
Anti War Teach In : From Iraq to Palestine.2pm - 9pm: Weds 11th February
Obama and 9/11
08-02-2009 22:53
Imagine yourself within the mind of Barack Obama, the first African American president of the United States of America. You are a man who knows how 'the system' works. This knowledge has been accrued at hard struggle, and by a remarkable and unique ability to adapt to any environment because you spent a lifetime as an exotic specimen in every environment, from Kansas to Kenya -- both African and American, Muslim and Christian, black and white. But you always displayed your native nobility -- tribal nobility on your father's side; nobility of spirit on your mother's -- and you were, with rare exceptions, accepted on your own terms. You were born under the sign of Leo, the lion, the natural leader; and your intelligence was honed with great discipline, under the influence of strong women.On Mount Gerizim, thinking about Gaza, timeless occupations and endless ethnic c
08-02-2009 20:44
Over the December period, Israel started shelling Gaza in a major offensive against the civilian population who individually paid the price with massive fatalities, dismembered limbs and phosphorous burns penetrating skin to bone.Sharp blades of all sizes and shapes, lethal slivers raining down slicing and piecing, amputating; arms from bodies, heads from necks...
Gazans were prevented from leaving the strip, trapped inside as the knives and fire rained down.
In Nablus people clung to their TV screens, eyes spread- eagled wide, unable to work as the seemingly endless deformities of destruction paraded night after night.
Email David Miliband about Binyam Mohamed
08-02-2009 19:46
UK an US intelligence want Binyam Mohamed dead in Guantanamo because they don't want the facts of his torture made known.Email David Miliband:
milibandd@parliament.uk
Obama the imperialist
08-02-2009 17:07
The first Democratic president in the modern era to be elected on an anti-war ticket is also, to the relief of neocons and the liberal belligerati, a hawk. Committed to escalation in Afghanistan, his foreign policy selections also indicate bellicosity towards Sudan and Iran. During his first week in office he sanctioned two missile attacks in Pakistan, killing 22 people, including women and children. And his stance on Gaza is remarkably close to that of the outgoing administration. The question now is how Obama will convince his supporters to back that stance. Bush could rely on a core constituency whose commitment to peace and human rights is, at the very least, questionable. Obama has no such luxury. In making his case, he will need the support of those "liberal hawks" who gave Bush such vocal support.Freedom Fighters, Terrorists or Schlemiels?
08-02-2009 15:26
Condi Rice: “What we’re seeing here, in a sense, is the growing birth pangs of a new Middle East.”Jon Stewart: “Birth pangs? Yes, I believe today’s contraction took out a city block.”
London Basque Solidarity Campaign-Public Event
08-02-2009 11:55
PUBLIC EVENT organised by London Basque Solidarity CampaignThursday 12th February 2009 (7:00pm) Oxford House
Projection of the documentary The Spanish Inquisition
Speaker Saleh Mamon (Human Rights activist)
Foreign Office colludes with US to cover-up torture of Binyam Mohamed
08-02-2009 11:37
A High Court ruling by two British judges regarding the torture of a Guantánamo detainee has unleashed a major political crisis.The judges have stated that they have been pressured by the United States into concealing evidence that should be made available in any country governed by the rule of law. This took the form of threats to withdraw security cooperation, instigated under the Bush administration and continued under Barak Obama's presidency.
Interview with Franklin Lamb: Self Defense or War Crime? (Part II)
08-02-2009 03:48
Part II: Findings of Fact, Conclusions of Law: What Remedy?Interview with Franklin Lamb: Self Defense or War Crime? (Part I)
08-02-2009 03:46
Part I: What Law Applies?Mass student campaign for solidarity with Palestine wins victories at Dundee Uni
07-02-2009 16:49
Israel and Hamas Won, So Who Lost?
07-02-2009 15:44
The spectacle of tanks back from the battlefield with the blue and white Star of David flapping from their turrets, the faces of the young soldiers, their body language—all leave no doubt concerning Israel's victory. If we compare this pullback from Gaza with the one from Lebanon over two years past, there is no need for extensive commentary: Israel has retrieved the pride and reputation of its army, which had been badly damaged by that other war in the north. The world has been reminded that the Middle East contains but a single military power worthy of the name. Deterrent capability, the magical force that is supposed to protect Israel from its enemies, has returned in full strength. Israel's Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, who promised to correct his earlier failures in accordance with the findings of the Winograd Inquiry, has indeed come through.Supporting terrorism on the net
07-02-2009 13:19
Last November, blogger Mohamed Adel, or General Mait (dead), was detained because of a photograph taken of him, with a Palestinian Hamas official. The damning evidence was clicked when Adel participated in a humanitarian caravan to the Gaza Strip.The Politics Of Bollocks
06-02-2009 23:54
February 06, 2009 "Information Clearinghouse" --- Growing up in an Antipodean society proud of its rich variety of expletives, I never heard the word bollocks. It was only on arrival in England that I understood its majesterial power. All classes used it. Judges grunted it; an editor of the Daily Mirror used it as noun, adjective and verb. Certainly, the resonance of a double vowel saw off its closest American contender. It had authority.The Betrayal of British Torture Victim Binyam Mohamed
06-02-2009 18:28
There was a time, as two senior judges in the British High court reported yesterday (PDF), when "The suppression of reports of wrongdoing by officials (in circumstances which cannot in any way affect national security) would be inimical to the rule of law and the proper functioning of a democracy." As the judges -- Lord Justice Thomas and Mr. Justice Lloyd Jones -- noted, correctly, "Championing the rule of law, not suppressing it, is the cornerstone of a democracy."