November 23, 2011
British troops round up suspected Ba’ath party activists in Basra, south-eastern Iraq in 2003. Photograph: MoD/AP Iraqi prisoners move closer to inquiry into mistreatment claims UK military faces judge-led inquiry into detentions and interrogations after appeal court rules in favour of 140 Iraqis reddit this Ian Cobain and Richard Norton-Taylor guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 22 November 2011 15.38 GMT [...]
Tags: Baha Mousa, British Armed Forces, British Army, Iraq, Joint Forward Intelligence Team, Ministry of Defence, Royal Military Police, Saddam Hussein
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August 17, 2011
Defence chiefs must be called to account Cameron stifles much-needed debate on UK military as generals accused of failed operations and ‘Yes Minister’ attitude WikiLeaks cables: David Cameron is greeted by troops at Patrol Base 2 between Lashkar Gah and Gereshk in Afghanistan. Photograph: Leon Neal/AFP/Getty Images “There are moments when I wake up and [...]
Tags: British Armed Forces, British Army, David Cameron, David Richards (British Army officer), Lashkar Gah, Royal United Services Institute, Sherard Cowper-Coles, Yes Minister
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July 16, 2011
A British patrol returns to camp in Nad-e Ali district of Helmand province last year. Photograph: Sean Smith for the Guardian The five-year British military campaign in southern Afghanistan has been woefully under-resourced and hampered by inadequate equipment, according to a damning report by MPs. The Commons defence select committee, which has been analysing UK operations [...]
Tags: Afghanistan, British Armed Forces, British Army, Helmand Province, Improvised explosive device, Member of parliament, Ministry of Defence, Taliban
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July 6, 2011
British Drone Kills Four Afghan Civilians in Helmand Attack Is First Confirmed UK Drone Killing of Civilians by Jason Ditz, July 05, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum A British Reaper drone has killed at least four civilians and wounded two others in an attack in the Afghanistan’s Helmand Province, the first time [...]
Tags: Afghanistan, British Armed Forces, David Cameron, Helmand Province, Libya, NATO, United State, Warfare and Conflict
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July 6, 2011
British Military ‘Lost’ Billions in Weapons, Equipment MPs Report Warns of ‘Security as Well as Financial Implications’ by Jason Ditz, July 04, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum A new report from British MPs has revealed that the military has lost over $800 million in firearms and over $10 billion total in equipment, [...]
Tags: British Armed Forces, David Cameron, Defense Ministry, Libya, Member of parliament, National Audit Office, United State, Yemen
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June 22, 2011
Irked by Warnings, British PM Tells Military Leadership to Shut Up About Libya ‘You Do the Fighting and I’ll Do the Talking’ by Jason Ditz, June 21, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Warnings from top British military officials, including Navy Chief Admiral Sir Mark Stanhope have cautioned that the Libyan War [...]
Tags: British Armed Forces, David Cameron, Italo-Turkish War, Libya, Libyan War, Mark Stanhope, Northrop Grumman MQ-8 Fire Scout, Prime minister
Posted in Capital, Capital Project, Capitalism, CIA, debate and discussion, Democracy, Democracy in the Arab World, Dictators, Dissent, economic measures, Economics, Economy, Education, elections, Elites, Fascism, Foreign Policy, Fossil fuel, Gas Mining, Imperial Project, Imperialism, Middle East, Militants, Military, Military madmen, Military Murders, Mission Creep, NATO, Negotiate. It's now or never, Obama, Obama warmonger, oil, oil and gas resources, Oil in the USA, Peak oil, people's protests, Predator Drone, Propaganda, Protests, Psycopaths, UK, UK fascism, UK Foreign Policy, voodoo rhythm economics, War, War and economics, War creates misery and despair, War Crimes, War is a crime, War means war, War no reason needed, War on drugs, War on terror, Waterboarding, Wikileaks | No Comments »
June 20, 2011
The power of lies, deception and self-delusion By Christopher King* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz My family has an investment in Libya. It is a small plot of land in the Knightsbridge War Cemeteryat Acroma, eastern Libya, where my uncle, my father’s brother, is buried. He died fighting Rommel’s forces in World War II and left a young wife. [...]
Tags: Barack Obama, Brian Haw, British Armed Forces, David Cameron, Knightsbridge War Cemetery, Tony Blair, United States, World War II
Posted in voodoo rhythm economics, War, War and economics, War creates misery and despair, War Crimes, War is a crime, War means war, War no reason needed, War on drugs, War on terror, Waterboarding, Wikileaks | No Comments »
June 9, 2011
The West’s Hypocrisy Towards Arab Uprisings 30 May 2011 The stand of the West, particularly Britain, towards the uprisings and revolutions in the Arab world is remarkably inconsistent and should be condemned. Yesterday, British newspapers disclosed that British military personnel have been regularly training Saudi National Guard forces in the most up-to-date ways and means [...]
Tags: Arab people, Bahrain, British Armed Forces, David Cameron, Muammar al-Gaddafi, Saudi Arabia, Saudi Arabian National Guard, Western world
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June 5, 2011
Wikleaks: US anger at Gordon Brown’s Iraq withdrawal ADVERTISEMENT Published Date: 05 June 2011 By Kenny Farquharson A DAMNING verdict on Gordon Brown’s handling of the war in Iraq is revealed in secret US diplomatic cables obtained by WikiLeaks and seen by Scotland on Sunday. The cables accuse the former Prime Minister of pulling British [...]
Tags: 2003 invasion of Iraq, British Armed Forces, Gordon Brown, Iraq, Iraq War, Persian Gulf, Saddam Hussein, United States, WikiLeaks
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June 2, 2011
The West’s Hypocrisy Towards Arab Uprisings 30 May 2011 The stand of the West, particularly Britain, towards the uprisings and revolutions in the Arab world is remarkably inconsistent and should be condemned. Yesterday, British newspapers disclosed that British military personnel have been regularly training Saudi National Guard forces in the most up-to-date ways [...]
Tags: Arab people, Bahrain, British Armed Forces, David Cameron, Muammar al-Gaddafi, Saudi Arabia, Saudi Arabian National Guard, Western world
Posted in Arab Spring, Atwan, Bahrain, CIA, debate and discussion, Democracy, Democracy in the Arab World, Dissent, Egypt, European, European Foreign Policy, Foreign Policy, Islam and the US, Leon Panetta, Libya, Middle East, NATO, Negotiate. It's now or never, Obama, Obama warmonger, oil, oil and gas resources, Peace Movement, Propaganda, Tunisia, Turkey, UK, UK Foreign Policy, US Foreign Policy, US war crimes, USA | No Comments »
May 28, 2011
UK training Saudi forces used to crush Arab spring • British military personnel run courses for snipers • Human rights groups furious over Riyadh link Share198 Jamie Doward and Philippa Stewart guardian.co.uk, Saturday 28 May 2011 21.00 BST Article history Saudi special forces, seen here training in Mecca, were used to crush protests in [...]
Tags: Arab people, Bahrain, British Armed Forces, Campaign Against Arms Trade, Mecca, middle east, Ministry of Defence, Ministry of Defence (United Kingdom), Osama bin Laden, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Saudi Arabian National Guard
Posted in Arab Spring, Capital, Capital Project, Capitalism, debate and discussion, Democracy, Democracy in the Arab World, Dissent, Egypt, elections, Elites, Fascism, Foreign Policy, Guardian, Human Rights, Imperial Project, Imperialism, Libya, Middle East, Militants, Military, Military madmen, Military Murders, Miscarriage of Justice, Mission Creep, oil, oil and gas resources, Parliament, Peace Movement, Propaganda, Protest, Protests, Psycopaths, Resource Wars, Right Wing, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey, UK, UK fascism, UK Foreign Policy, voodoo rhythm economics, War, War Crimes, War is a crime, War on terror | No Comments »
April 17, 2011
What a Strange Way to Protect Civilians: Depleted Uranium and Libya by David Wilson, April 16, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum “We are there to protect civilians and civilian-populated areas” – William Hague “I was watching ABC News last night and, lo and behold, there was a DU impact. It burned and [...]
Tags: British Armed Forces, Depleted uranium, European Union, Gulf War, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Libya, Seymour Hersh, United States
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