Glasgow airport used in US 'bunker buster' bombs shipment to Israel
Re-Sista! | 26.07.2006 05:44 | Lebanon War 2006 | Anti-militarism | Scotland
Glasgows Prestwick Airport is a staging post for US supplies of bunker buster bombs to Israel. The aiport has just received two chartered Airbus A310 cargo planes filled with GBU 28 laser-guided bombs over the weekend. The bombs are being flown from the US to Israel for use in the war in Lebannon and possibly for a wider war. The GBU 28 is the massive 'bunker busting bomb' a weapon the Israeli war machine desperately needs in its bloody attempt to smash Hizbollah.
These bombs that are now being rushed to Israel via the UK are the large 5000 lb high explosive GBU 28 (Guided Bomb Unit 28) ‘bunker buster bombs’ made by Raytheon. They are intended to penetrate underground bunkers. Israel is using them in its attempt to smash Hizbollah and dominate the region.
These horrific weapons can kill literally hundreds of people with one strike into an urban area. Israel has already been using these in densely populated areas of the Lebanon. The supply of these bombs to Israel may also help with a future act of war against Iran, the GBU 28 being the ideal tool for this job. Most ‘bunker busters’ have a devastatingly high explosive power making them the most deadly of ‘conventional weapons’. Some use depleted uranium, leaving toxic pollutants, which cause illness and death for years.
The US government has been talking about supplying Israel with these controversial weapons for a while, as part of its manoeuvres against Iran, but this week it suddenly rushed forward the shipment. Campaigners around the world had been denouncing this arms shipment, but do not appear to have been expecting it to have touched down in Glasgow. Strangely, the Daily Torygraph has been the first UK media outlet to break the story that these weapons have stopped off in Glasgow:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/07/26/wmid26.xml
Please forward this info and post news of any protests!
These horrific weapons can kill literally hundreds of people with one strike into an urban area. Israel has already been using these in densely populated areas of the Lebanon. The supply of these bombs to Israel may also help with a future act of war against Iran, the GBU 28 being the ideal tool for this job. Most ‘bunker busters’ have a devastatingly high explosive power making them the most deadly of ‘conventional weapons’. Some use depleted uranium, leaving toxic pollutants, which cause illness and death for years.
The US government has been talking about supplying Israel with these controversial weapons for a while, as part of its manoeuvres against Iran, but this week it suddenly rushed forward the shipment. Campaigners around the world had been denouncing this arms shipment, but do not appear to have been expecting it to have touched down in Glasgow. Strangely, the Daily Torygraph has been the first UK media outlet to break the story that these weapons have stopped off in Glasgow:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/07/26/wmid26.xml Please forward this info and post news of any protests!
Re-Sista!
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