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UK Terror War Newswire Archive

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WikiLeaks reveals private security contractors killed Iraqis with impunity

27-10-2010 09:39

WikiLeaks’ release of nearly 400,000 US military documents from operations in Iraq between 2003 and 2009 brings to light new evidence that private security contractors killed civilians with impunity.

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US firms behind Afghan terrorism, says Karzai

27-10-2010 05:20

AFGHAN President Hamid Karzai has said US private security firms, including Xe Services LLC, formerly known as Blackwater, are behind terrorism in the country.

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British mercenaries not welcome in Switzerland

25-10-2010 14:47

AEGIS - Yet another letterbox company in Switzerland
The British private military company AEGIS Defence Services has silently relocated its headquarters to the Swiss border city of Basel. In theoretically 'neutral' Switzerland, however, the company's arrival has sparked controversy and opposition.

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The Afghan peace talks and the “war on terror”

25-10-2010 11:17

US and NATO officials revealed earlier this month that they are facilitating talks between senior Taliban leaders and the Afghan government of Hamid Karzai—a regime that Washington and its allies have sustained in power through a nine-year-long counter-insurgency war.

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Criminalisation of Protest and Dissent in Britain

24-10-2010 21:04

Criminalisation of protest and dissent is now a common feature of neo-liberal governance. Here is a chance for you to share your experiences and thereby contribute to a chapter on the situation in Britain for a book on criminalisation of dissent around the world.

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Criminalisation of Protest and Dissent in Britain

24-10-2010 20:50

Criminalisation of protest and dissent is now a common feature of neo-liberal governance. Here is a chance for you to share your experiences and thereby contribute to a chapter on the situation in Britain for a book on criminalisation of dissent around the world.

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Criminalisation of Protest and Dissent in Britain

24-10-2010 20:26

Criminalisation of protest and dissent is now a common feature of neo-liberal governance. Here is a chance for you to share your experiences and thereby contribute to a chapter on the situation in Britain for a book on criminalisation of dissent around the world.

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Criminalisation of Protest and Dissent in Britain

24-10-2010 20:24

Criminalisation of protest and dissent is now a common feature of neo-liberal governance. Here is a chance for you to share your experiences and thereby contribute to a chapter on the situation in Britain for a book on criminalisation of dissent around the world.

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Criminalisation of Protest and Dissent in Britain

24-10-2010 20:22

Criminalisation of protest and dissent is now a common feature of neo-liberal governance. Here is a chance for you to share your experiences and thereby contribute to a chapter on the situation in Britain for a book on criminalisation of dissent around the world.

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Birmingham Spy Cameras - police meeting Monday 25th October

24-10-2010 19:52


Public/ open meeting at 11.30 AM TOMORROW - Monday 25th Oct

West Midlands Police Authority are holding a meeting about the issues surrounding the controversial 'Project Champion' spy cameras, which was suspended in July.

There will be a response from the police and the police authority to the recent independent review into the fiasco. There will aslo be a report from the chief constable regarding "the future of the cameras". Th...en the public (who are allowed to attend, but not speak, I'm told) will be ejected. The meeting will continue in closed session behind closed doors with the public excluded while talks are carried out in secret.

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Dick Cheney Was Right! Torture Works.

24-10-2010 17:30

That's if you are torturing for the explicit purpose of having torture victims confess to crimes they didn't commit.

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US troops and Iraqi torture

23-10-2010 16:01

Secret US files - torture
US troops ordered not to investigate Iraqi torture ........ United States troops were told not to investigate allegations of torture by Iraqi security forces, according to documents found in the war logs. A comprehensive trawl of the secret military files show that US soldiers witnessed, or were told of, more than 1,300 cases of detainee abuse by Iraqi authorities. But following the Abu Ghraib scandal of 2004, they were given explicit orders not to investigate unless coalition personnel were involved.
The logs reveal that more than 180,000 people were detained in Iraq between 2004 and 2009. This is equivalent to one in 50 of the male population. In comparison, the number of people detained in Afghanistan, which has a similar population, was 7,500. Most of those detained in Iraq detentions were in state-run centres. .....  http://www.iraqwarlogs.com/ .....

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WikiLeaks: the largest classified military leak in history

23-10-2010 08:37

At 5pm EST Friday 22nd October 2010 WikiLeaks released the largest classified military leak in history. The 391,832 reports ('The Iraq War Logs'), document the war and occupation in Iraq, from 1st January 2004 to 31st December 2009 (except for the months of May 2004 and March 2009) as told by soldiers in the United States Army. Each is a 'SIGACT' or Significant Action in the war. They detail events as seen and heard by the US military troops on the ground in Iraq and are the first real glimpse into the secret history of the war that the United States government has been privy to throughout.

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Where the Hell is the Progressive Rebel Party?

22-10-2010 18:30

Teabaggers are being “bagged” back into the same old two party system—that is not just corrupted but corroded—so the joke will ultimately be on them—exactly in the same way that the joke was on progressives, who equally thought a corporate owned “top-down” Democratic Party was going to deliver a new deal of any kind—even as the bottom up got many of them elected into office.

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Islamist radicalisation at British universities

22-10-2010 13:25

Islamist radicalisation at British universities

A Quilliam Foundation report

Study highlights intimidation of women, Jewish, gay and Muslim students

London , UK – 22 October 2010

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Hollywood - Weaponised Dream Factory: an Interview with Matthew Alford

22-10-2010 09:16

Where They Have Holes In Their Souls

We bask in a certain reflected glory from the newspapers we read. To “take” The Times is to be far more intellectual, far more highbrow, than someone who takes the Mail. To read the Mail is to be far more responsible than someone who gawks in the Mirror. A Guardian reader is highbrow with a human face: intellectual, aware, like other “broadsheet” readers, but with a much greater commitment to making the world a better, fairer place. Independent readers share the same commitment, perhaps a little less earnestly.

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AFGHAN WAR MEETING - Cardiff

21-10-2010 18:40

Public Meeting: Afghanistan - The Case for Withdrawal
Thursday 28 October at 7pm, Shandon Lecture Theatre, Main Building, Cardiff University, Park Place (opp. Student Union)

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Coalition Against Austerity Cuts, Downing Street, London - Pictures

21-10-2010 02:00

Scuffles Outside Downing Street.
On the day the coalition Government announce major and severe cuts in public sector spending in the domestic British economy, and a day after the announcement of an 8% cut in military spending, campaigners against the cuts assemble in London to march on Downing Street to object to the scale of the cuts.

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BAE Systems protest at Guardian's London Graduate Fair

20-10-2010 13:12

BAE- Blatant absence of ethics
Attempts by the arms giant BAE Systems to recruit graduates to their business were met by a series of forceful but peaceful protests at a major careers fair in central London yesterday afternoon (19 October).

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Free Mohammed Hamid. Paintballing is not a crime!

20-10-2010 03:34

In 2008 Mohammed Hamid was convicted under the terrorism act having gone on a paintballing holiday which was to be filmed for TV. The police have claimed that paintballing is "terrorist training." The "evidence" provided in court included identical statements word for word given by two people and the police claiming that Mohammed was "holding a stick just like people in Iraq."
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