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MI6 WARNS OF UDA TERROR BUT THE UK REFUSES TO PROSCRIBE THE ORGANISATION. On 12 February, 1981, David Wyatt of MI6 warned the Northern Ireland permanent secretary that “UDA/UFF (loyalist) gunmen, with the full blessing of Tyrie (head of the Ulster Defence Association), are going to continue murdering identified Republicans.” Please feel welcome to post…

WOMEN ACQUITTED OF DAMAGING AIRCRAFT ON GROUNDS OF PREVENTING A GREATER CRIME. [ 30 July 1996 ] On this day in 1996, four women were acquitted by a Liverpool court of causing £1.5 million damage to Hawk ground attack aircraft which were to be sold to Indonesia, then under the brutal grip of the Suharto…

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BRITISH HAWK JETS USED AGAINST FREE ACEH MOVEMENT 19th May 2003 – Indonesia used Hawk jets, supplied and made by the U.K., to front its assault on the Free Aceh Movement.  The Guardian’s John Aglionby observed that “The Hawks were used primarily to scare and intimidate people on the ground by flying low over targets…

BLAIR FRUSTRATED AT LEGAL CONCERNS OVER KILLING INNOCENT AFGHANS. [ 19 October 2001 ] On this day in 2001, during the American and British bombing of the Taliban in Afghanistan, Tony Blair became agitated over legal objections to some of the targeting on the basis that innocent civilians might be killed. Alastair Campbell, his Director…

BRITISH AIRWAYS’ DOUBLE STANDARDS A letter published on 3 August 2018 in the Guardian and signed by leading LGBTQIA+ activists and several MPs, condemned British Airways for profiting from its willing cooperation in the deportation of failed asylum seekers who had been persecuted for their sexuality, while at the same time sponsoring the UK’s largest…