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Black Hearts for Valentine’s Day at Shannon Airport clare |
anti-war / imperialism |
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 Sunday February 14, 2010 21:25 by John Lannon - Shannonwatch shannonwatch at gmail dot com
 Valentine’s Day was marked at Shannon Airport by a vigil calling for Love not War. Around 25 people gathered in the sunshine outside the airport entrance, displaying black hearts and calling for an end to the U.S. military use of Shannon. Demonstrators ended the hour long vigil by giving their black heart ‘Valentine Cards’ to the Gardai who stood behind the metal barriers which they had erected to block access to the airport. Close to 2 million U.S. troops have passed through Shannon Airport since the invasion of Iraq in March 2003. In 2009 alone over 970 U.S. military contracted aircraft transported troops and cargo through the airport. Flight records maintained by Shannonwatch also show that an additional 360 U.S. Air Force and Navy aircraft landed at Shannon in the same period. According to Shannonwatch, these figures show the strategic role that Shannon plays in the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan, done largely without the knowledge or approval of the Irish people.
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Jump To Comment: 1 2to all involved, great to see the black-hearted complicity of illegal use of Shannon marked on Valentine's.
see verdict on rendition case and heavy handed pressure put on judge after his verdict on MI5's involvement- 'Devious, dishonest and complicit in torture' http://www.reprieve.org.uk/2010_02_10binyam_secrecy
The Guantánamo “Suicides”: A Camp Delta sergeant blows the whistle.
"According to the NCIS (Naval Criminal Investigative Service) documents, each prisoner had fashioned a noose from torn sheets and T-shirts and tied it to the top of his cell’s eight-foot-high steel-mesh wall. Each prisoner was able somehow to bind his own hands, and, in at least one case, his own feet, then stuff more rags deep down into his own throat. We are then asked to believe that each prisoner, even as he was choking on those rags, climbed up on his washbasin, slipped his head through the noose, tightened it, and leapt from the washbasin to hang until he asphyxiated. The NCIS report also proposes that the three prisoners, who were held in non-adjoining cells, carried out each of these actions almost simultaneously." see link http://www.harpers.org/archive/2010/01/hbc-90006368