Be there! Peace trial, Bristol Crown Court, 4th Sept

bristol | peace | announcement Sunday July 16, 2006 14:41 by Truth Monkey - General Public truthmonkey2 at hotmail dot com

Fairford Peace 'Disarmers' go on trial for trying to help innocent Iraqi people

You are invited to attend the trial of the Fairford peace 'disarmers' at Bristol Crown Court, 4 September 2006. This the text from a mail I received re. the forthcoming trial at Bristol Crown Court . If you want to support the 'Disarmers' - and it seems like a no brainer to me - then come along. The people of Iraq need your support too. Peace.

Fairford peace 'disarmers' - trial at Bristol Crown Court
Posted by: "Monica Jones" nabataat@yahoo.co.uk nabataat
Date: Sat Jul 15, 2006 2:33 am (PDT)

Fairford peace 'disarmers' - trial at Bristol Crown Court starts September 4th
(See further information, below)

Back in March 2003 Paul Milling and I, using hammers and bolt cutters at RAF Fairford, disabled a couple of dozen vehicles used for getting bombs and fuel onto military planes. Our hope was to delay take-off of the B-52 bombers then stationed on the base, waiting to launch the first bombing raid on Iraq. These planes carried, among other weapons, cluster bombs.

Their appalling load was to be part of the 'Shock and Awe' raids on Baghdad, so bragged about by the Pentagon.

Whether we did succeed in delaying the take-off of the planes to any degree, will never be known. All I personally hoped for, though was to give someone living in the city a chance to run for their life before all hell came down.

After a series of pre-trial appeals, we now go to trial, charged with Conspiracy to commit Criminal Damage.

Maximum sentence: ten years' imprisonment.

Trial dates: MONDAY 4th SEPTEMBER (until Sept. 18th)

We could do with the presence of friends and supporters for this one:

On the morning of Day One outside the court, especially.

(Anyone can come in, of course to hear all or part of the trial.)


We hope you will come and support - as several of our witnesses have said - not just for Paul and me (though this gives us great encouragement and strength) - but for all the Iraqi people.

As I remind myself, this is the city that sent 66 coaches to London one Saturday in February, 3 years ago.

Please put this date in your diary, now. We'll be in touch again nearer the time.

All best wishes -


Margaret Jones