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| UK activists face jail for 'disarming' Saudi-bound jets |
| 2017-10-25 |
| [Al Jazeera] Two British activists could face jail terms of up to 10 years after attempting to "disarm" BAE fighter jets heading to Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... , where they would have been used to support the kingdom's ongoing bombing campaign in Yemen. Sam Walton, a Quaker activist, and Daniel Woodhouse, a Methodist minister, were enjugged Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! in January after breaking into a BAE Systems airbase in Warton, Lancashire, with hammers and crowbars as they tried to "prevent a war crime" in the Arabian Peninsula state. The pair managed to get beyond fences, closed doors and CCTV camera at the site, which they claim was housing 13 fighter jets scheduled to be sent to Saudi Arabia. "We brought a hammer and a crowbar and were intending on disarming the jets by hammering their noses, which houses the radars, as well as the side panels and the cockpits," Walton told Al Jazeera. "We got within five feet of them ... but as we started to go at a door with our crowbars, we alerted security, and they found us." |
| Posted by:Fred |