...and Yemen!

[teqniq]

It would appear to not be 'collateral'.

Saudi accused over ‘worrying pattern of attacks' after another hospital is bombed in Yemen

 

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I see at last caat have done something and put hm government on notice for a breach of the arms sales to Saudi. They have 2 weeks to sort it/ defend their position.

 

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Angus Robertson was on the wireless this morning talking about our bombs, our planes, our skill, our training etc. and
he went on to mention double tap bombing - lovely.
SNP demand end to UK arms sales helping Saudi Arabia's war in Yemen

 

[teqniq]

Dianne Abbot stating the bleeding obvious.

Is the Government providing political cover for our arms sales to Saudi Arabia?

Incidentally I've been following a few Yemeni people on Twitter for quite a while now and every day/night there are bombs, bombs, bombs and more bombs. Have a look at this guys timeline, this is a fairly commonplace tweet:



You'd think there wasn't much left to bomb but apparently there is. Bae systems must be overjoyed.

 

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See my last post - we, sorry whoops, Saudi are double tap bombing, meaning they bomb any single target at least twice, so in effect, keeping the bombing very local but using not just one cluster of bombs but two or more. It's great for our arms manufacturers, not forgetting the dealers/brokers and associated immoral bastards.

 

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Not before time, but £6.7 since the bastard was elected, still it's keeping people in employment, so it's probably OK!

Ekklesia | Campaigners welcome call to suspend Saudi arms sales

 

[teqniq]

Does the International Development Committee actually have any real powers or influence? Because if not I fully expect the UK government to completely ignore this, they have been routinely treating everyone with contempt on any number of issues both foreign and domestic I don't really expect them to change now.

 

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Come buy my guns and bombs, they are brilliant!

David Cameron boasts of 'brilliant' UK arms exports to Saudi Arabia

He did say he wanted to stay in europe? He will fight to the death for the right...

I did not vote for that warmonger fascist Tory bastard!

 

[brogdale]

Come buy my guns and bombs, they are brilliant!

David Cameron boasts of 'brilliant' UK arms exports to Saudi Arabia

He did say he wanted to stay in europe? He will fight to the death for the right...

I did not vote for that warmonger fascist Tory bastard!

I’m going to be spending a lot of the next four months talking about this issue but I promise I will not be taking my eye off the ball, making sure the brilliant things you make here at BAE Systems are available and sold all over the world. We have some of the toughest rules on defence exports – and rightly so – but I think it is absolutely right to get behind companies like this …

FS

 

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Unbelievable. How do these people live with themselves

 

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Petition to sign, protest to go on ( 9 March ) Campaign Against Arms Trade

 

[teqniq]

Anyone near or willing to come to Cardiff this March:

Stop the Cardiff Arms Fair

On 16 March, a big UK arms fair is being held in Cardiff, and people are planning to resist it.

According to its website, DPRTE (the Defence Procurement, Research, Technology and Exportability exhibition) is the “UK’s Premier Defense Procurement Event” and is now being hosted annually at Cardiff Motorpoint Arena. They hosted the arms fair in Cardiff for the first time in October 2014, with exhibitors including BAE Systems, the world’s 3rd largest arms producer, whose weapons are currently being used in the Saudi attacks on Yemen.

There has been active opposition to DPRTE since 2013. The arms fair had originally been hosted at the UWE campus in Bristol, but was driven out by determined resistance; and has now moved to Cardiff. The protests involved a variety of actions, including blockading the UWE north entrance, causing queues trailing back along the A4174.

 

[teqniq]

I notice that

The vote does not force EU member states to comply but it increases pressure on national governments to re-examine their relationships with Riyadh.

So yet again I expect them to pay fuck all attention to this.

 

[teqniq]

Britain should leave the EU so it can sell more bombs to Saudi Arabia, 'out' campaigners say

 

[Pickman's model]

Britain should leave the EU so it can sell more bombs to Saudi Arabia, 'out' campaigners say

 

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Anyone near or willing to come to Cardiff this March:

Stop the Cardiff Arms Fair

Have you ever been on a caat protest?
Shakes head! Do go, go for me, but...

 

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It is of course us bombing by proxy. Anyway, Yemen conflict: air strike on market 'kills 30 people' - BBC News

 

[teqniq]

MPs have launched an investigation into whether Saudi Arabia is using British weapons to kill civilians

MPs have launched an investigation whether British-made arms are being used by Saudi Arabian forces in a widely-criticised military campaign in Yemen. ...

What, really? We already know that paveway laser guided bombs have been supplied to them the link is on this thread someplace. It seems to me that an 'enquiry' is a delay tactic to enable more profits to be made before the inquiry decides that export laws have been broken (if indeed they actually do so decide).

e2a from the same article

Minsters have confirmed they have signed off the sale of weapons to Saudi Arabia but say the Saudi Arabians have assured them they are not committing war crimes using British equipment.

 

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so naive and ignorant or deflecting blame. Either way

 

[teqniq]

The UK government is 100% complicit imo. Whether the inquiry decides rules have been broken is another matter entirely.

 

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Anyone near or willing to come to Cardiff this March:

Stop the Cardiff Arms Fair

A quick reminder and have fun. Let me know what you think

 

[teqniq]

A quick reminder and have fun. Let me know what you think

I am working but will be around town at some point as part of my job. Should be interesting though I imagine they'll be shedloads of OB there.

 

[teqniq]

Saudi Arabia-led coalition just killed 40 innocent people in Yemen

 

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And the toll could rise
One day, we will all live in peace.

 

[klang]

on a slightly more positive note - did a couple of fund raising gigs and events and got a fair bit of dosh together. Enough to help to re-build an arts school in Aden (currently concentrating in fine arts and music courses for girls) and to get somebody out of Yemen, which was a diplomatic and logistical nightmare, but looks like he'll be on his way to Europe in the very near future, all legal and legit.

 

[The Pale King]

Good on you!

 

[klang]

Good on you!

nobody seems to give a shit about Yemen, so me and my mates do what we can....lots of money collecting and sending it privately to good causes over there.

 

[teqniq]

Al-Qaeda ‘used surface-to-air missile’ to bring down Emirati fighter jet in Yemen

 

[klang]

Seems like Jewish history in Yemen is officially nearing the end.....

“This chapter in the history of one of the world’s oldest Jewish communities is coming to an end, but Yemenite Jewry’s unique, 2,000-year-old contribution to the Jewish people will continue in the state of Israel,” he added.

Israel airlifts 19 of last remaining Yemeni Jews