Subject: Thirty B52 Support Vehicles Disabled at RAF Fairford
From: Marcus Williamson 
Date: 16 Mar 2003 12:50:47 -0600

Thirty B52 Support Vehicles Disabled at RAF Fairford 
by Trident Ploughshare 7:25pm Fri Mar 14 '03  
 
Last night at RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire two 
Trident Ploughshares activists disabled no less than thirty vehicles
which provide essential support to the US B52 bombers stationed there.

14 March 2003

Thirty B52 Support Vehicles Disabled at RAF Fairford 

Last night at RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire two 
Trident Ploughshares activists disabled no less than thirty vehicles
which provide essential support to the US B52 bombers stationed there.

Freelance writer Margaret Jones (53), from Bristol, 
and Quaker activist Paul Milling (58), from Birmingham, planned to
stick labels onto all the vehicles to warn they had been tampered
with. They carried with them bags of sugar to contaminate the fuel,
grinding paste and treacle to add to the oil systems, spikes to
puncture the tyres, and crowbars & hammers to damage the vehicles.
They reasoned the bombers would be very closely guarded but guessed
the "Achilles Heel" might be the fleet of specialist support vehicles
which are used to service, refuel, and load bombs onto the aircraft. 

The bombers have been recently moved to the Gloucestershire base and
in the event of war will be used to "carpet-bomb" Iraq. Last night a
group of the aircraft took off from RAF Fairford on an exercise and
were refuelled in the air over Northumberland. 

In a phone call from Stroud Police Station early this morning Margaret
Jones said: "We managed to carry out our planned action very
successfully. We evaded the police patrols, cut through the perimeter 
fence, and got into the garages which were unguarded. We managed to 
disable some thirty vehicles. With our politicians out of democratic 
control it is up to ordinary citizens to stop the war machine. I could
not bear the thought of these bombers taking off from our country, 
flying thousands of miles to Iraq, and dropping their cargoes of death
on ordinary people. We felt we personally had to do what we could to 
stop them."

The spectacular disarmament action comes just three days after Trident
Ploughshares activist Ulla Roder inflicted severe damage, estimated in
millions of pounds, to a Tornado jet at RAF Leuchars in Fife.
 
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