 LONDON - Protesters demonstrated on Monday outside a British air base believed to have been used at the weekend by US flights transporting weapons to Israel. Around 30 campaigners gathered outside the US Air Force-operated RAF Mildenhall base in eastern England, where two US flights are thought to have stopped over to refuel after being diverted away from Glasgow Prestwick Airport.
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Two previous flights which stopped at Prestwick caused a diplomatic mini-spat because the United States had not informed Britain of the hazardous nature of their cargo. “This will only add to the worsening humanitarian crisis,” said Peter Lanyon, 73, of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. “These flights are probably carrying “bunker-buster’ missiles and, because Britain has told America to fly these things through our midst, everyone who goes about their daily lives without saying something is allowing the government to get away with it.”
About 150 people demonstrated outside Prestwick Airport on Sunday. |