At 5am, over one hundred Greenpeace volunteers from the UK, Denmark and the USA invaded Menwith Hill Spy base, near Harrogate, North Yorkshire, to expose the base's proposed role in President George W Bush's 'Star Wars' (National Missile Defence) system. They are currently occupying three areas within the high security site.
Greenpeace activists protesting against US Government plans to deploy a star wars missile system and the US's rejection of the Kyoto Protocol on climate change, today blocked the gates of the Brussels military airport where Bush arrived this morning.
A group of 17 activists chained themselves to the airport gates, made a human chain in front of the gates, carrying banners "George Bush - outlaws not welcome" and "GW Bush wanted for crimes against the planet" referring to rejection of key international treaties on climate change and arms control.
Whichever political party wins the general election, the next British Government will have to decide whether to allow the US to use early warning facilities at RAF Fylingdales and RAF Menwith Hill as part of a Star Wars system. Without the use of these bases the US cannot proceed with the dangerous and destabilising Star Wars programme.
A decision to allow the use of US bases in the UK will have a profoundly negative impact on the future of international security, and will make the UK a target for attack...
