BUILT IN BEITH TO BOMB BAGHDAD

BEITH - BAGHDAD - TEHRAN NEXT?

Sunday 4th June 2006

International Day of Child Victims of Aggression

Stop the Arms Trade Week 3rd - 11th June 2006

Iraqi kids FOR ALL OUR CHILDREN CALL AN END TO WAR AND AGGRESSION

Come to Defence Munitions Beith where missiles which were used in the Iraq war were stored, produced and tested.

1pm - Peace picnic
3pm - Naming of some of the dead Iraqi children

Meet outside the main gates. Families welcome.
Bring food to share for the picnic, flowers for the fence and to make a large wreath, and small toys and baby clothes to lay at the fence when naming the dead.

DM Beith is just outside Beith and is signposted on the A737 which bypasses Beith (onto the B706, Barrmill Road.)

A coach will be running from Edinburgh and Glasgow. Leaving Edinburgh 10.30am Waterloo Place and Glasgow 11.30am from George Square and returning after the event. Please phone or text 0787 669 8736 as soon as poss to reserve a seat, (if ansa phone please leave message and a contact number) or email info@act4peace.org.uk

Iraqi kids For public transport details contact Traveline Scotland on 0870 608 2 608. To arrange pick ups from Beith or Barrmill (nearest village to the site) please phone 0787 669 8736.

For more info email info@act4peace.org.uk

Supported by CAAT, SCND, SACC, STOPTHEWAR, Edinburgh Peace&Justice Centre, Edinburgh People&Planet

DM BEITH stores, produces and tests missiles and torpedoes for the UK's Armed Forces. It is the main armaments distribution, administration and maintenance centre in Scotland.

DM BEITH is part of the militarisation of Scotland. It contributes to the dependence the UK has on its military to maintain and extend its position of global economic power, through the forceful oppression of poorer and less powerful nations.

DM BEITH played a major role in the US and UK's war on Iraq. An illegal war which killed over 100,000 Iraqi civilians. A war which has left an already weakened infrastructure in crisis and the country in mayhem.

DM BEITH maintains Tomahawk cruise missiles, one of the major weapon systems for Royal Navy Subs. Fired in Kosovo, Afghanistan and the Iraq war by the UK. The total cost of this cruise missile programme is believed to be approx. £300 million. They total an unquantifiable human cost at an estimated £700,000 each.

DM BEITH prepares and tests Storm Shadow missiles used in the Iraq war by Tornadoes based at RAF Lossiemouth.

DM BEITH maintains Spearfish torpedoes for Trident and cruise missile supplies for hunter-killer submarines based at HMNB Clyde, Faslane.

DM BEITH can produce Brimstone missiles to be used by aircraft such as Tornadoes and Harriers at a rate of 6 per day.

Iraqi kids The depot plays a role in maintaining the status quo, where arms companies are hand in hand with the UK Government as War Profiteers. 60% of work carried out at Beith comes from contracts from arms companies such as BAE Systems and MBDA. The Government pays these arms companies to produce and maintain weapons, and the arms companies then sub-contract the Governments own depots to do much of the work.

In their own words,
"The Defense Storage & Distribution Agency's mission is to sustain the fighting power of the UK armed forces - we stock items worth £75billion. Munitions Win Wars".