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Kronologi over fredssagen og international politik Oktober 2003 / Time Line October 2003
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10/??/2003
Det er nu 5 måneder siden, at USAs præsident Bush
erklærede krigen i Irak for vundet.
10/??/2003
International symposium on European national monuments,
Leipzig.
10/01/2003
Militær forurening
Der er fundet blyforurening tæt ved det sted, hvor forsvarets
skydebaner lå på den gamle militære
øvelsesplads, Ringsted kommune har købt, skriver
Lokalbladet.
10/01/2003
CONTRACTS from the United States Department of Defense
October 1, 2003
Northrop Grumman Space and Mission Systems Corp., Redondo Beach,
Calif., is being awarded a $56,932,920 cost-plus award-fee contract
modification. The Defense Support Program (DSP) spacecraft
post-production support contract, one-year extension, covering
October 1, 2003 through September 30, 2004. The requirement
consists of the following: Storage and storage support of the DSP
satellites in accordance with satellites environmental
requirements, annual testing of stored satellites, trend analysis,
integration returns (repair and return failed/obsolete component),
perform safety analysis, load analysis, maintain all launch vehicle
and launch site interface documentation, meet all launch site
safety requirements, perform multiple readiness reviews and
rehearsals, test and prepare satellite for launch site, perform
launch vehicle integration, perform multiple integrated system
tests, sustaining engineering of the on-orbit satellites (multiple
block build), early in orbit testing support for newly launched
satellites, anomaly operational performance analysis for
performance assessments, mission performance improvement, including
recommendations for retrofitting satellites in storage. No funds
have been obligated. This work will be complete by September 2004.
Solicitation began January 2003 and Negotiations were completed
September 2003. The Headquarters Space and Missile Systems Center,
Los Angeles Air Force Base, Calif., is the contracting activity
(F04701-96-C-0030, P00097).
Harris Technical Services Corp., Colorado Springs, Colo., is being
awarded a $46,775,187 cost-plus award-fee contract modification to
provide for communications, operations, maintenance services to be
provided to Air Force Space Command’s 50th Space Wing, to
include: configuration management, electrical power systems
management, communications systems engineering, small computer
hardware maintenance, and database applications support 24 hour
maintenance management, industrial safety, communications security,
information management, local area network management,
communications network control center operations, and visual
information management, communications circuit management,
satellite control center support, computer operations support,
communications-computer systems maintenance and operation for the
Defense Satellite Communications System, Secure Communication
System, MILSTAR, and other operations in support of the Air Force
Satellite Control Network. Report is for announcement of Exercise
of Option only. Harris Technical Services will perform this effort
Schriever Air Force Base, Colo. Total funds have been obligated.
This work will be complete by September 2004. The 50th Contracting
Squadron, Schriever Air Force Base, Colo., is the contracting
activity (FA2550-02-C-0007, P00019).
ARCTEC Services, Colorado Springs, Colo., is being awarded a
$41,094,046 fixed price incentive fee contract modification to fund
option-Year 4, Fiscal Year 2004 (1 October 2003 through 30
September 2004) to manage, operate, maintain, and logistically
support the solid state phase array radar system at Cape Code AFS,
MA; Beale Air Force Base, Calif.; Thule Air Base, GL; Clear AS, AK
and RAD Flyingdales, UK. ARCTEC will perform this effort in
Colorado Springs and at Clear Air Force Station, Alaska (68%), and
at other locations. Total funds have been obligated. This work will
be complete by September 2004. The 21st Space Wing, Peterson Air
Force Base, Colo., is the contracting activity (F05604-99-C-9004,
P00298).
Honeywell International Incorporated, Clearwater, Fla., is being
awarded an $18,382,653 cost-plus fixed-fee contract to provide for
Prototype guidance instruments for strategic boosters/strategic
re-entry vehicles. At this time, $5,057,000 of the funds has been
obligated. Further funds will be obligated as individual delivery
orders are issued. This work will be complete by May 2006.
Solicitation began July 2002 and negotiations were completed
September 2003. The Air Force Research Laboratory, Kirtland Air
Force Base, N.M., is the contracting activity
(F29601-03-C-0124).
10/02/2003
Chefen for USAs eftersøgning efter
masseødelæggelsesvåben i Irak, David Kay
konfluderer, at der ikke er fundet
masseødelæggelsesvåben i Irak.
10/03/2003
Dansk oprustning
Danmark og Sverige underskrev i dag en kontrakt om bygningen af i
alt seks nye ubåde.
Det svenske forsvars materielkommando underskrev kontrakten
på vegne af de to landes forsvar, oplyser
Søværnets Materielkommando.
Kontrakten betyder, at Danmark i 2009 modtager den første i
serien af de såkaldte Viking- ubåde.
Det svenske værft Kockums AB og Odense Staalskibsværft
A/S skal i samarbejde med de to landes forsvarsindustri stå
for bygningen af ubådene, skriver Jyllands-Posten.
10/05/2003
Ekstra Bladet udsender hvidbogen 'Løgnen om Irak'.
10/06/2003
Modtageren af årets
the Right Livelihood Award offentliggøres i
Stockholm. Modtageren af hædersprisen for 2003 er den
forhenværende New Zealandske prierminister David Lange
'som i mange år utrætteligt arbejdede for at befri
verden for kernevåben'.
10/06/2003
The Psychology Department at the University of Massachusetts,
Amherst is starting a new Ph.D. concentration in 'the Psychology of
Peace and the Prevention Of Violence', initiated by a generous
endowment.
Director
Peace Psychology Program
Department of Psychology
Tobin Hall
University of Massachusetts
Amherst, MA 01003
10/07/2003
Valg i Californien. Republikaneren Arnold
Schwarzenegger vinder valget.
Pentagon Selling Bioweapons Tools
The Pentagon could inadvertently be providing terrorists with
special equipment that would enable them to make biological
weapons, according to a draft report from the General Accounting
Office obtained by ABCNEWS.
According to the report, which is due to be released Tuesday,
Congress ordered the GAO - its investigative arm - to set up a
phony company to see how easy it would be to buy surplus lab
equipment from the Pentagon.
Using fake names, GAO investigators went to a Web site that sells
Pentagon surplus and ordered items needed to produce
bacteriological weapons, including evaporators, centrifuges,
bacteriological incubators and protective clothing.
In its report, the GAO found that the "Department of Defense has
not attempted to determine who is buying excess biological
equipment or how these items were being used."
"This is a real danger, and it is something we've got to close, a
loophole that we've got to close right now," said Daryl Kimball,
executive director of the Arms Control Association, a nonprofit
organization that advocates effective arms control policies.
A Terrorist's Bargain
The GAO also found that some buyers who had recently purchased
used equipment from the Pentagon then resold it to countries where
terrorists have operated, such as Malaysia, the Philippines and
Egypt.
"The Department of Defense has not been paying attention to this
back door, with a domestic market that can allow it to be sold
abroad," Kimball said.
And the Pentagon has been selling the equipment at bargain prices.
Some equipment that the Pentagon paid $46,000 for was sold to
investigators for $4,100. That could be a real bargain for
potential terrorists.
Litteratur: The General Accounting Office: Foreign
Military Sales: Air Force Does Not Use Controls to Prevent Spare
Parts Containing Sensitive Military Technology from Being Released
to Foreign Countries. GAO-03-939R, September 10, 2003. -
http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-03-939R
10/08/2003
Møde i Uddenrigspolitisk nævn om der skal
'gennemføres en undersøgelse eller høring om
Danmarks krigsdeltagelse' i Irak.
10/08/2003
Det tyrkiske parlament har vedtaget at sende op mod 10.000 soldater
til Irak, skriver Information.
10/09/2003
Amnesty
International starter international kampagne for
våbenkontrol
Baggrunden for kampagnen er, at handel med våben er ude af
kontrol. Hvert minut bliver et menneske dræbt af illegale
våben i en af verdens borgerkrige eller i opgør mellem
kriminelle bander i en af verdens mange storbyer.
Våbenhandlere sælger uden skrupler til købere,
som krænker de internationale menneskerettigheder og
humanitære love. Amnesty samarbejder med
bistandsorganisationerne Oxfam International, IANSA og
International Network on Small Arms om kampagnen, hvis formål
er at standse illegal handel med våben og få alle
verdens regeringer til at underskrive en FN-traktat om
våbenkontrol ? en traktat, som gerne skal vedtages på
FN's våbenkonference i 2006.
Litteratur: Milmo, Cahal: Verdens skydevåben ude af
kontrol. I: Information, 10/14/2003.
10/09/2003
Afrustning ; Danmark
Hjemmeværnet afruster alle luftmeldetårne, skriver
Hjemmeværnsbladet.
10/09/2003
Rigsrevisionen skal gennemgå Hjemmeværnets effektivitet
med focus på uddannelsesområdet, skriver
Hjemmeværnsbladet.
10/10/2003
Modtageren af årets
Nobelfredspris offentliggøres. Prisen tildeles den
iranske menneskerettighedsforkæmper Shirin Ebadi.
10/10/2003
Folketinget vedtager
beslutningsforslag om 'styrkelse af det danske bidrag til den
multinationale sikringsstyrke i Irak'.
10/10/2003
Amerikanske tilstande
Regeringen vil gøre det nemmere for borgerne, at anskaffe
håndvåben, skriver Information.
10/11/2003
US Homeland Security - Group Alleges Police Scrutiny
Peace Fresno Says Late Detective in Anti-Terror Unit was at
Meetings.
He was the quiet guy. The one who came to Peace Fresno meetings,
always sitting in the same spot, taking notes but never taking part
in the discussions. For two months, ending in May, he sat through
planning meetings, passed out anti-war fliers and went to rallies.
He said his name was Aaron Stokes. When asked about his job, he
said he was independently wealthy.
Members of Peace Fresno now say he was Aaron Kilner, an undercover
sheriff's detective who died in an off-duty motorcycle accident
August 30.
Fresno County Sheriff Richard Pierce would not say whether Kilner
attended meetings, but he said Peace Fresno "was not and is not the
subject of any investigation by the Fresno County Sheriff's
Department."
Pierce said his department "does not have any reports, files,
rosters or notes on Peace Fresno or its meetings."
However, in a four-paragraph statement issued Thursday, he defended
his department's legal right to send undercover officers to
community meetings.
"For the purpose of detecting or preventing terrorist activities,
the Fresno County Sheriff's Department may visit any place and
attend any event that is open to the public, on the same terms and
conditions as members of the public generally."
In a time when issues over security versus personal liberties are
at the forefront of a national debate, members of Peace Fresno say
an undercover officer at a political meeting brings the controversy
close to home, writes Diana Marcum, The Fresno Bee.
10/11/2003
Many soldiers, same letter : Newspapers around U.S. get
identical missives from Iraq
LEDYARD KING GANNETT NEWS SERVICE
WASHINGTON -- Letters from hometown soldiers describing their
successes rebuilding Iraq have been appearing in newspapers across
the country as U.S. public opinion on the mission sours. And all
the letters are the same.
A Gannett News Service search found identical letters from
different soldiers with the 2nd Battalion of the 503rd Airborne
Infantry Regiment, also known as "The Rock," in 11 newspapers,
including Snohomish, Wash. The Olympian received two identical
letters signed by different hometown soldiers.
10/12/2003
Der udkommer ingen danske landsdækkende aviser på grund
af en strejke blandt trykkeriarbejdere.
10/13/2003
Flere danske soldater til Irak
Folketinget vedtager beslutningsforslag om styrkelse af det danske
bidrag til den multinationale sikringsstyrke i Irak.
10/15/2003
Det amerikanske militær har sendt et team af eksperter til
Irak for at undersøge et foruroligende antal selvmord blandt
de amerikanske soldater. Raten kan være op til tre gange det
normale. Ud over selvmordene er 478 soldater hjemsendt af mentale
grunde, skriver Berlingske Tidende.
10/15/2003
Nya riktlinjer för svensk vapenexport
Demokrati och utveckling är hörnstenar i en ettårig
utredning för nya och restriktiva riktlinjer för
vapenexport som Svenska Freds- och Skiljedomsföreningen
tillsätter idag. Svenska Freds granskning är en
skuggutredning av regeringens egna översyn av regelverket.
- Det är bra att regeringen vill se över lagen om
krigsmateriel. Men det räcker inte med en översyn, det
måste också till kraftfulla åtgärder. Vi
kräver att vapenexporten regleras mycket hårt och att
tillämpningen av riktlinjerna sker korrekt och strikt,
säger Svenska Freds ordförande Frida Blom.
Den fortsatta vapenexporten till USA under Irakkriget ledde till
att den ansvariga myndigheten, ISP, anmäldes till
Justitiekanslern och att regeringen anmäldes till
Konstitutionsutskottet. En dryg månad därefter tillsatte
regeringen en utredning som ska se över lagen om
krigsmateriel.
- Det nya regelverket måste bygga på principen om att
vapenexport får inte strida mot grundläggande
värden som fred, demokrati, mänskliga rättigheter
och utveckling, säger Frida Blom.
Till utredare har Svenska Freds utsett Rolf Lindahl. Utredaren ska
till oktober 2004 granska det svenska systemet för insyn i och
kontroll av vapenexporten och presentera förslag för
framtiden, skriver Svenska Freds.
10/15/2003
U.S. Army Should Expedite Destruction of Chemical Weapons at
Anniston
WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Army should pursue options to accelerate the
disposal of rockets that contain gelled sarin -- a toxic chemical
warfare agent -- currently stored at the Anniston Chemical Agent
Disposal Facility in Alabama, says a new report from the National
Academies' National Research Council. By safely speeding the
disposal of these rockets -- which currently take about 30 times
longer to destroy than rockets containing liquid nerve agents --
the Army can reduce risks to the public resulting from their
extended storage, said the committee that wrote the report.
"Because there is a small chance that stored sarin- and VX-filled
rockets might self-ignite at any time and release toxic agents and
metals, these rockets need to be destroyed as soon as possible,"
said James F. Mathis, a retired engineer from Exxon Corp. in
Houston, and chair of the committee. "The Army has developed a plan
that would safely destroy all of the Anniston rockets, but the
disposal rate for gelled rockets -- which were not part of the
original plan -- would take almost an extra year."
In 1999 the Army discovered gelled rockets -- in which sarin that
was originally liquid becomes gel, apparently as a result of a
chemical reaction between sarin and aluminum from the inner lining
of the rocket -- at the Tooele Chemical Agent Disposal Facility in
Utah. The Army later developed a technique that safely processed
gelled rockets.
10/16/2003
World Uranium
Weapons Conference
From October 16th-19th the World Uranium Weapons Conference was
held in Hamburg Germany. A mixture of activists, scientists and
veterans came to the conference from all over the world, including
two scientists from Iraq. Images and documents from the conference
can be viewed at: http://traprockpeace.org/du_hamburg_03
10/17/2003
On Friday, October 17, 2003, a six-person jury of citizens from
Hennepin County declared that International Law can trump the local
private property/no trespass law. At the height of the recent war
against Iraq, on April 2, 2003, 28 Minnesotans "crossed the line,"
entering the world headquarters property of Alliant TechSystems
Corporation in Edina with the express purpose of conducting a
"Citizens' Weapons Inspection."
The letter they carried demanded that they have access to the books
and records of Alliant TechSystems Corporation (ATK) to see if they
had completed any studies on the medical and environmental effects
of the DU uranium munitions they produce. The defendants contended
that there is significant evidence that the DU munitions produced
by ATK containing U-238, a radioactive substance with a half-life
of 4.5 billion years, is a prime suspect in escalating rates of
cancers and birth defects among residents of southern Iraq and US
troops who served in the first Gulf War. On April 2, 2003, 28
activists crossed the line and entered Alliant TechSystems. On
October 17, 2003 a public trial was held and all 28 were found not
guilty, writes CADU NEWS, 2003:16..
10/19/2003
Besættelsesmagten handler som ejer af irakisk
ejendom
Amerikanske myndigheder i Irak udsender Ordre 39, som
'lovliggør fuld udenlandsk ejersakb af statsejede irakiske
værdier, minus olien'. Ordren menes at vræe i strid med
folkeretten.
Kilde: Jørgensen, Mette: Ulovlig udsalg af
irakiske værdier. I: Information, 11/01/2003.
Klein, Naomi: USA sælger ud af irakiske værdier.
I: Information, 11/08/2003.
US Army Law of Land Warfare?
10/21/2003
Det danske flyvevåben modtager tre Hercules-fly fra Lockheed
Martin, noterer Hjemmeværnsbladet, 2003:7.
10/23/2003
Folketingets præsidium opfordrer til at revurdere afslag
på Irak-høring, skriver Information.
10/24/2003
FN-dagen.
10/25/2003
Demonstration mod besætttelsen af Irak i Washington DC. Deen
største demonstration i USAs hovedstad siden 1. maj.
Nyhedsbureauerne AP, AFP, Reuters og BBC rundsender det samme
enslydende telegram om 'about 20,000 gathered at the Washington
Monument, within sight of the White House, carrying posters calling
for the withdrawal of US troops from Iraq'.
10/29/2003
"Der er ikke på nuværende tidspunkt truffet beslutning
om anskaffelse af nye ubåde, men spørgsmålet
herom vil indgå i de kommende politiske forhandlinger om et
nyt forsvarsforlig," meddeler forsvarsminister Svend Aage Jensby
til Spm. nr. S 326.
10/30/2003
Den danske våbenfabrikant Weibel Scientific A/S
overtræder miljølov på den private ø
Hesselø, der både er fredet og under EU-beskyttelse,
skriver Information. Naturklagenævnets afgørelse i
sagen i juni 2004.
Litteratur: Dahlin, Ulrik: En række objektivt
forkerte oplysninger. I: Information, 02/03/2004.
Dahlin, Ulrik: Frederiksborg Amt: 13 svipsere på
Hesselø. I: Information, 11/12/2003.
Dahlin, Ulrik: Fly vil genere sæler på
Hesselø. I: Information, 01/13/2004.
Dahlin, Ulrik: Ingen sæl-yngleplads til foråret.
I: Information, 10/31/2003.
Dahlin, Ulrik: Middelalder-bosted på Hesselø
ødelagt. I: Information, 11/08/2003.
Dahlin, Ulrik: Nu også ulovlig landingsbane på
Hesselø. I: Information, 11/04/2003.
Dahlin, Ulrik: Påbud: Fjern flyveplads og havn på
Hesselø. I: Information, 11/27/2003.
Dahlin, Ulrik:Weibel A/S opgiver lufthavn på
Hesselø. I: Information, 01/22/2006.
Dahlin, Ulrik: Våbenfirma sparede millionudgift ved at
smadre fortidsminder. I: Information, 12/08/2003.
Dahlin, Ulrik: Weibel får afvist klage i
Naturklagenævnet. I: Information, 11/28/2003.
Ritzaus Bureau: Hesselø-ejere fik rabat i miljøsag. I: Politiken, 05/24/2006.
Ritzaus Bureau: Hesselø kan koste skatteydere penge.
I: Information, 12/10/2003.
10/31/2003
Danmarks Miljøundersøgelsers rapport om forureningen
ved Thulebasen er,
ifølge ingeniørfirmaet Carl Bro, ubrugelig, skriver
Information.
10/31/2003
Norge anvender langt flere penge pr. indbygger på forsvaret
end de andre nordiske lande. Også flere end de fleste
NATO-lande, noterer Berlingske Tidende.
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