Activists arrested after boarding National Guard plane

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in Scotland

By Bryan Mitchell, Stars and Stripes
European edition, Wednesday, August 9, 2006

RAF MILDENHALL, England — More than a dozen self-described “international weapons inspectors” face charges in a Scottish court after breaching security at Glasgow’s Prestwick International Airport and boarding two aircraft — including a U.S. Air National Guard plane — in three separate incidents.

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Trident Ploughshares, which describes itself as a campaign to disarm the U.K. Trident nuclear weapons system “in a non-violent ... and fully accountable manner,” issued a press release on its Web site, www.tridentploughshares.org, hours after it claimed to have searched an Air National Guard plane.

“Inspectors searched a USAF Air National Guard plane and examined documentation and manuals before moving on to attempt to examine a Polar Air aircraft that was also present,” the release stated.

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Last week dozens of protesters gathered outside RAF Mildenhall to protest Atlas Air flights that they alleged carried materiel en route to the Middle East.

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