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PRESS RELEASE - 19 June 2000 ILLEGALITY OF STAR WARS CHALLENGED BY DISMANTLING NEW TOP SECURITY ALARMED ANTI-INTRUDER FENCE AT MENWITH HILL, N. YORKS. Three women this morning cut their way into the U.S. National Security Agency Space-War Spy Base at Menwith Hill in an attempt to dismantle the new fence that serves to protect the new and illegal developments in which the base plays a key role. Anne Lee, a local Otley woman who has been campaigning against the base for several years at the Menwith Hill Women's Peace Camp, Helen John, from the Menwith Hill campaign and also a member of Trident Ploughshares 2000, and Angie Zelter, also of the Trident Ploughshares 2000 non-violent direct action campaign, used bolt-croppers to get through a top security alarmed anti-intruder fence, which has been recently erected in advance of the new role the base will play in anti-ballistic missile (ABM) "defence", or Star Wars. The women were arrested at approximately 10.50 am and are currently being held at the police station on the base. Angie Zelter said, "This base plays a key role in NATO military intelligence. Even if we get rid of Trident tomorrow, they are still planning to have new nuclear-powered weapons in space. Ballistic missile defence undermines the entire international legal order. The Americans are just running ahead without consulting anyone." Helen John said, "I'm doing this because I oppose the threat that Star Wars poses to the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty and the Outer Space Treaty. They say the system is for 'defence,' but it can just as easily be used as an offensive weapon against any nation which does anything the United States doesn't like. And they can find out what everyone is doing through the Echelon system, which sifts key target words through the computers here." Anne Lee said, "There is a threat of terrorist attacks at Menwith Hill, and local people are concerned about this. They've just spent thousands on an anti-intruder system which isn't secure at all." The women also pointed to the hypocrisy of pretending the decision on deploying the ABM system hadn't been made yet, when millions of dollars have already been spent preparing the ground base and its linked satellites for the new space-based weapons. Menwith Hill won an award for monitoring Iraqi troop communications during the Gulf War, in which over 100,000 Iraqis were killed, and after which thousands of Iraqi civilians and NATO veterans were struck with a multi-symptomed syndrome due to chemical and radiological exposures. Menwith Hill also plays a role in both economic and military espionage. The information it downloads from satellites can also be fed to targeting systems for cruise missiles and other weaponry. Members of Parliament are only allowed to ask very limited questions about the base's top-secret operations. For More Information Contact the Menwith Hill Women's Peace Camp(aign): 01943-468593 Or the Trident Ploughshares 2000 Press Contact on: 01324 880744 or (07775711054) Bruce K. Gagnon Coordinator Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space PO Box 90083 Gainesville, FL. 32607 (352) 337-9274 http://www.globenet.free-online.co.uk [EMAIL PROTECTED]
