Anti-war campaigners to protest against airbase plans to fly US drones
Protesters hold a CND flag in Parliament Square in London, in 2015
ANTI-WAR campaigners will gather outside a military airbase in Gloucestershire on Saturday to oppose plans to fly US spy drones from Britain.
The action by Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) and Drone Wars targets the operation of US Global Hawk drones from RAF Fairford as part of Nato’s Agile Combat Employment programme, which aims to make it harder for adversaries to conduct pre-emptive strikes.
CND general secretary Sophie Bolt said: “The Global Hawk is part of the US spying apparatus and has been for decades, from the devastating invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan to supporting Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
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