[IMC-Editorial] WARNING TO AIRLINE PASSENGERS
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AfricaNode at ecoterra.net
Mon Dec 2 16:23:06 PST 2002
The the reasons for the warning, issued by the
Icelandic group PEACE 2000, don't go away by harrassing
the warner!!!
WARNING: Icelandair, Atlanta, Air France, Iberia,
Virgin Atlantic, Malaysia Airlines, Saudia Airlines,
Air Algerie, Excel Airways, Garuda Indonesia, Air Asia,
Southern Winds Airlines, Nigeria Airways, Aeromar.
These airlines may be using aircraft under contract to
fly dangerous weapons and troops.
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1. December 2002
Corrupt Members of Icelandic Parliament engaged in
scandal cover-up
Hundreds of protest letters from all over the world
are flooding email boxes of
parliamentarians, civil servants and the media in
Iceland. It´s really working! They are
now running so scared they have started using corrupt
members of parliament to call peace
activists and lie to them about our story.
The latest is a member of the Left/Green Party, Mr.
Arni Steinar Johannsson, called an
activist in the USA and told him that the prison I was
held in is like a "country club" and
nothing like what I have described. A reporter wanted
to photograph the prison cell, but the
police refused. We should demand the prison cell
being shown to the media, preferably the
International media.
The media in Iceland has systematically been used to
try to discredit me. Hardly anyone has
the guts to speak out. Members of parliament do not
want to disturb their opposition too much
because after upcoming elections they may need their
support for forming a multi-party
government. What is happening here is the death of a
one thousand year old democracy.
Employees of the newspapers DV have made physical
threats against my person which are now
being investigated by the police. I call on you to
ask your newspaper and TV media contacts
to see the prison cell I was kept in and send a
request for this to: althing at peace.is Your
message will immediately be distributed to all members
of parliament, civil servants and the
media in Iceland.
Kind regards and thank you for all your support. Thor
Magnusson - thor at peace2000.org
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1. December 2002
WARNING TO AIR PASSENGERS:
WARNING: Icelandair, Atlanta, Air France, Iberia,
Virgin Atlantic, Malaysia Airlines, Saudia
Airlines, Air Algerie, Excel Airways, Garuda
Indonesia, Air Asia, Southern Winds Airlines,
Nigeria Airways, Aeromar. These airlines may be using
aircraft under contract to fly
dangerous weapons and troops.
The Prime Minister of Iceland Mr. David Oddsson has
announced an agreement with civil
airlines intended to strengthening NATO military
operations by placing the transport capacity
of passenger aircraft at the disposal of NATO to move
weapons and troops. Former Icelandic
Presidential Candidate, Mr. Thor Magnusson leader of
the Peace 2000 movement, was imprisoned
when alerting police, members of parliament, civil
servants and airlines to the immediate
danger this poses to airline passengers that now may
be flying in aircraft which form a part
of the NATO military program. Mr. Oddsson said
movement of weapons with these aircraft could
start as soon as military agression is launched
against Iraq. Many believe the agreement
makes these aircraft a legitimate target for opponents
in NATO warfare.
Peace 2000 contacted both Icelandair and Air Atlanta
asking for details of the agreement, and
for more details about armaments transport the Prime
Minister said to news reporters have
already taken place with Atlanta aircraft. After
meeting with the chief of the Icelandic Air
Safety Board Mr. Petur Maack, Peace 2000 has a reason
to believe international air safety
regulations, the JAR protocol, has been compromised. A
reason for additional alarm is the
airlines refusal to give Peace 2000 any details of the
agreement or activities related to
this agreement.
INTERNATIONAL WARNING:
Please be aware that if you are intending to travel
with Icelandair or Air Atlanta you may be
posed to additional security risk. In the opinion of
Peace 2000 these aircraft may now fall
within the category of targets described by Osama Bin
Laden and his followers. Bin Laden’s
call for terror published Sunday 24th November in the
British Press is an additional cause
for alarm.
Icelandair operates a trans-atlantic route from
Minneappolis/St.Paul, New York, Boston,
Baltimore/Washington, Orlando/Florida in the USA to:
Reykjavik, Helsinki, Oslo, Stockholm,
Copenhagen, Glasgow, London, Amsterdam, Frankfurt,
Paris, Milano and Barcelona.
Air Atlanta operates under it´s own name, but many of
their aircraft are camouflaged in the
colors and identity of other carriers. According to
Atlanta´s website these include: Virgin
Atlantic, Air France, Saudia, Air Algerie, Iberia,
Excel Airways, Garuda Indonesia, Air Asia,
Nigeria Airways, Aeromar, Malaysia Airlines, Southern
Winds and various holiday tour
operators flying out of London Gatwick airport. Known
routes are: Buenous Aires to Miami and
Madrid, Jeddah, Kuala Lumpor, Lagos, London Gatwick,
London Heathrow for Virgin Atlantic to
Lagos Nigeria, Manchester UK for Virgin Atlantic to
Orlando Florida, Santo Domingo for
Aeromar to Carribian Islands and the USA.
Peace 2000 suggests the following precautions to
passengers:
1. Call your airline to make sure that they are not
using aircraft from Icelandair or
Atlanta.
2. You can recognize Icelandic aircraft by their
registration ID which starts with TF-
3. If you have other travel options, select a
different airline
4. If you do not have other options, take out life
insurance for the benefit of your
family.
If you already hold a reservation or have paid for
your ticket:
In the opinion of Peace 2000 the use of civil aircraft
for military purposes is a breach of
international regulations. You should therefore be
able to demand a full refund of your
ticket.
If you are about to board aircraft and see it’s
registration starts with TF-
Demand to fly with another aircraft or a full refund
of your ticket.
To protest by email:
Send email to: althing at peace.is Your message will
immediately be forwarded to government
offices, members of parliament, civil servents and
airlines.
Media Contact:
Thor Magnusson - Peace 2000 – Vogasel 1 – 109
Reykjavik – Iceland.
Telephone: +354 557 1000. Fax: +354 552 2000. -
www.peace2000.org - Email:
thor at peace2000.org
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30. November 2002
"WARNING TO AIRLINE PASSENGERS" sent to Icelandic
Police for Censorship.
The Airlines have refused to answer our letter and
enquiry. As a result Peace 2000 has today
sent to the Icelandic Police Commissioner text we
want to issue as a warning to passengers
intending to travel on Icelandair and Air Atlanta.
The chief of police is being asked if the
text will result in a second arrest of Thor
Magnusson. We have taken certain precautions in
the circumstances the police would not reply to the
draft text but would illegally arrest and
detain Thor in prison isolation as last week. To make
sure they cannot stop the warning on
such illegal basis, the text has also been sent for
safe keeping to selected activists both
in Iceland and internationally. If our warning has
not been issued by midnight GMT 30th.
November, and if there is no update on this website or
if this website is down, you should
expect that something is wrong. The Hausman Peace
Project is one of the people that has been
sent a copy of the Warning to Airline Passengers for
safe storage.
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29. November 2002:
Peace 2000 leader arrested and imprisoned & our
computers confiscated in Iceland!
Last Friday Icelandic Prime Minister Mr. David Oddsson
and Foreign Minister Mr. Halldor
Asgrimsson surprised and shocked most of our formerly
peaceful nation with an announcement
from the NATO meeting in Prague, that Iceland is no
longer a by-stander in military actions
and that an agreement has been made with two Icelandic
public transport airlines, Icelandair
and Atlanta, to use their passenger aircraft for
transportation of NATO weapons and soldiers.
We have never had a military following a peace meeting
by the Vikings at our Althing in the
year 1000! But our misguided Prime Minister Mr.
Oddsson said this new policy of his
government is to "strengthen the military might of the
NATO alliance" and to "fly troops and
military equipment to war areas and that the Icelandic
government would pay for it". The news
indicated the first flight operation using Icelandic
passenger aircraft for the
transportation of weapons and troops may be as soon as
with an upcoming war with Iraq that
the Prime Minister expects that NATO and his
government will support.
I issued a warning immediately on Friday that any
agreement linking the use of passenger
aircraft with NATO or with the transportation of
weapons and troops will compromise the
security of those aircraft - also when conducting
normal passenger flights.
Within hours of my warning Friday I was arrested by
the Icelandic Police. I was taken from a
restaurant down town by secret police that was in no
uniform into an unmarked car. They
refused to let my fiancee and the other people I was
with in the restaurant know that I was
being arrested. A man simply asked me to come with him
outside for a moment, and there he
arrested me. They could have ditched anywhere and
nobody would have known!!! I was thrown
into jail and kept there for several days in complete
isolation. The first night I was kept
in a cell without any toilet and had to do my things
on the floor!!! Only when the High Court
heard an appeal the Police released me.
But it does not seem to be the end! News report last
night said that the police was looking
at another letter I sent to the directors of the
airlines yesterday, and that today they will
make a decision for further action. Our lawyer
suggested I sleep the night in hiding
somewhere.
People have been phoning us constantly - everyone is
shocked. Lawyers say that the arrest has
no foundation in law. Our best-known human rights
lawyer, Mr. Ragnar Adalsteinsson took it up
by himself to speak out in a shock over this on TV
while I was in the prison. He tells me the
law professors at the Reykjavik University are also
shocked. EkstraBladet, a major newspaper
in Denmark, said that the imprisonment of the leader
of Peace 2000, former Icelandic
Presidential Candidate AstThor Magnusson was an
obvious action to "shut the mouth of the
opposition".
A man called me last night and told me that he has
knowledge that my arrest was decided in
the Prime Ministers office building. Politicians are
not supposed to have any influence on
the police here, but this seems to be changing now.
The police raided the Peace 2000 offices and my home
in the middle of the night and
confiscated computers. They have refused to return the
computers and are keeping all member
databases and contact lists. Earlier this year, when
the President of China visted Iceland,
the Icelandic police worked with a "black list" of
Falun Gong practitioners that wanted to do
a peaceful demonstration against Human Rights abuses
in China. On instructions from the
government of China as it seems, they arrested whole
groups of Falun Gong tourists upon
arrival in the country and kept them in a detention
centre. The Icelandic police also got the
airlines to cooperate and give access to reservation
lists to refuse boarding in foreign
airports if their name was found on the black list
from China. We fear that they have now
started to create a black lists of the Peace 2000
members and that this may be used in a
similar way as with the Falun Gong black list.
We have written to the directors of both airlines. We
have asked them to increase security
immediately and to terminate said armaments transport
agreement forthwith. In our opinion,
while any such agreements are in place, these aircraft
are at increased risk as they seem in
that situation to fall exactly within the description
of targets by terrorist groups. It is
clear that my warning and calling for extra security
last Friday was valid. While I was being
detained in prison, the UK Observer newspaper printed
a new letter from Osama Bin Laden where
he calls for terrorist attacks against civilian
targets. Yesterday there was an attempt to
shoot down an Israeli passenger aircraft.
Many fear that the Icelandic government ministers have
become so corrupt that they may try to
use the police again today to send me back to prison
in an attempt to stop me talking about
this.
PLEASE SEND YOUR PROTEST:
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Please protest my arrest by immediate email and ask
your contact lists to do same. In
Icelandic my name is written: Astthor Magnusson.
Please also demand that the Peace 2000
computers and data are returned immediately. We've
created a mailing list that will
distribute your message automatically to all Icelandic
Members of Parliament, Civil Servants,
the Airlines and to the Icelandic Media. You can send
your message to: althing at peace.is
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