Defense industry Action will show leopard's teeth

The theologian Margot Kaessmann, famous for her drunkenness, stands in
Berlin on Thursday at the press of the Action cry "Stop the Arms
Trade" in front of a banner with the slogan of the campaign.
Berlin / MZ. A general ban on arms exports wants the "outcry Action -
Stop the Arms Trade 'reach. These have now over 100 local and regional
initiatives together, especially the peace movement influenced by
Christianity. As a patron wants the former President of the EKD,
Margot Kaessmann, give the alliance a popular face. Currently, the
protest action, two focal points: the planned export of 200 Leopard
main battle tanks to Saudi Arabia and the delivery of advanced G 36
rifle made by Heckler and Koch in over 30 countries.

Kaessmann theologian called the tank deal yesterday in Berlin a
"disastrous signal to the freedom movements in the Arab world." The
supply of weapons to fight wars and domestic repression was an
"ongoing scandal of German foreign policy."

The Alliance has taken a Heckler and Koch major producers of small
arms to target. Its ultra-modern rifle was the cruelest weapon there,
said campaign spokesman Juergen Grasslin. Two-thirds of all war
victims killed by bullets came. G-36 rifles were used among others in
Libya, Mexico and Georgia. The federal government does nothing to the
German arms export rules to enforce, criticized the alliance
initiatives.

About 100 000 people have been protesting against the tank on the
Internet export. The alliance seeks long-term recording of the set of
the Basic Law: the "war weapons and other military goods are not
exported in principle." The export of weapons to countries of NATO and
the EU must be justified individually. The details shall be governed
by the notions of "action outcry" an arms export law that would ensure
transparency and parliamentary participation.

Of course, not as far-reaching goals could be achieved in a day,
conceded Kaessmann. But ultimately, the nuclear phase-out against
great opposition had been enforced. First, the organizations want to
make the issue of "arms exports" to the subject of the next federal
election campaign.