The world's largest nuclear weapons club and war machine, NATO, is coming to Lapland in northern Sweden on June 8th -16th, for their largest military air exercise in 2009. Altogether, 60 fighter jets and 2 000 soldiers will gather in Sweden (officially a non-Nato state!) to train for war. The British aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious, with 1000 soldiers on board, will be stationed in the Gulf of Botnia outside the city of Luleå.

The desicion to invite NATO was taken outside of the democratic process. The Swedish Parliament's Defence Commitee was not even informed until after they had been invited.

NATO will not be welcomed with open arms by everyone. The anti-militaristic direct action network Ofog will try to stop and disturb the exercise by any nonviolent means necessary. "Just like NATO we will be in the air, on the land and in the sea." said an Ofog spokesperson. Ofog will build on its experience from blockading Faslane, NATO summits and other military institutions as well as conducting radical direct actions against the Swedish weapons industry. "We will do everything in our power to show NATO that  their business is hidious and deadly. NATO is not a defensive alliance.  Its main purpose is to maintain western dominance and it must be stopped, not just in Sweden but across the world."

As part of the resistance Reality AB (Ofogs new subsidiary) will provide collateral damage services for NATO's exercise. A Reality AB spokesperson said "The state of Sweden is providing everything else for the exercise: airspace, areas to bomb, airports and other logistical support. However they have missed one critical component, the collateral damage. Reality AB is offering to upgrade the exercise by providing this crucial missing ingredient. In NATO's wars, 90% of the victims are civilians. The exercise will only be realistic with our collateral damage stand-ins. With the expansion of NATO and the militarisation of EU we see this as a growing market and an exciting business opportunity in a hard financial climate."

To narrow it down: war kills. NATO is training for war, which means they are training to kill. This must be stopped.
Place: Luleå, Arctic circle, Sweden.
Dates: June 6-16, 2009.