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	Diego Garcia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Diego Garcia is the largest atoll by land area of the Chagos Archipelago.
		Diego Garcia became a possession of the United Kingdom after the Napoleonic wars, and from 1814 to 1965, it was a dependency of Mauritius.
		Until 1971, Diego Garcia had a native population, known as the Ilois (or Chagossians), which was composed of the descendants of East Indian workers and African slaves who had been brought to the island in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to work on the coconut and copra plantations.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Diego_Garcia (2250 words)

	Diego Garcia "Camp Justice" (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.virginia.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Diego Garcia is a British territory mostly populated by the US military, the British colony that's been colonised by the Americans.
		Diego Garcia is part of the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT) formed in 1965 from territory belonging formerly to Mauritius and the Seychelles.
		Diego Garcia, the southernmost island in the Chagos Archipelago and a part of the British Indian Ocean Territory, is centrally located in the Indian Ocean.
	www.globalsecurity.org.cob-web.org:8888 /military/facility/diego-garcia.htm (3163 words)

	Diego Garcia
		Diego Garcia and the other islands within BIOT are largely unspoiled, and it is important they remain so.
		Diego Garcia is located in the middle of the Indian Ocean, 3000 miles from the nearest hospital that can deliver definitive care for severe injuries or illnesses.
		Diego Garcia is a living coral atoll; the coral reefs and island are made up of trillions of living organisms.
	www.msc.navy.mil /mpstwo/garcia.htm (1318 words)

	Diego Garcia
		Diego Garcia was initially discovered by Portuguese explorers in the early 1500s marking the first human presence on the island.
		Held by France until after the Napoleonic Wars, Diego Garcia was ceded to the British in the early 1800s after the fall of Napoleon as France was trying to minimize its presence in the region.
		Diego Garcia is the southernmost island in the Chagos chain, approximately 1,000 miles south of the southern Indian coast.
	www.american.edu /TED/ice/diego-garcia.htm (5296 words)

	Where in the World Is Diego Garcia?
		Diego Garcia proved to be critically important as a refueling base during the 1991 Persian Gulf War, and during Operation Desert Fox, it served as a base for B-52 bombers, which on Dec. 17, 1998, launched nearly 100 long-range cruise missiles aimed at Iraq.
		Although Diego Garcia once had a small native population, the inhabitants, known as the Ilois, or the Chagossians, were forced to relocate (1967—1973) so that the island could be turned into the U.S. military base.
		The Chagossians have accepted that they cannot return to Diego Garcia because of the U.S. airbase, but this new verdict paves the way for the islanders to move elsewhere in the Chagos archipelago, to the Salomon islands and Peros Banhos, which are more than 100 miles from Diego Garcia.
	www.infoplease.com /spot/dg.html (925 words)

	History of Diego Garcia
		He had been sent to the island of Diego Garcia to fbr cop- per sheets on a coal bunk that had been fouled by a steamer, and was an- noyed during his operations by the same shark for nearly a week.
		From Diego Garcia she proceeded to Colombo to join the British Eastern Fleet, with which she was to serve for some two years on Indian Ocean and Persian Gulf convoy escort duty.
		Diego Garcia is part of the Chagos Archipelago, situated on the southernmost part of the Chagos-Laccadive Ridge.
	www.zianet.com /tedmorris/dg/realhistory.html (12681 words)

	Granta: 'Diego Garcia' by Simon Winchester
		By the summer of last year the US government was calling Diego Garcia an 'all but indispensable platform', absolutely central to American strategy for policing a large part of the world and in particular the Middle East.
		On the water tower by this entrance are painted the words: diego garcia: the footprint of freedom.
		Many Stars and Stripes flutter on Diego Garcia, but the flag that flies from the tallest of the island flagstaffs is the Union Jack.
	www.granta.com /extracts/1225 (5403 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Guardian daily comment \| Paradise cleansed
		Newsreaders refer to it in passing: "American B-52 and Stealth bombers last night took off from the uninhabited British island of Diego Garcia to bomb Iraq (or Afghanistan)." It is the word "uninhabited" that turns the key on the horror of what was done there.
		Diego Garcia was first settled in the late 18th century.
		All this began to end when an American rear-admiral stepped ashore in 1961 and Diego Garcia was marked as the site of what is today one of the biggest American bases in the world.
	www.guardian.co.uk /comment/story/0,,1317945,00.html (1276 words)

	Armed Forces Diego Garcia
		In the late 1970s, Invercargill DXer Neville Henry was rewarded with reception of AFDG Diego Garcia 1485kHz, 250 watts, on a morning he will never forget here is a background on the station.
		Diego Garcia is located in the Indian Ocean some 3300 miles from Perth.
		The station was under the auspices of Logistic Support Component, a command separate from the SEABEES and, eventually under the island command and the command of the Communications Station.
	radiodx.com /spdxr/Diego_Garcia.htm (934 words)

	NPR's Weekend Edition Saturday: Diego Garcia
		Diego Garcia's strategic location is what made it attractive as a military base when it was established as such in the 1970s.
		In 1975, with Soviet ships increasing their numbers in the Indian Ocean, the United States leased Diego Garcia from Britain for 50 years and built it up into a powerful military center.
		The "extreme isolation" of Diego Garcia, combined with the rigorous work schedule, the ready availability of booze, and the number of places to imbibe makes conspicuous hooch consumption almost inevitable, Morris says.
	www.npr.org /programs/wesat/features/2001/diego/011013.diego.html (594 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Africa \| Diego Garcia islanders battle to return
		Exiled islanders from the Indian Ocean island of Diego Garcia are launching a legal action in a London court, seeking to return to their "paradise" home and get compensation from Britain for being deported.
		But the government does not want the islanders back on Diego Garcia which could be used as a base for a US attack on Iraq.
		But the islanders are adamant that they should be allowed to return to Diego Garcia and their lawyers are focusing on that claim and on compensation for what they call 30 years of poverty and exile.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/africa/2380013.stm (522 words)

	NBC: U.S. base spared by tsunami - Tsunami, a Year Later - MSNBC.com
		The U.S. Navy base on Diego Garcia prior to the tsunami on Dec. 26.
		Diego Garcia, a 10-square-mile British island leased to the U.S. Navy, sits in the middle of the Indian Ocean, just south of the hard-hit Maldives.
		Diego Garcia is part of the Chagos Archipelago, which extends north from the Maldives.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/6786984 (686 words)

	Depopulation of Diego Garcia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Diego Garcia depopulation controversy pertains to the evacuation of the indigenous inhabitants of the island of Diego Garcia during the 1960s and 70s.
		Until 1971, the Ilois were the inhabitants of the Chagos Islands, the archipelago containing Diego Garcia.
		Diego Garcia had no electricity, no telephone connection, no regular postal service and little in the way of Government (which usually took the form of a yearly visit by the British Governor of the Islands).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Diego_Garcia_depopulation_conspiracy (2746 words)

	VRC-50 Det Diego Garcia
		Care is taken during construction operations to preserve the ecology of Diego Garcia.
		Commencing with the Yemen crisis in the spring of 1979, the Iranian crisis of 1979-81, and continuing with Desert Shield/Desert Storm in 1990-91, Diego Garcia has played a primary role in the support of Naval units operating in the Indian Ocean and Persian Gulf areas.
		The detachment was present for many of the changes that occured on Diego Garcia.
	www.felhofer.com /foodog/sea.htm (1126 words)

	The taming of Diego Garcia - Sepia Mutiny
		The taming of Diego Garcia - Sepia Mutiny
		Government lawyers had argued that in a territory like Diego Garcia, the Queen (and her ministers) have unlimited power and can use Royal Perogative powers in these territories, despite the fact that she lost the right to use such powers in Britain in the 17th century.
		Diego Garcia is one creepy spot on the map.
	www.sepiamutiny.com /sepia/archives/003403.html (1448 words)

	SURFER photo gallery Indian Indies Trader Ocean surfing
		Diego Garcia, British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT) is located at 7 Degrees South Latitude, off the tip of India.
		As you might suspect, the waters surrounding Diego Garcia are home to a vast variety of sea life (over 700 species have been recorded so far).
		Entry into Diego Garcia is restricted, requiring area clearance by CO Navy Support Facility, Diego Garcia for all military and civilian personnel.
	surfermag.com /photos/travel/diegogarcia06-indies (695 words)

	US-UK-Diego Garcia (1770-2004) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The United States prohibits former inhabitants of Diego Garcia from visiting the graves of their ancestors, despite a letter from the British government urging the US to grant them permission.
		The officials argue that expanding the base at Diego Garcia is needed to safeguard US oil interests in the Persian Gulf and to counter the Soviet Union’s presence in the region, which the military claims is increasing rapidly.
		US officials had previously claimed that the island of Diego Garcia was “uninhabited,” (see June 5, 1975) (see March 6, 1975) conveniently ignoring the fact that the island had been depopulated by Britain and the US (see July 27, 1971-May 26, 1973).
	www.cooperativeresearch.org /timeline.jsp?timeline=diego_garcia (4674 words)

	Sealift -- MSC sheds new light on Diego Garcia harbor
		A sector range light was ideal for Diego Garcia since there is little room for navigational aids at the approach to the lagoon.
		Next, since Diego Garcia is British soil, MSC had to get permission to build the light.
		Whenever a ship wants to enter or leave the Diego Garcia lagoon, the ship's master calls harbor operations, and the light is activated.
	www.msc.navy.mil /sealift/2003/March/diegogarcia.htm (1339 words)

	Diego Garcia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Before Independence (1968), the Diego Garcia Archipelago was part and parcel of Mauritius, unfortunately, the British Government of that time detached these groups of islands from Mauritian jurisdiction in 1965 in spite of such an action being clearly against the United Nations' Charter.
		The reason being that since the sixties, the US and the UK have erected a major military base on the main island and they consider their military presence on Diego Garcia to be of "critical importance" for the defence of the Western World.
		Local press articles on Diego Garcia and the fight of the natives of that Archipelago to return to their homeland (Mainly in French)
	www.intnet.mu /iels/Diego_Garcia_mau.htm (436 words)

	THE ISLAND OF DIEGO GARCIA, B 52'S AND YOU AND ME
		And curiously, just one week before the 11th September came and changed everything, the Bush administration announced that Diego Garcia was being expanded to take in all the hardware and troops from US bases in Europe that, they added, would from then on be gradually phased out.
		We want Diego Garcia to be declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site immediately on the closure of the base.
		The 1995 UN "Pelindaba Treaty for a Nuclear-Weapons Free Africa" was signed by all the countries concerned, but on the insistence of the representatives of your two countries, there were the infamous "dotted lines" scribbled in around Diego Garcia.
	www.focusweb.org /publications/2001/diegogarcia.html (1526 words)

	United Kingdom: Letter to Prime Minister Tony Blair: British Territory Must Not Be Used for Torture (Human Rights Watch ...
		We urge your government to reaffirm your commitment to these human rights obligations immediately, unequivocally and publicly. We also ask you to communicate to the U.S. government your insistence that anyone held by the United States on Diego Garcia be treated at all times in a manner consistent with international prohibitions of torture.
		According to press reports in the United States, U.S. forces are holding and interrogating suspected al-Qaeda detainees at a U.S. operated facility on the island of Diego Garcia.
		We also ask you to communicate to the U.S. government your insistence that anyone held by the United States on Diego Garcia be treated at all times in a manner consistent with international prohibitions of torture.
	www.hrw.org /press/2002/12/uk1230ltr.htm (1206 words)

	TIME.com: What in the World Is Diego Garcia? -- Page 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		In the late '70s it was home to Jimmy Carter's Delta Force; in the early '80s, Ronald Reagan built the base into a key outpost while the Iran-Iraq war raged and the U.S. and the Soviet Union vied for supremacy in Africa, the Middle East and the Indian Ocean.
		At a time when the alliances of local nations were for sale and often swung wildly, Diego Garcia was blissfully free of political turmoil.
		For U.S. servicemen, just getting to Diego from the States is a lesson in the value of maintaining a political oasis in the region.
	www.time.com /time/nation/article/0,8599,10482,00.html (893 words)

	Diego Garcia
		GARCIA, Diego, Portuguese navigator, born in Lisbon in 1471; died in Madrid in 1529 (according to Sala, about 1535).
		He entered the Spanish service in his youth, and undertook in 1511 an expedition to South America, the accounts of which have been lost.
		Gareia was at Palos de Moguer when Charles V. resolved to send an expedition to explore the southern seas under Sebastian Cabot, and at the same time the mercantile company, formed for the spice-trade at Coruna, fitted out an expedition, of which the command was given to Garcia.
	www.famousamericans.net /diegogarcia (463 words)

	Diego Garcia
		The history of Diego Garcia island is replete with all the usual dark secrets and dirty tricks of colonialism, including a long history of enslavement and forced labor of the native Ilois and their eventual forced removal by the British.
		The archipelago was ethnically cleansed, so to speak, to make way for a US military base on the southernmost island of Diego Garcia, which is now home to a fleet of nuclear-capable B-52 Bombers..
		Below, is an open letter about Diego Garcia--the island dismembered from Mauritius by the British state in the 1960's and leased by the British State to the US to transform it into the military (and nuclear) base in the Indian Ocean that is now being used to bomb Afghanistan.
	www.purewatergazette.net /diegogarcia.htm (1871 words)

	Diego Garcia (U)
		A fourth site, Diego Garcia (Indian Ocean), was completed in 1987, and a fifth site was planned but later cancelled for Portugal.
		The Diego Garcia site has three Cassegrain telescopes (no Schmidts are present).
		The main telescope (a Cassegrains) has a 102 cm aperture and a two-degree field of view and is used primarily to search the deep sky for faint (+16 magnitude), slow-moving objects.
	www.fas.org /spp/military/program/nssrm/initiatives/diego.htm (621 words)

	Diego Garcia -- did US military/CIA know tsunami was in progress? : Melbourne Indymedia
		The US has a very large military base on the island of Diego Garcia in the middle of the Indian Ocean, and they have been aware of tsunami hazard to the island due to the proximity of the southwestern Pacific archipelago.
		"One of the few places in the Indian Ocean that got the message of the quake was Diego Garcia, a speck of an island with a United States Navy base, because the Pacific warning center's contact list includes the Navy.
		Opinions are those of the contributors and are not necessarily endorsed by the Melbourne Independent Media Center.
	melbourne.indymedia.org /news/2004/12/85534.php (682 words)

	Diego Garcia: Paradise Cleansed - by John Pilger
		Diego Garcia: Paradise Cleansed - by John Pilger
		To understand the catastrophe of Iraq, and all the other Iraqs along imperial history's trail of blood and tears, one need look no further than Diego Garcia.
		Within hours of the judgment, the Foreign Office announced that it would not be possible for them to return to Diego Garcia because of a "treaty" with Washington – in truth, a deal concealed from parliament and the U.S. Congress.
	www.antiwar.com /orig/pilger.php?articleid=3702 (1245 words)

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