Legal action over 'bomb' flights

About 150 people took part in a demonstration on Sunday

A legal bid has been launched in Glasgow to halt the use of all UK airports and military bases for so-called US bomb flights to Israel.

Human rights lawyer Aamer Anwar, of Beltrami Anwar Solicitors, said he was acting on behalf of Lebanese clients.

On Tuesday the BBC learned that in future such aircraft would be restricted to British military airfields rather than commercial sites.

However, Mr Anwar said he had not seen an official statement to that effect.

He also claimed that if arms flights were wrong for UK airports, they were also wrong for UK military airbases.

'War crimes'

He said allowing the use of Scottish facilities breached the European Convention on Human Rights, the Geneva Convention and international law.

Speaking to BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme, Mr Anwar said: "One of several options being considered is taking legal action to stop American planes, or Israeli planes for that matter, landing at Prestwick or using British airspace or using military airbases.

Aamer Anwar said he was considering legal action

"It is important to remember that, under the Geneva Convention, aiding and abetting anybody to carry out war crimes means that you are also complicit in war crimes, which is an allegation that has been made against the government and its agents."

Mr Anwar added that he may also ask the lord advocate and the police to investigate the issue of flights.

The lawyer was outlining his plans at a conference in Glasgow.

It was taking place at the Royal Faculty of Procurators in the city centre, where members of the Stop the War Coalition and the Muslim Association of Britain were also speaking.