Alice Mahon (born September 28, 1937) is an English politician, trade unionist and Labour Party politician. She was Member of Parliament for Halifax from 1987 until 2005, when she stepped down because of her opposition to the Iraq War. She is a left-winger, being a member of the Socialist Campaign Group. She was a frequent rebel against the Labour government since 1997, and is a Eurosceptic. September 28 is the 271st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (272nd in leap years). ... 1937 (MCMXXXVII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... see also Politics of the United Kingdom This politics-related article is a stub. ... A union (labor union in American English; trade union, sometimes trades union, in British English; either labour union or trade union in Canadian English) is a legal entity consisting of employees or workers having a common interest, such as all the assembly workers for one employer, or all the workers... The Labour Party has been the principal left wing political party of the United Kingdom since the early 20th century (see British politics). ... A Member of Parliament, or MP, is a representative elected by the voters of an electoral district to a parliament; in the Westminster system, specifically to the lower house. ... Halifax is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ... 1987 (MCMLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Iraq War or War in Iraq, is both an informal and a formal American term for the military conflict in Iraq including the 2003 Invasion of Iraq by the United States, United Kingdom and Australia, overthrow of the governing dictatorship, occupation and subsequent military activities by US, UK and... In politics, left-wing, political left, leftism, or simply the left, are terms which refer (with no particular precision) to the segment of the political spectrum typically associated with any of several strains of socialism, social democracy, or liberalism (especially in the American sense of the word), or with opposition... The Socialist Campaign Group is a left wing grouping of Labour Party Members of Parliament in the UK. The group is generally Eurosceptic. ... Euroscepticism is scepticism about, or disagreement with, the purposes of the European Union, sometimes coupled with a desire to preserve national sovereignty. ...

She is an Honorary Associate of the National Secular Society. The National Secular Society is an organisation of the United Kingdom which promotes secularism. ...

Mahon stepped down from the House of Commons at the 2005 general election. Barring a change in the law, the next general election in the United Kingdom must be held some time before June 30, 2006. ...

In November, 2005, a film documentary by Sigfrido Ranucci of Italy's Rai News 24, The Hidden Massacre, claimed that the US military had used White Phosphorus (WP) as an incendiary weapon, including against civilians in Fallujah during operation Phantom Fury^[1]. The RAI documentary also quoted a 13 June 2005 U.K. Ministry of Defense letter^[2] to former Labour MP Alice Mahon stating that "The US destroyed its remaining stock of Vietnam era napalm in 2001 but, according to the reports for 1 Marine Expeditionary Force (1 MEF) serving in Iraq in 2003, they used a total of 30 MK 77 weapons in Iraq between 31 March and 2 April 2003, against military targets away from civilian areas. The MK 77 firebomb does not have the same composition as napalm, although it has similar destructive characteristics. The Pentagon has also told us that owing to the limited accuracy of the MK 77, it is not generally used in urban terrain or in areas where civilians are congregated" Look up November in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... RAI (Radiotelevisione Italiana) is the Italian public service broadcaster. ... White phosphorus is a common allotrope of the chemical element phosphorus which has found extensive military application as an incendiary agent , smoke-screening agent, and as an antipersonnel flame compound capable of causing serious burns. ... An incendiary device is a device or weapon designed to create a fire. ... A civilian is a person who is not a member of a military. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... U.S. soldiers from the 1st Cavalry Division prepare to enter and clear a building during fighting in Fallujah. ... June 13 is the 164th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (165th in leap years), with 201 days remaining. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Labour Party has been the principal left wing political party of the United Kingdom since the early 20th century (see British politics). ... A napalm airstrike during the Vietnam War Napalm, or jellied gasoline, is a flammable liquid fuel weapon invented in 1942. ... 2001: A Space Odyssey. ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Mark 77 bomb (MK-77) is a US 750-lb (340-kg) air-dropped incendiary bomb carrying 110 gallons (415 litres) of a fuel gel mix which is the direct successor to napalm. ...

Acted as a defence witness in the trial of Slobodan Milosevic in 2006 Slobodan Milošević. ...

Following the testimony of Slobodan Jarcevic, who was foreign minister of the self-declared Republika Srpska Krajina, RSK, in modern-day Croatia, from October 1992, until becoming foreign policy advisor to the RSK president Milan Martic in April 1994, Milosevic called Alice Mahon, who was a member of the British parliament throughout the Nineties and also sat on the NATO parliamentary committee from 1992 onwards.

Mahon told the court that she considered the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999 to have been illegal and “purely political”. She suggested that the bombing was the main reason that hundreds of thousands of Kosovo Albanians fled their homes in 1999, rather than persecution by the state security services. She also said that Albanians that she spoke with afterwards informed her that they had been told to leave by the rebel Kosovo Liberation Army, KLA.

Mahon even went so far as to say that she believed the air strikes had deliberately been aimed at civilian targets. “I feel passionately that NATO should be in the dock in this place as well,” she told the court.

The witness also called into question the prosecution’s account of an attack by government forces on the village of Racak in January 1999, said to have left some 45 Albanians dead.

She said that her experience of William Walker, the head of the OSCE Kosovo Verification Mission who was amongst the first to travel to Racak and speak out about the alleged massacre, was “appalling”. Mahon said that Walker had been involved with the Contra paramilitaries in Nicaragua in the Eighties and recalled that conversations with soldiers, charity workers and Kosovo residents had led her to believe that the OSCE was under the influence of the American CIA.

“I certainly don’t think we should have destroyed a country based on what Mr William Walker said,” she told the court, adding, “I think there was something highly suspicious about what happened at Racak.”

• ^ The Hidden Massacre
• ^ MOD letter. The RAI documentary claimed that incendiary weapons such as MK 77 had been used in Baghdad in 2003 in civilians-populated areas, which is forbidden by the 1980 Protocol III to the Convention on Conventional Weapons.