Word: basra
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...They left me militia, they left me gangsters, and they left me all the troubles in the world. JALIL KHALAF, Iraqi police commander in Basra, on British forces withdrawing from the city and surrounding province...
...that violence has ended, but we are able to move to provincial Iraqi control, and that's thanks to everything you have achieved.' GORDON BROWN, British Prime Minister, informing U.K. soldiers in Basra on Dec. 9 that the last Iraqi area under British control would be handed over to local troops within two weeks...
GORDON BROWN, British Prime Minister, informing U.K. soldiers in Basra on Dec. 9 that the last Iraqi area under British control would be handed over to local troops within two weeks...
Leckrone, the American commander, said that with the British out of Basra, and U.S. and Coalition forces withdrawing from Karbala last week, Shi'ite militias in southern Iraq may now focus on Diwaniyah. "There's been, no doubt, a lot of progress lately," he said. "But it's still an uphill battle here, a tough fight. You never know where or when they [the militia] are going...
Emboldened by a propaganda victory when the British left Basra, Shi'ite militants have since turned their sights on the Poles and the patchwork of other international forces stationed in and around Diwaniyah. Camp Echo, the headquarters of Multinational Division Central-South, is a virtual Tower of Babel where more than 200 Americans and most of the 900-strong Polish force work and live alongside 100 Mongolians, 62 Romanians, 46 Armenians, 36 Bosnians, 27 Ukrainians, a Lithuanian, a Latvian and a bunch of Ugandan guards. Together they and their numbers posted in urban outposts endure frequent mortar and rocket attacks...