Word: basra
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...Road of Death" is the name Iraqis give to the highway that runs from the border with Kuwait to the city of Basra. Scores of Iraqi tanks and soldiers were blasted in to oblivion here during the Gulf War, and now Iraqis are wondering whether American troops will soon pass be passing through. Although the road has been mended, the debris of the last war have yet to be fully cleared. Deep in the desert stand vehicle graveyards, where tanks, trucks and artillery pieces mangled by Allied bombing a decade ago lie heaped in the sand...
...Iraq's treasury. A few trenches have been dug through the desert, where sheep amble peacefully under the watchful eye of haughty Bedouin women. There are some soldiers, but hardly enough to defend the crucial oil fields that burn brightly on the horizon. Along the highway from Basra to Baghdad, the army posts have been freshly whitewashed but are poorly fortified: the walls are low and there are just three men with a machine gun on guard. "If America attacks, only Baghdad will stay," a former soldier admitted after making the usual promises of a do-or-die battle. "There...
...There is no access to international news channels and most web sites are blocked. (Ever since Iraq's top officials received an email from the Pentagon urging them to defect, the country's server has stopped delivering mail.) "Let the Americans come," a baker said in southern city of Basra. "We will show them that the Iraqi man is a real...
...billion contract guaranteeing them access to the colossal West Qurna oil field—which may hold up to 15 billion barrels—once sanctions are lifted. Last week, the Iraqi newspaper Al-Zawra indicated that another Russian firm had solidified an arrangement to drill wells south of Basra...
Last week a U.S. official called it "underwhelming," and several British officials close to Tony Blair agreed that it contained no smoking gun, no proof "that Saddam has an atom bomb in Basra." But today Blair's government released its long-promised dossier on Saddam's program to build weapons of mass destruction, hours before parliament assembled for an emergency debate on Iraq. Among its key findings...