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LONDON, England—Kelan J. Turrington was only 18 years old when he was killed in action in Basra, Iraq on April 6. He was a Fusilier in the British Army’s Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, and for me he personifies the American, British and Iraqi fighters who fought and died proudly in a war based on false information. In an interview, his mother said, “We all really, really loved him. We were so proud of him.” At the funeral, one of Kelan’s friends, Darren Bone, said...
Kelan’s parents asked the mourners to donate money for Iraqi children rather than giving flowers, after the teen had written them to describe the suffering of children in Basra. The letter, which arrived after his death, said: “We had at least 10 kids following us today. They are sweet little kids, five to six-year-olds. They haven’t got a clue what’s going...
...Southern Iraq, local tribal leaders have sorted out property disputes and murder cases for centuries without the help of police and courts. So when Sheik Mohammed al-Ebadi got a call from a British officer to help defuse a riot in Majar al-Kabir, northwest of Basra, he drove there, fast. As he approached the village, he saw British paratroopers engaged in a fierce fire fight with locals armed with AK-47s and rocket-propelled grenades. The locals, enraged by reports of heavy-handed searches carried out by British troops, had attacked a patrol. When the fighting was done, four...
...mission is costing not only American treasure - currently an estimated $3 billion a month - but also American lives. U.S. forces come under attack every day in Iraq, and they have suffered combat casualties at a rate upward of one death every other day. Six British MPs were killed near Basra on Tuesday and eight were wounded in a second incident; a U.S. Marine was killed en route to help ambushed comrades Wednesday; two U.S. troops were reported missing overnight Thursday in Baghdad, and later in the day Centcom announced that a Special Operations soldier had been killed and eight wounded...
...awareness of Iraq's points of vulnerability, while Wednesday's firefights that killed six and wounded eight British troops mark an even more worrisome development. While attacks on U.S. forces had been mostly confined to the Sunni Baathist heartland, the Britons were attacked in the overwhelmingly Shiite region around Basra. It could be that such attacks were mounted by the same largely Sunni groups that are harassing U.S. forces in Baghdad and to the north - after all, Saddam's (mostly Sunni) Fedayeen were active as far south as Basra in the early days of the war. But if they were...