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News of the World
July 20, 2008
The exit strategy emerged yesterday as the PM visited
Baghdad and
Basra, where he REFUSED to go on record with "an artificial timetable" for calling home ...
Reuters
July 20, 2008
... he is the best for
Iraq and for the world ... if McCain wins I will be devastated," said Mustafa Salah, an office
worker in the
southern city of Basra. ...
Kuwait Times
July 20, 2008
Independent
July 20, 2008
Raymond Whitaker and Jane Merrick in
Basra report on a dramatic policy shift The outlines of a new strategy in
Iraq and
Afghanistan became clear yesterday ...
Newsweek
July 19, 2008
The
Iraqi Army has regained control from
militias in
Basra. Now it faces a new foe: the government. By Babak Dehghanpisheh | NEWSWEEK Please fill in the ...
BBC News
July 19, 2008
He chose the height of summer - with temperatures touching 50C - to fly into
Baghdad and then move on to visit British troops stationed in
Basra. ...
Mail on Sunday
July 19, 2008
But travel a little further south and you will come to the modern city of Basra. If the Garden of Eden was paradise on earth, Basra is hell on earth. ...
Times of India
July 19, 2008
Hodge, nicknamed "Combat Barbie" by her comrades, served in Basra for seven months in 2005. She was entered into the competition by a friend. ...
Voice of America
July 19, 2008
"Beginning with the
Basra operations a couple of months ago, you've seen the
Iraqi government take a much more pro-active role in going after JAM [Jesh ...
Vancouver Sun
July 19, 2008
Balkar Singh Basra is scheduled to be sentenced Aug. 21. There is a publication ban on information that would identify the victim. ...
Vancouver Sun
July 19, 2008
Balkar Singh Basra is scheduled to be sentenced on August 21. There is a publication ban on information that would identify the victim. ...
guardian.co.uk
July 19, 2008
Iraqi leaders and some American commanders criticised
Britain for reducing the number of troops in
Basra, Iraq's second largest city. ...
Xinhua
July 18, 2008
guardian.co.uk
July 18, 2008
guardian.co.uk
July 18, 2008
First Post
July 15, 2008
Stationed at
Basra airport, outside the city, the remaining troops have been "mentoring and training" the
Iraqi troops who are supposed to replace them. ...
Reuters UK
July 14, 2008
WASHINGTON, July 14 (Reuters) -
Iraq's
southern city of Basra likely will face new threats of violence from Shi'ite militants who battled Iraqi security ...
Independent
July 13, 2008
Last week the Ministry of Defence agreed to pay almost £3m to the families of nine
Iraqis who were tortured in British custody in
Basra in 2003. ...
guardian.co.uk
July 13, 2008
One allegation is that a boy of 14 was forced to carry out oral sex on another male detainee at Camp Breadbasket, a British-run camp near Basra. ...
Independent
July 12, 2008
Mazin Younis, of the Iraqi League, who has travelled in Basra collecting witness statements of allegations of abuse, says he now has "more than 80" cases ...
Times Online
July 11, 2008
Operation Salerno began at 6am with a raid on a nondescript hotel in Basra. Baha Musa, 26, was on the reception desk. The date was September 14, 2003, ...
CNN International
July 10, 2008
Baha Musa died in
Basra in 2003 and the others were abused, the British
army admitted. During mediation efforts to agree the compensation figure, ...
Los Angeles Times
July 8, 2008
Abadi said the Iraqi military's recent successes against militants in the cities of
Basra, Amarah and
Mosul and in
Baghdad's
Sadr City district had inspired ...
New Statesman
July 8, 2008
... in the rich harvest of the Church's ministry; yet here in Basrah, it is, perhaps, in some senses simply more undiluted, more vital and more immediate. ...
GulfNews
July 8, 2008
Khalaf, who is said to be considered for a top post at the Ministry of Defence, said the recent campaign against the
Shiite militias in
Basra negatively ...
Reuters
July 8, 2008
By Ian Simpson
Basra, Iraq, July 8 (Reuters) - The Shi'ite
Mehdi Army militia is finished as a fighting force in
Iraq's oil rich
Basra province and upcoming ...
Reuters UK
July 7, 2008
... who will go to damaged pipelines, which carry oil to refineries for domestic use, to neighbouring
Turkey and also to the port city of
Basra for export. ...
Blackpool Gazette
July 7, 2008
Aaron, 35, spoke to the pensioners about what life was like in
Basra. He said: "I was protecting the base from
rockets. We were in tented accommodation and ...
Hindustan Times
July 7, 2008
After Manorama-Six Feet Under, director Navdeep Singh is working on Basra, an action thriller, reports Hiren Kotwani. Miracles are possible. ...
Chicago Tribune
July 7, 2008
Independent
July 6, 2008
But limited PSC guarding operations, including at
Basra Palace in southern
Iraq before it was handed back to local forces, were considered a success. ...
