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The Guardian: Basra out of control, says chief of police
The chief of police in Basra admitted yesterday that he had effectively lost control of three-quarters of his officers and that sectarian militias had infiltrated the force and were using their posts to assassinate opponents.


Posted on May 31st, 2005 at 10:15am under Uncategorized

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  1. Postman on 31.05.2005 at 20:55 Permalink | Reply

    Quite why the enmities of centuries will be ended by three years of brutal US / UK occupation is a process that defies my understanding.

    I notice the US bombed an electricity sub-station yesterday – does this improve electricity distribution ?

  2. Justin on 31.05.2005 at 21:03 Permalink | Reply

    Any chance you could post the link to that bombing story, please? Where did you find the story?

  3. snooo on 31.05.2005 at 23:20 Permalink | Reply

    Theres a story here about the UK “occupation” in the South of Iraq. It seems that the British forces have achieved relative calm due to allowing the local militas, who tend to be of the intolerant type, to do what they like.

    So our experiment in freedom and democracy is allowing a mini-Iran-come-Sicily to flourish.

    Great.

  4. snooo on 31.05.2005 at 23:24 Permalink | Reply

    And I should have added…

    Whilst all along the media have largely portrayed Basra as an example of the superiority of the British approach, with the exception of the odd bit of torture. The underreporting of the South of Iraq is a scandal in itself…

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