The battle for Basra
The American Spectator
by Patrick Devenny & Robert McLean
11/01/05
At home, Britons were stunned by the graphic footage of their soldiers being assaulted in a city thought to be 'safe,' especially in comparison to the blood-soaked urban areas of the Sunni Triangle which dominate news coverage emanating out of Iraq. The violent imagery was only the latest and most troubling indication of the British military's failure in Basra and its environs, a disastrous turn of events which seemed unthinkable two years ago, when British troops were welcomed into Basra with relatively open arms. The root of this failure stems from the very strategy that was once lauded as the antidote for insurgent violence...
http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=8953
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
by Patrick Devenny & Robert McLean
11/01/05
At home, Britons were stunned by the graphic footage of their soldiers being assaulted in a city thought to be 'safe,' especially in comparison to the blood-soaked urban areas of the Sunni Triangle which dominate news coverage emanating out of Iraq. The violent imagery was only the latest and most troubling indication of the British military's failure in Basra and its environs, a disastrous turn of events which seemed unthinkable two years ago, when British troops were welcomed into Basra with relatively open arms. The root of this failure stems from the very strategy that was once lauded as the antidote for insurgent violence...
http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=8953
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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