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| | Corruption pervades government in Basra - The Boston Globe |
| | According to Basra politicians, many of the homicides are tit-for-tat killings of Islamist party officials; some hit squads target Ba'athists, and another fraction of the killings seem to be part of continuing tribal feuds that predate the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime. | | | Most of the assassinations remain unsolved, and a majority of the police force (one-half to three-quarters, the police chief recently estimated to reporters) are actually Islamist militia fighters loyal to their sponsoring political party, rather than to the government. | | | BASRA, Iraq -- The insurgency roiling much of Iraq has not taken hold in this southern metropolis, where Shi'ite Arabs hold sway and religious law is firmly ensconced. |
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http://www.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/articles/2005/08/08/corruption_pervades_government_in_basra?mode=PF
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| | Iraq: Killings of civilians in Basra and al-'Amara - Amnesty International |
| | The ACO then investigates the allegations with the appropriate unit and upon completion of that investigation the claimant is notified of the decision on their claim. | | | Amnesty International was unable to identify a single case in Basra city where a perpetrator of a political killing had been brought to trial. | | | About 300 of the 1,150 Christian families living in Basra before the occupation used to earn their livelihoods from the alcohol trade, according to the Chaldean Archbishop of Basra and Southern Iraq, Monsignor Gibril Kassab. |
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| | BBC NEWS Middle East Warplanes attack Basra column |
| | A reporter in Basra for Qatar-based television station al-Jazeera said "there are no signs of the reported uprising". | | | BBC correspondent Clive Myrie is close to the area and says the movement of Iraqi armour may be a counter-attack to recapture ground lost over the last two or three days - or possibly a tactical retreat from Basra because of the possibility of an uprising in the city. | | | But while the extent of the reported rebellion remained uncertain, Mr Blair said it was clear that Iraqis would "opt for freedom rather than repression" once they knew Saddam Hussein's rule was coming to an end. |
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| | BBC NEWS Middle East Uprising reported in Basra |
| | From the outskirts of Basra, British troops have bombarded Iraqi mortar positions in the city in an effort to support the uprising, according to journalist Richard Gaisford, who is with British forces just outside. | | | He said that the British troops were using a system of radar tracking to pinpoint and then attack the mortar positions. | | | The main Shia Iraqi opposition group, the Iran-based Supreme Assembly for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, which claims connections in the city said a revolt was taking place. |
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| | Again and again, I've heard similar sentiments from Basra's intellectual class: the "turbans" who are imposing their Islamic beliefs on the city--often at the barrel of an AK--are not Basrawi, they are an aberration, a glitch in the city's history, a "transitional" phase from 35 years of Saddam's tyranny to a truly democratic future. | | | As the night darkens, and the cooling earth causes a soft breeze to stir, Samir describes Basra during the "Intifada" of 1991, when Shia Muslims, encouraged by the White House, rose up against Saddam, only to encounter the full might of his security forces. | | | As I've written, the fact that many, if not most, of Basra's constabulary harbors primary loyalties to the city's religious parties is--as you might imagine--a serious problem. |
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http://spencepublishing.typepad.com/in_the_red_zone
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| | Basra, Iraq — In the middle of an interview with Sheik Abdul al-Baghdali, an American-hating supporter of Moqtada al-Sadr, the lights in his office suddenly went out. | | | BASRA, Iraq (Reuters) - British troops seized 12 men, including members of the Iraqi police, during overnight raids in Basra on suspicion of involvement in deadly attacks on foreign troops, the military said on Friday. | | | The once-libertine oil port of Basra, 560 kilometers, or 350 miles, south of the capital and far from the insurgency raging in much of Iraq, is steadily being transformed into a mini-theocracy under Shiite rule. |
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| | This project was made possible by Christian Aid and through the coordination of the local Iraqi Water Directorate for the Basra area. | | | IRAC and Christian Aid aim to build on the work conducted in Al-Ambarry, Al-Meshan and Abu Al-Joozy in order to bring further improvements to the lives of Iraqis in the poor rual south of Iraq. | | | In October 2004, IRAC - with the support of Christian Aid, installed a 2.5km pipeline connecting the locality and brought an end to this reliance on unclean and potentially dangerous water supplies. |
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| | They attacked in the vicinity where the manifold goes into the sea." According to Iraqi officials exports were still flowing from Basra albeit at a reduced rate of 1.2 million barrels per day (bpd) compared with 1.6 million bpd prior to the attack as oil from the damaged pipeline is flowing through the parallel pipeline. | | | A British military spokesman disagreed with the report, saying "It was not the result of an explosion. | | | March 26 - pipeline in the southern Basra oil facilities on fire, said an official from Iraq's State Oil Marketing Organization. |
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| | Encyclopedia topic: Basra |
| | In March through May of 2003, the outskirts of Basra were the scene of heavy fighting in the 2003 invasion of Iraq (additional info and facts about 2003 invasion of Iraq). | | | In 1911, the Encyclopaedia Britannica reported some Jews and a few Christians living in Basra, but no Turks other than Ottoman officials. | | | At the end of the second world war the population was some 93,000 people. |
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| | BASRA, IRAQ -- Residents of an apartment building in central Basra, Iraq, are living Wednesday, April 9, 2003, with the rubble they say was left behind when their apartment building was hit during coa | | | BASRA, IRAQ -- Residents of an apartment building in central Basra, Iraq, say Wednesday, April 9, 2003, that this apartment was hit during coalition bombing earlier this week, killing six adults and o | | | Basra, Iraq, Quiet under British Occupation, But Discontent Is Building. |
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| | Outside Basra, Iraq - Seeking to break the government's grip in southern Iraq, British troops raided villages surrounding Basra early Saturday and apprehended 14 people considered to be key Baath Party and militia leaders who had been intimidating residents and forcing them to remain loyal to President Saddam Hussein. | | | This corner of southeastern Iraq, from the Kuwaiti border up to Iraq's second-largest city, Basra, has seen some return to normal life since the war began March 20, local time, and first U.S. Marines and British troops occupied the area. | | | He would not sit in the front because it was too visible to Iraqis gathered nearby. |
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| | IBN_ALRAFIDAIN: Basra |
| | If indeed Iran has the most influence in Basra, then the fight is against Iran, not Iraq or Iraqis. | | | Although the police force is nominally British-trained, the British have had to stand aside as this infiltration has taken place. | | | Having read some of the comments, I gather I'm not the only one who has read of the Iranian connection in Basra. |
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| | Basra has been called the Venice of the East, but this is misleading and unfair. | | | And the men you see puffing clouds of smoke are not Janissaries but the merchants, taxi-drivers, tradesmen and workers of Basra. | | | Basrah, also known as Basra, city in southeastern Iraq, capital of Al Basrah Governorate on the Shatt al Arab. |
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| | First World War.com - Battles - The Capture of Basra, 1914 |
| | By November 1914 the Indian government already had some 5,000 Indian Expeditionary Force D troops in the Persian Gulf under the command of General Sir Arthur Barrett, having set off from Bombay on 16 October. | | | The following morning Barrett received news from a local Arab Sheikh that the Turks had withdrawn leaving Basra empty. | | | Basra - a city on the River Euphrates, inland from where the river flowed into the head of the Persian Gulf - contained a population of approximately 60,000 people, comprised of a mixture of Muslims and Christians. |
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| | CNS - The Battle for Basra |
| | Iran's primary objective during the Iran-Iraq War was to seize Basra and cut off Saddam's access to the Gulf. | | | Taking Basra has numerous ramifications for US Operation Iraqi Freedom. | | | While the Iranians outnumbered the Iraqis, Iraq was still able to repulse the the invading forces. |
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| | The Age of Melbourne reports Mohammed al-Waili, the governor of Basra Province, condemned the British for raiding the prison, an act he called "barbaric, savage and irresponsible." The Guardian reports that the incident "shatters the assumption" that security in Basra is getting better. | | | But the British actions, which they say were required by the circumstances, have infuriated local Iraqi officials. | | | This is bound to be seen as a humiliation by many Iraqis — something the insurgents will use to their advantage.” |
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| | The Daily Star Web Edition Vol. 4 Num 319 |
| | Canada said one of its citizens had been kidnapped in Iraq -- the latest in a spate of hostage-taking this month that has snared foreign civilians from more than a dozen countries. | | | Suicide bombers killed at least 68 people, some of them children, in co-ordinated strikes on four police stations that inflicted bloody chaos on Iraq's southern city of Basra yesterday, officials said. | | | The explosions sowed panic across Basra, which had been relatively peaceful during this month's surge of violence in other parts of central and southern Iraq. |
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| | washingtonpost.com: People in Basra Contest Official View of Siege |
| | These conclusions about life under siege emerge from a week of interviews in Basra and they differ in many ways from accounts offered by military and other sources before the city's fall. | | | Now some officers say they are unsure what happened. | | | On April 5, U.S. and British commanders thought they scored a major victory in Basra when they destroyed a compound that they believed was the hiding place of Iraq's local commander, Ali Hassan Majeed, a cousin of Saddam Hussein known as "Chemical Ali" for his use of chemical weapons against the Kurds in the 1980s. |
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| | CNN.com - Basra bombs kill at least 68 Iraqis - Apr 21, 2004 |
| | Bremer said remnants of the Saddam Hussein regime are largely responsible for recent attacks in Fallujah, Ramadi and now Basra. | | | The five suicide car bombings near police facilities in and around the city of Basra killed at least 68 Iraqis -- including 18 schoolchildren, police said. | | | Basra, which is a relatively quiet region of Iraq, is under the control of British coalition forces. |
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| | Guardian Unlimited Special reports British forces support Basra 'uprising' |
| | British forces then weighed in with artillery support for the rebelling Shia population and a 2,000-lb bomb was dropped on the Ba'ath party headquarters, according to reports. | | | Some British versions have been much more cautious, describing the uprising as "nascent", while al-Jazeera's reporter inside the city said there was no sign of any uprising at all. | | | The first success of the day - which came just at the right moment for prime-time television news in the UK - was a claim by the British military that a "popular uprising" against Saddam Hussein's regime had broken out in Basra. |
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| | Even as brave and dedicated people here begin to reconstruct their lives in the face of daunting problems — terrorism, a lack of investment funds, corruption, and a political process dominated by incompetent religious parties — others seem just as determined to, well, totally screw things up. | | | And with Basra, so goes the rest of Iraq. | | | Still, this is Iraq &; or more specifically, the city of Basra, where image and reality often clash, especially when it comes to the police. |
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| | Telegraph News British trapped in Basra vacuum |
| | Having handed back power to the Iraqis in June, the British also say they do not have the political authority to intervene. | | | "I can understand what the Iraqis are saying but confronting violence with violence is not going to work," said Major Ian Clooney, a British military spokesman in Basra. | | | But the military insists that its strategy of waiting out the barrage is preferable to attacking Sadr's Mahdi army militia, which, they argue, would lead to an inevitable escalation of violence and the deaths of civilians. |
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| | Local authorities in Iraq's southern city of Basra have said they will refuse to engage with British troops following a British raid on a police station this week. | | | Aljazeera.Net - Basra officials to boycott UK troops | | | Monday's showdown between Iraqi police and British soldiers also sparked protests when several hundred demonstrators attacked British forces besieging the police station in Basra. |
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| | Guardian Unlimited Politics Special Reports British soldiers injured in Basra |
| | Fourteen British soldiers were injured, three of them seriously, in Basra yesterday when hundreds of Iraqis threw stones and petrol bombs during protests about job shortages. | | | Blair: troops could begin Iraq pullout within six months | | | Tim Smith, the British military spokesman in Basra, said such incidents were rare. |
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| | Telegraph News Violence in Iraq will get even worse, says Blair |
| | British officers in Basra are also worried about the stand-off at the twin holy cities of Najaf and Kufa, where the fiery Islamic cleric, Moqtada al-Sadr, has taken refuge from 2,500 American troops determined either to capture or kill him. | | | Violence in Iraq will get even worse, says Blair | | | Brig Carter, of the 20 Armoured Brigade, who has been in Iraq for four months, said British forces would stay in Basra with the consent of local Shia leaders, or not at all. |
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| | Dispatches from Basra IV Samizdata.net |
| | It's good news, of course, that things aren't as grim in Basra as has recently been reported. | | | The following has been written partially as a response to =1061179200&en=9643b531184b0592&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE" target="new">this article in New York Times about continuous riots over critical fuel shortages in Basra. | | | Whole Basra economy is based upon it and so it is very difficult to change in such a short time. |
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| | Patrick Cockburn: Iraq Government Has No Authority |
| | Ordinary Iraqis were drawing their own conclusion about what had happened in Basra. | | | he Iraqi official was visibly flustered and embarrassed when questioned in Baghdad about the storming of the police station in Basra by British troops. | | | Abdul Hamid, a goldsmith, said over the phone from the city: "People here have seen that our government has no authority in |
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| | US investigators said the message was disturbing if the policemen turned out to be the killers. | | | The women’s families said they believed the killers belonged to radical groups. | | | Late on Wednesday, two Iraqi women employed by a unit of US oilfield services company Halliburton were shot dead in the southern port of Basra as they returned home from work. |
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| | Not surprisingly, Noori, who said he was beaten and detained in an Iraqi jail for six months in 1992, rejoiced when British troops seized the southern city on April 7. | | | Murtadah Noori remembers being in the crowd that stormed the offices of Iraq's feared military intelligence in Basra during a failed uprising against Saddam Hussein after the 1991 Gulf War. | | | During the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq conflict Iranian troops reached Basra's outskirts and the ancient city was heavily bombed, forcing hundreds of people to flee. |
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| | Kuna siteStory pageBritish soldier wounded in Basra blast ...8/21/2005 |
| | A British spokesman in Basra however told reporters that no casualties were reported after the explosion. | | | Eyewitnesses told KUNA the explosion took place when a patrol of British troops was passing in the direction of the hotel. | | | BASRA, Aug 21 (KUNA) -- A British soldier was wounded Sunday when a roadside bomb went off on the way to the Shatt Al-Arab Hotel north of Basra. |
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| | BBC NEWS World Middle East Basra: Why they are not cheering |
| | The London-based organisation Indict, which seeks to put Iraqi leaders on trial for war crimes, has accounts of mass executions in Basra and other southern cities as the Ba'ath party and the Republican Guard re-imposed their control. | | | British forces, if they enter Basra to counter resistance there, will have to follow the advice of Colonel Tim Collins of the Royal Irish Regiment who told his men before the war started: "Tread carefully". | | | The Qatari television channel al-Jazeera had a team in the city and it sent back graphic pictures of dead and wounded civilians which were widely shown in the Arab world. |
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| | The Scotsman - International - 10 killed in Basra car bomb attack |
| | A CAR bomb in the centre of the British-patrolled Iraqi city of Basra killed at least ten people last night. | | | Basra has been relatively calm compared to the regions further north, which are mostly controlled by US forces and have been ravaged by an insurgency by minority Sunni Arabs against the Shiite-led government. | | | The worst single attack on Basra occurred on 21 April last year when suicide bombers killed 73 people, including 17 children, in co-ordinated blasts targeting three police stations in the city and the police academy in nearby Zubeir. |
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| | Power Line: Greetings From Basra |
| | Zeyad of Healing Iraq has been in Basra for a few days, and out of touch. | | | Zeyad has posted a number of pictures from his trip; you can see them all on his site. | | | I like Zeyad's pictures, and those of other bloggers, because they provide an unedited glimpse into everyday life in Iraq, free of the usual big-media filter. |
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| | Sewage is not being disposed of, garbage collection is happening intermittently or not at all and people are using water from the polluted Chatt Al Arab river. | | | Another key problem is that surveillance control activities have declined or disappeared since the beginning of the war, with an almost total lack of surveillance and control of communicable diseases. | | | In Basra, it is clear that this combination is contributing to an increasing number of cases of diarrhoeal disease and there is concern that an outbreak of cholera could cause severe problems. |
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| | But as our Middle East correspondent Mark Willacy tells us in his Letter from Basra, while he did get permission from the Iraqi authorities to travel to Basra, he found the hardest thing wasn't reporting from there, it was getting there in the first place. | | | For the last 12 years, the skies over Basra have been controlled by Britain and the United States. | | | This is Mark Willacy, safely arrived in Basra for The World Today. |
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| | Ainachi, 59, was killed as he left his home in the Jubaila neighborhood in the center of Basra to go to work, Agence France- Presse reported, citing his son. | | | Ainachi took over the governorship after judge Wael Abdul Latif was named minister for governorate affairs in June in the caretaker government of Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi, AFP said. | | | Hazem al-Ainachi, coordinator for the Basra Provincial Council, and two other men were shot dead in the attack at 7:55 a.m. |
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| | Human Rights Watch interview, Ayyad Sa'afi, Basra, April 24, 2003. | | | Human Rights Watch interview, Basra, May 12, 2003. | | | Human Rights interview, Ramadhan M. Sa'adkhan, Basra, May 12, 2003. |
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| | Bay Area Soccer Referee Association |
| | Send questions or comments about this site to webmaster@basra-refs.org. | | | We are a local group of soccer officials who are affiliated with the United States Soccer Federation (USSF). | | | BASRA is proud that three National Referees and one International (FIFA) Referee started their careers with us. |
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| | The Jawa Report: Seeking the Adrenalin-Junkie Tourist |
| | With the ever-present threats of kidnapping and assassination, Basra is surely a thrilling destination, however, tourists are cautioned that they will find the city's "museums gutted, theatres shut, streets reeking with rubbish and sewage and waterways littered with capsized vessels, including Saddam Hussein's yacht." | | | Basra declared itself open to foreign visitors this week but instructed them to be vigilant, dress like locals and hire armed escorts. | | | Those odds are set to be tested if Iraqi Airways succeeds in running regular commercial flights between Basra and Heathrow, the first direct civilian air link between Iraq and the west. |
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| | CNN.com - British colonel: The battle for Basra continues - Mar. 31, 2003 |
| | CNN Chief International Correspondent Christiane Amanpour spoke to a British army spokesman Monday about the fighting. | | | Some of the fiercest fighting of the war in Iraq in recent days has been in the southern Iraqi city of Basra. | | | We're targeting the Baath Party regime in Basra particularly... |
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| | There are no reports of casualties, a U.K. military spokesman said. | | | Aug. 24 (Bloomberg) -- U.K. forces clashed with Shiite Muslim militia in the southern Iraqi city of Basra, the region from which Iraq exports almost all its oil. | | | As many as 500 militiamen connected with rebel Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr are in the streets of Basra, and U.K. forces have ``engaged'' with them during the last 24 hours, Captain Donald Francis said by telephone from Basra. |
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| | Al-Qaeda fighting with Iraqis, British claim - War on Iraq - smh.com.au |
| | March 28 2003, 9:41 AM Near Basra, Iraq: British military interrogators claim captured Iraqi soldiers have told them that al-Qaeda terrorists are fighting on the side of Saddam Hussein's forces against allied troops near Basra. | | | Al-Qaeda fighting with Iraqis, British claim - War on Iraq - smh.com.au | | | Military commanders have decided against launching an attack on Basra because of fears the operation would result in a Stalingrad-style street battle. |
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| | One person killed in explosion in Iraqi city of Basra |
| | BASRA, Iraq, Dec 23 (AFP) - An unidentified man was killed Thursday in an explosion in the southern Iraqi city of Basra, said an AFP correspondent. | | | One person killed in explosion in Iraqi city of Basra | | | The information contained in the AFP News report may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without the prior written authority of Agence France Presse. |
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| | Car bomb explodes in southern Iraqi city, five civilians killed |
| | Several people were injured in the explosion in central Basra. | | | Unlike other areas of Iraq, Basra has been relatively calm and has been spared suicide bomb attacks like the one in Baghdad on Wednesday that killed an estimated 17 people. | | | A car bomb exploded as a British military patrol passed by in the southern city of Basra Thursday, killing five Iraqi civilians, police said. |
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| | Iraq's Sunnis Register to Vote in Droves |
| | Local officials in Basra, the largest city in the region, said a car bombing killed 16 people, including at least two children, news agencies reported. | | | A roadside bombing in Basra earlier in the day killed four American security contractors who were in the lead vehicle of a convoy of U.S. diplomatic officials. | | | While political tensions have been high in Basra, bombings have been rare. |
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| | Situated in southern Iraq on the Shatt El Arab waterway, near the narrow Iraqian entry to the Persian Gulf, between Kuwait and Iran. | | | The attack is launched mainly on military and government strongholds, not on sites inside the city. | | | 2003 March: During the US/British-Iraq War, Basra comes under British attack. |
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| | Rules of Card Games: Basra |
| | Thierry Depaulis has found another short description Lebanese Basra by Fuad I. Khuri, which is reproduced near the end of the page; the book from which this comes also gives the alternative name Ashush. | | | Akabat Ibragim Khusim from the town of Sana, Yemen, who had played Basra for several years, also with a teacher from Egypt. | | | It seems that the only difference from the version described above is the possibility of playing with 3 people, in which case the deal would have to be 4 cards at a time rather than 6. |
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http://www.pagat.com/fishing/basra.html
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| | BASRA: Bahamas Air Sea Rescue Association |
| | BASRA has one full time administrator Monday thru Fridays 0900 to 1700 who, in addition to administrative duties monitors the radios, and a Controller who monitors the radios at headquarters on weekends. | | | BASRA was also able to install repeater stations in several Family Islands thanks to SEARCH and recently installed a new tower at H.Q. thanks to a generous donation from the Bahamas Billfish Championship Committee. | | | As a result of this support received from the public, the "Lady Pearl" was paid for within two years of being put into service on May 17th, 1985. |
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http://www.basra.org/about.html
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