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...mostly followers of Iranian-backed Shiite Muslim groups, protested against the film and caricatures in the southern city of Basra. Demonstrators carried Iraqi flags and posters of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei, chanting "death to America...
...allied warplanes on Sunday bombed areas in Basra province, 330 miles south of Baghdad...strike two air defense radar systems near Basra "in response to recent Iraqi hostile acts...with Iraq. The site in Ashar, south of Basra, was hit by four missiles, which destroyed...
Little noticed during the furor of recent battles in Basra and Baghdad, was the announcement by Iraq's Oil Ministry...that the attacks on the anti-US Mehdi Army in Baghdad and Basra are an attempt to block election of leaders opposed to the...
...when a roadside bomb hit his convoy near Basra. Barvels was working as an international...of Woodbury, died July 16, 2009, in Basra, southern Iraq, when insurgents attacked...Olivia, Minn., died July 16, 2009, in Basra, southern Iraq, when insurgents attacked...
...decision Monday to halve the vestigial British military force in Basra was inevitable; backing the U.S. in Iraq has become a political...security forces. So the British will not leave behind a peaceful Basra, but they are nonetheless right to leave it. The United States...
...pilots patrolling Iraqi airspace. Four Air Force F-16 fighter jets on Thursday attacked a long-range radar stationed at Basra airport, Pentagon officials said. They said the airport radar was not active at the time of the attack but had been used in...
...ahead of resupply. In this "turkey shoot," they had simply run out of gas. I've kept the operations maps in my files. Basra was to the east of our combat base. Once fuel supplies arrived, our path would surely lead west and north into the capital...
...The economy is nearing a tipping point: Foreign oil companies are refurbishing the fields of southern Iraq, and the city of Basra, a militia-ruled jungle four years ago, is beginning to boom. It's still too early to draw conclusions about Iraq, though...
...new organization called "The Fund for Change" that can support such experiments in civil society, from Rabat, Morocco, to Basra, Iraq. It should be open, independent and democratic. A final point is that U.S. military power, by itself, will not...
...to-do list includes: securing use of the previous inspection agency's Baghdad headquarters, locating possible new offices in Basra and Mosul, installing equipment, arranging travel and accommodations, and finding landing sites for aircraft. By Blix's...