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	CNN.com - Basra bombs kill at least 68 Iraqis - Apr 21, 2004
		Most of the dead were civilians, killed in three bombings: one near each of three Basra police stations and two at the nearby Regional Police Academy at Az Zubayr, police said.
		Ten boys and girls being driven to kindergarten in a minivan and eight girls in another minivan headed to a high school were killed in one of the blasts, according to police official Col. Ali Abdullah.
		Basra, which is a relatively quiet region of Iraq, is under the control of British coalition forces.
	www.cnn.com /2004/WORLD/meast/04/21/iraq.main (1214 words)

	Environmentalists Against War
		The two arrested persons are now at the Intelligence Department in Basra, and they were held by the National Guard force, but the British occupation forces are still surrounding this department in an attempt to absolve them of the crime.
		And in a significant incident in the city of Basra, which is also marking the same religious event, Iraqi demonstrators set fire to two British tanks near a police station after Iraqi police had arrested two British soldiers disguised in civilian clothes for opening fire on police.
		Basra, capital of the Shiite south, has been relatively stable compared with central Iraq, where Sunni Arab insurgents have killed thousands of Iraqi and US troops, officials and civilians with suicide attacks, roadside bombs and shootings.
	www.envirosagainstwar.org /know/read.php?itemid=3189 (3069 words)

	British troops in pitched battle in Basra
		Mohammed al-Abadi, an official at the Basra governorate, told newswires that police had believed the SAS men were “suspicious.” When one policeman approached the car, “one of these guys fired at him,” Abadi said.
		In Basra, the army will have been aware that the police were recruiting from amongst the militias and would have looked favourably on this as a means of reinforcing its own control.
		Basra proves once again that the precondition for the development of any genuine democratic government in Iraq is the immediate and unconditional withdrawal of all occupying forces.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2005/sep2005/basr-s21.shtml (1485 words)

	WHO \| WHO health briefing on Iraq
		This was a three-day workshop in the the Child and Maternal Hospital in Basra for directors of the health districts, as well as staff from the Centres for Disease Control in Basra and Baghdad.
		Its most important outcome is that all 82 health centers and 10 hospitals in Basra Governorate will report on a weekly basis on measles, whooping cough, typhoid, watery or bloody diarrhoea, cholera, leishmaniasis, injuries from mines and unexploded ordnance.
		A WHO pharmacist in Basra is coordinating with the central warehouse managers to identify the needs in the four Governorates of the South, Basra included.
	www.who.int /features/2003/iraq/briefings/friday6/en (803 words)

	Outrage Spreads over New Images By Dahr Jamail and Arkan Hamed
		After footage of British troops beating young Iraqis with fists and batons was aired earlier, the Governorate of Basra announced it has severed ties to the British military.
		Far from cooperating, people in Basra are now prepared to fight the occupation forces, he said.
		Similar views are being echoed around Basra, a relatively quieter area in the south under charge of British troops.
	www.countercurrents.org /iraq-jamail170206.htm (683 words)

	The Randi Rhodes Show on Air America Radio
		BASRA, 9 July (IRIN) - NGOs devoted to health issues in southern Iraq say that dozens of children have died of relatively common diseases since January due to a lack of medicine.
		According to doctors at Basra's Maternity and Child Hospital, about 14 to 16 new cancer and leukaemia cases have also been reported among children each month.
		Kala Azar, transmitted by the sand fly, is a chronic and potentially fatal parasitic disease that preys on the internal organs.
	www.therandirhodesshow.com /live/node/3458 (784 words)

	Cannabis Culture Forums: Two Britons Held in Iraq for Firing at Police (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		The capture of the SAS men came a day after British forces in Basra arrested two leading members of the outlawed Mahdi Army, which is loyal to firebrand cleric Muqtada al-Sadr and is widely believed to have heavily infiltrated police in the city.
		Police in Basra said the SAS men, who were travelling in a car dressed as Arab men, shot and killed a policeman when they were stopped.
		British troops in the tense southern city of Basra greatly reduced their presence in the streets Thursday, apparently responding to a call from the provincial governor to sever cooperation until London apologized for storming a police station to free two of its soldiers.
	www.cannabisculture.com /forums/showflat.php?Number=1153889 (4785 words)

	IRIN Middle East \| Middle East \| Iraq \| IRAQ: Insecurity means rising unemployment \| Other \| News Item (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		BASRA, 28 June 2004 (IRIN) - Many foreign companies have scaled back or paused operations in Iraq in part due to rising security threats, exacerbating the still high unemployment rate in the country.
		Abdel Hussein al-Basri, head of media relations for the governorate of Basra in southern Iraq, told IRIN that unemployment could be as high as 60 percent in the south.
		Worker Ali Ahmed told IRIN in Basra that he worked for one week for a big international company, but in that brief time he received threats for working with the Americans and the British.
	www.irinnews.org /report.asp?ReportID=41899&SelectRegion=Iraq_Crisis&SelectCountry=IRAQ (1012 words)

	UK troops clash with militia in Basra -DAWN - International; 30 March, 2004
		BASRA, March 29: Two British soldiers were injured on Monday in a clash with militiamen as they tried to evict them from a building in the southern Iraqi port city of Basra, a British army spokesman said.
		Ten days ago the governorate of Basra sent the militiamen an injunction order to vacate the premises but the group, which set up a press office in the building, refused to budge.
		Thaarallah is one of a plethora of militias based in Basra, which is under British control.
	dawn.com /2004/03/30/int1.htm (281 words)

	Press Releases: Iraq, Disease outbreak reported: Cholera in Iraq - Update 3
		From 28 April to 4 June 2003, a total of 73 laboratory-confirmed cholera cases have been reported in Iraq : 68 in Basra governorate, 4 in Missan governorate, 1 in Muthana governorate.
		From 17 May to 4 June 2003, the daily surveillance system of diarrhoeal disease cases in the four main hospitals of Basra reported a total of 1549 cases of acute watery diarrhea.
		The surveillance system is being expanded to the whole Lower South (all 4 governorates) and weekly reports from all facilities have begun.
	www.reliefweb.int /w/rwb.nsf/480fa8736b88bbc3c12564f6004c8ad5/1be6515ecead3ae285256d4a00572f02?OpenDocument (233 words)

	The Raw Story \| Caught red-handed
		Basra is relatively stable compared to central Iraq where violence involving insurgents, civilians and coalition forces is a daily routine.
		After British Army tanks "flattened the wall" of the station, UK troops "broke into the police station to confirm the men were not there" and then "staged a rescue from a house in Basra", according a commanding officer familiar with the operation.
		In an interview with Al Jazeerah TV, the popular Iraqi leader Fattah al-Sheikh, a member of the Iraqi National Assembly and deputy official in the Basra governorate, said that police had "caught two non-Iraqis, who seem to be Britons and were in a car of the Cressida type.
	rawstory.com /news/2005/CAUGHT_RED__0923.html (1245 words)

	IRAQ: Power shortage in south prompts major health concerns
		BASRA, 21 June (IRIN) - With the summer heat well under way, power shortages across Iraq and particularly the south have prompted health concerns.
		The shortage has also raised tempers with local people recently demonstrating in front of the offices of Basra governorate, calling on the authorities to improve the situation.
		Residents in Basra are suffering more than Iraqis in other parts of the country, particularly because the southern region was also neglected during Saddam's time following an abortive uprising against the ousted leader in the early 1990s.
	www.health-now.org /site/article.php?menuId=14&articleId=275 (885 words)

	IRAQ: THE BATTLE OF BASRA... 'DEMOCRATIC' IRAQ RISES UP AGAINST OCCUPIERS
		Outgunned, the Iraqis stood their ground as frantic negotiations went on behind the scenes, with the Brits demanding the release of their two spies and the police – under pressure from the surly crowd gathered outside – continuing to delay and refuse, even when the Interior Ministry in Baghdad intervened on behalf of the Brits.
		frames the Basra events as stemming from a murky internecine struggle involving the various party militias, such as the Mahdi Army and the Badr Brigade.
		Incidents such as what happened in Basra are like lightning at midnight: the landscape, formerly covered in murk, is illuminated with shocking suddenness, its outline starkly visible if only for a brilliant moment.
	www.etherzone.com /2005/raim092105.shtml (1410 words)

	Occupied Basra Electricity Workers Strike (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		Basra oil workers have joined Electricity workers in their threats to 'Shut Down Iraq' if their wages aren't corrected.
		Samir Hanoon, Vice President of the Basra Federation of Trade Unions explained: Negotiations with the GC and CPA are ongoing.
		Approximately one month ago, Oil workers throughout Iraq's Oil jugular vein governorate of Basra announced the formation of their own wagetable - challenging the CPA's Order 30 which set a 130 position, 10 step and 13 level wage table.
	www.kclabor.org /occupied_basra_electricity_worke.htm (1291 words)

	informationliberation - Dressed As Arabs, U.K. Troops Nabbed For Setting Bombs & Shooting Iraqi Cops
		Speaking of journalists in Basra, a reporter working for the New York Times was found murdered there, today.
		In a separate development in Basra, an Iraqi working as a local reporter in Basra for the New York Times was found dead Monday after being kidnapped by masked men, sources close to his family said.
		Although Basra, where UK forces are headquartered, has been relatively calm compared to Baghdad, the southern city and its police force has reportedly come under the direct control of Shia Muslim militias.
	www.informationliberation.com /?id=1456 (1201 words)

	Business Day - News Worth Knowing
		BASRA — British tanks smashed into an Iraqi prison to free two undercover British soldiers seized yesterday by Iraqi forces, an interior ministry official and witnesses said.
		Mohammed al-Abadi, an official in the Basra governorate, said the two men looked sus- picious to the Iraqi police.
		People had driven through the streets of Basra with loudhailers demanding that the undercover Britons remain in detention and be sent to jail.
	www.businessday.co.za /articles/world.aspx?ID=BD4A93737 (434 words)

	Iraq bulletin – 13 May 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		In Basra some schools are reopening, but life is still far from normal and security is still a problem.
		The ICRC installed a 10 cubic metre bladder at the Abu al Kasib hospital, and is continuing water distribution by tankers to the hospitals of Basra.
		In Basra governorate, Iraqi Red Crescent volunteers have visited 50 sites to raise awareness about the dangers of mines and unexploded shells and bombs.
	www.icrc.org /Web/Eng/siteeng0.nsf/iwpList4/5BB9F7CA9D9A6597C1256D25004F40C8 (856 words)

	Human Rights
		In a savage act aimed at terrorising the people, the Iraqi authorities have recently executed 8 citizens from Basra governorate after charging them with contacting opposition forces.
		There were clear signs of torture on the bodies of victims whose families were prevented from conducting the traditional mourning ceremonies.
		3- Ali Abd al-Hussein Lazem, a student of the Education College at Basra University, and a resident of Garmat Ali.
	www.iraqfoundation.org /hr/2002/ajan/11_1_basrah.html (365 words)

	Bahrain Tribune Daily Newspaper, Bahrain
		BASRA, Iraq: British troops withdrew from the office of radical leader Moqtada Sadr in the southern Iraqi city of Basra yesterday after commandeering the building in overnight clashes that wounded eight people, officials said.
		Meanwhile, the body of Bassem Mohammed, deputy governor of Al Anbar, was found in an open field near Ramadi, the capital of the restive province, a police officer said.
		In August, the national guard chief for Fallujah was kidnapped and beheaded, with footage of his execution sold on videotape in the rebel city.
	www.bahraintribune.com /ArticleDetail.asp?CategoryId=2&ArticleId=44848 (723 words)

	Iraq 2004. UK Med Group Photo Gallery by Ian Miller at pbase.com
		In March through May of 2003, the outskirts of Basra were the scene of heavy fighting in the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
		In March 2005, a group of students were beaten to death for playing music, and for engaging in unconstrained interaction between males and females.
		Political groups and their ideology which are strong in Basra are reported to have close links with political parties already in power in the Iraqi government, despite opposition from Iraqi Sunnis and the more secular Kurds.
	www.pbase.com /kissfoto/irag (316 words)

	Iraq bulletin – 1 May 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		In addition, clothes donated by the Bahrain Red Crescent Society were distributed to patients in Basra's three main hospitals (Basra teaching hospital, Basra general hospital and al Tahrir hospital).
		The problem of unexploded ordnance is rife: the IRCS in Basra alone has reported some 30 different contaminated locations and several incidents have already been reported.
		IRCS volunteers in Basra are currently following formal training by ICRC mine awareness specialists before they start surveys of over 170 towns and villages in Basra governorate.
	www.icrc.org /web/eng/siteeng0.nsf/htmlall/5M5LLK?OpenDocument&View=defaultBody&style=custo_print (1245 words)

	The British 9/11 Truth Campaign :: View topic - Black ops in Iraq?
		Basra governor Mohammed al-Waili said the men - possibly working undercover - were arrested for allegedly shooting dead a policeman and wounding another.
		Moreover, the Basra authorities denied that the two men had been handed over to militia even though the Times story states categorically that ‘[t]hey were freed from a nearby house’.
		I suppose the secret mission in the hinterland of Basra explains what they were doing in Basra itself, near where there was to be a protest against the British seizure of a local leader blamed by the British for their recent problems in the area.
	www.nineeleven.co.uk /board/viewtopic.php?p=1013 (8387 words)

	Iraq: Outrage Spreads Over New Images - by Dahr Jamail
		Imperialism is an institution under which one nation asserts the right to seize the land or at least to control the government or resources of another people.
		BASRA - New footage of British soldiers beating up young Iraqi men in Amarah in 2003 and the release of more photographs of atrocities by U.S. soldiers against Iraqi detainees in Abu Ghraib prison have spread outrage across Iraq.
		After footage of British troops beating young Iraqis with fists and batons was aired earlier, the governorate of Basra announced it had severed ties to the British military.
	www.antiwar.com /jamail/?articleid=8563 (862 words)

	Report by the Special Rapporteur on the
		For example, it was reported that 52 houses had been demolished in the city of Basra, 9 in the quarter of Al-Jamhuriyah, 5 in the city of Al-Zubier, 7 in Al-Karmah, 12 in Abo Al-Khaseib and 5 in Al-Tanumah.
		In the three governorates of the autonomous northern region, the under-five mortality rate rose from 80 deaths per 1,000 live births in the period 1984-1989 to 90 deaths per 1,000 live births during the years 1989-1994.
		The captain of the boat had an export certificate from the port of Basra and was found to be carrying cotton seed, 75 cartons of infant powder and 25 cartons of infant feeding bottles.
	www.unhchr.ch /Huridocda/Huridoca.nsf/(Symbol)/A.54.466.En?Opendocument (4360 words)

	Monday 27
		The detainees, who were numbered in their hundreds, were then held at the detention centre of the Security Directorate of Basra governorate, in AI-Ashar district.
		Family members of security men who had been killed in the heroic revolt were brought to the scene, each was handed a machine gun, and they were told to avenge their dead by firing at the youths and men lined up before them.
		Reliable sources in Basra have estimated the total number of victims of the campaign of mass executions,which followed the suppression of the popular revolt, to range from 400 to 600 people.
	www.iraqcp.org /framse1/humm.htm (569 words)

	British tank attacked; 2 troops held in Basra -DAWN - International; September 20, 2005
		BASRA, Sept 19: Angry crowds attacked a British tank with petrol bombs and rocks in Basra on Monday after Iraqi authorities detained two British undercover soldiers in the southern city for firing on police.
		An Iraqi official in Basra said the British military had informed him the detained men were undercover soldiers.
		A witness said people later drove through the streets of Basra with loudhailers demanding that the undercover Britons remain in detention and be sent to jail.—Reuters
	www.dawn.com /2005/09/20/int2.htm (370 words)

	Voices in the Wilderness : A Week in British Occupied Basra
		The streets of Basra are heavily patrolled by camouflage uniformed, and by night, balaclava wearing Iraqi police, packed into white open-air trucks, 5 in the back, each holding up heavy arms.
		On the whole, people are afraid to say anything negative at all about them, but when the subject unravels and people relax, start to explore their own opinions, their revulsion and defiance at the occupation becomes apparent and more outspoken.
		This could be because most of the ‘Big Fry’ corporate operations mangers are locked up in the British army compound inside the Basra Baath Republican Palace or stay outside the country altogether in Kuwait, entering by armed convoy in the mornings and leaving before sunset for the border.
	vitw.org /archives/164 (1328 words)

	Britain "apologizes" for terrorist act in Basra
		This comes after a British [army] unit stormed Basra police station and used force to release two British soldiers arrested by Iraqi police for the charge of seeking to carry out sabotage acts and stirring sedition among the residents of the city.
		The statement will be seen as an attempt to rebuild relations between the army and the authorities in Basra ahead of Saturday's referendum on a new Iraq constitution and elections in December.
		In the immediate aftermath of the incident, Mohammed al-Waili, the governor, attacked the British action as "barbaric" and warned that he would end co-operation with UK forces unless he received an apology.
	www.prisonplanet.com /articles/october2005/161005Brit_terrorism.htm (713 words)

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