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	Basra (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Basra (also known as Başrah or Basara; historically sometimes called Busra, Busrah, and early on Bassorah;, Al-Basrah) is the second largest city of Iraq with an estimated population of about 1,377,000 in 2003.
		Basra is 55 km from the Persian Gulf and 545 km from Baghdad.
		Basra is the capital of the Basra province.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/B/Basra.htm (767 words)

	Basra biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Basra (also known as Başrah or Basara; historically sometimes called Busra, Busrah, and early on Bassorah; Arabic: البصرة, Al-Basrah) is the second largest city of Iraq with an estimated population of about 1,377,000 in 2003.
		After the first Gulf War in 1991 Basra was the site of widespread revolt against Saddam Hussein, which was violently put down with much death and destruction inflicted on the city; subsequently the Iraqi government deliberately neglected the city and much commerce was diverted to Umm Qasr.
		In March through May of 2003, the outskirts of Basra were the scene of heavy fighting in the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
	basra.biography.ms (630 words)

	Basra Governorate -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Basra province, or Al Basrah province, is a province in the nation of (A republic in the Middle East in western Asia; the ancient civilization of Mesopotamia was in the area now known as Iraq; modern government is involved in state-sponsored terrorism) Iraq.
		Its capital is (The second largest city in Iraq; an oil port in southern Iraq) Basra, the largest city of southern Iraq.
		Basra province has an area of 19,070 km&2, with an estimated population of about 1,500,000 people in 2000.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/b/ba/basra_governorate.htm (153 words)

	Basra (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Situated in southern Iraq on the Shatt El Arab waterway, near the Iraqian part of the Persian Gulf that is squeezed in between Kuwait and Iran.
		The economic base of Basra is refining and exporting of oil and chemicals, as well as being the centre of an agricultural area that produces wool, grain and dates.
		Basra is rebuilt, this time more than 10 km up the river.
	i-cias.com /e.o/basra.htm (165 words)

	Basra, Iraq
		Basra accordingly had few quarrels with `Uthman and so in 656 sent few men to the embassy against him.
		However Basra did support the rebellion of Yazid ibn al-Muhallab against Yazid II during the 720s.
		The likely solution is that the first Qur'an text at Basra was "defective", which is to say it lacked long vowel signs; and that Basra accepted sura 21 as part of Qur'an later than it accepted other suras - most likely during or after the mid-680s.
	creekin.net /c4439-n88-basra-iraq.html (1895 words)

	Corruption pervades government in Basra - The Boston Globe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		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.
		Debate in Basra takes a very different form than it does in Baghdad, where secular and religious politicians are fighting over the role of Islam in a new constitution, while Kurds, Shi'ites, and Sunnis are jockeying to maximize their share of power in the new Iraq.
		The province's Sunni minority (estimated at 25 percent of the 2 million population) has kept a low profile since leading Sunni academics and former Ba'ath Party officials began to fall in an assassination campaign last year.
	www.boston.com /news/world/middleeast/articles/2005/08/08/corruption_pervades_government_in_basra?mode=PF (1519 words)

	Text News
		Basra, the country's second-largest city and the principal port city, would be the new regional government's capital.
		Basra would be a more powerful city, with more oil, agriculture, trade and tourism under its control.
		Al Waely said he and the governors of the two other provinces planned to bring their proposal to the constitutional committee within weeks, hoping that the permanent constitution would spell out the relationship between their proposed state and the central government.
	home.cogeco.ca /~kobserver/25-5-05-proposal-to-divide-irq-semi-autonomous-states.htm (1025 words)

	Iraq militia cell uncovered - theage.com.au (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Tamimi, who was handed over to British forces after his interrogation, said that "the Baath and Saddam's Fedayeen have a large network of activists in (Basra) province as well as a cache of arms, including heavy weapons, in one of the villages of the area," according to Jaburi.
		Jaburi said the suspect revealed he had been sent "on a mission to Basra" by Kassem Swidan, a Fedayeen activist who is the brother of the ex-Baath chief in the Basra village of Mussaieb.
		The tribal chief was killed near the Basra office of the Supreme Assembly of the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SAIRI), the main Iraqi Shiite movement, and members of his tribe said they suspected the group's armed wing, the Badr Brigade, of being behind the murder.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2003/06/08/1055010863805.html (494 words)

	HOK - Hærens Operative Kommando
		The Danish contingent based at Camp Eden North West of Basra, along with Lt Mindauegas Mastavicius (Lithuanian) who was appointed the Project Manager for the local Agricultural Sub Committee, have been working with locals around Medina to refurbish water pumps along the Euphrates in order to supply the local date palms with much-needed water.
		Basra Province has seen the 6 of the 12 VSAT communications equipment sets installed, giving vital communications capability to the Port of Umm Qasr, Khor Az Zubayr, Basra International Airport, R Zero water station, the Department for Irrigation, and Department for Displaced Persons.
		In Maysan Province, a number of projects have been ongoing to improve the lives of the local population.
	www.hok.dk /more.php?id=1038_0_1_0_C (1619 words)

	village voice > news > Robbing the Poor by David Axe
		This is the port of Basra city, the heart of a province that Minister of Transportation Salam Al-Maliki calls Iraq's "commercial capital." In a country with decimated airports, few international highways, and hardly any active railroads, Basra Province's two ports are the best way in and out for food, oil, and goods.
		Basra Province encompasses some of the most valuable land in the country.
		Exacerbating residents' frustration is the presence in the southern provinces of several new and renovated power plants that would be capable of providing uninterrupted electricity to everyone in southern Iraq.
	www.villagevoice.com /news/0536,axe,67483,6.html (1281 words)

	British troops seize 12 in Basra raids - Boston.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		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 British military said on Friday.
		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 British military said on Friday.
		Sources in Sadr's office in Basra said those detained included several lieutenants in Basra's interior affairs department, which is part of the Interior Ministry, and an official with the local electricity authority.
	www.boston.com /news/world/middleeast/articles/2005/10/07/british_troops_seize_12_suspects_in_basra_raids (711 words)

	GN Online: Allies target Baath fighters
		British troops besieging Basra were targeting Iraq's ruling Baath party yesterday but were in "no rush" to enter the country's second city, a British military spokesman said.
		Five giant plumes of fl smoke rose from the southern edge of Basra yesterday, possibly from oil-filled trenches meant as a smokescreen to confuse attacking planes.
		But the rest of Basra province has proved tougher, dashing the invaders' hopes that resistance in the south would crumble and that people would welcome U.S. and British forces as liberators.
	www.gulf-news.com /Articles/print.asp?ArticleID=82554 (1143 words)

	ABS-CBN Interactive
		BASRA, Iraq - Iraqi police staged an angry anti-British protest in Basra on Wednesday as London and Baghdad sought to quell tension over a British raid to free soldiers held by militiamen in the southern city.
		Bayan Jabor told the BBC the men had never left police custody or the jail in Basra and were not handed to militants.
		Basra, a mainly Shi'ite Muslim city, has experienced a surge in militia activity over the past nine months, with armed Shi'ite factions vying for influence in the security forces and the local council.
	www.abs-cbnnews.com /storypage.aspx?StoryId=16912 (944 words)

	Municipality services in basra not confrm to its internationa site
		So'ud Abdul Aziz the Director of al-Basra province said that the province is considered like the economic lung of Iraq, pointing out that attributing attention to the city's cleaning is among the province priorities.
		He added that al_Basra potentialities at the center of the city are only 35 machines only to lift garbage at the time the province is in need for 400 cars, referring that al-Basra has been divided to ten sectors, through which, 1500 are working along with 100 trucks.
		He clarified that the municipality had received 10 vehicles from UAE recently, referring that this number have not cover the required area, referring that lifting garbage responsibility will be instructed for contractors, clarifying that accumulating wastes and burning them inside the cities led for environment contamination.
	www.iraqdirectory.com /files/articles/article370.htm (184 words)

	The Telegraph - Calcutta : International (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Basra, April 8 (Reuters): British officials said a local “sheikh” would form the leadership in Basra province, as residents no longer under the yoke of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein’s loyalists complained of lawlessness and want.
		Basically what we see in Basra province is a broadly functioning civil infrastructure,” he said.
		Basra General Hospital, like the rest of the city, has no water supply and doctors say medical supplies are running low.
	www.telegraphindia.com /1030409/asp/foreign/story_1855125.asp (725 words)

	Telegraph \| News \| Britain's troops take the strain as Dutch pull out
		British troops have moved west of Basra to assume responsibility for the neighbouring province and in the process have more than doubled the area under direct British military control.
		Although the British arrival was greeted by a rocket fired at the camp, Muthanna is considered one of the quietest provinces in Iraq.
		The Japanese are under instructions by their government not to fire their weapons unless it is a matter of life or death, a position requiring other countries to provide them with protective support.
	news.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/03/14/wirq14.xml (731 words)

	200 attend Basra Federation of Workers' councils and Unions conference on November 26 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		On November 26 2004 the first broad conference for the workers of Basra province was held in this southern Iraqi city.
		The harmony and unity around the resolutions and issues raised by the conference was apparent in that most of the resolutions were passed unanimously.
		The Basra conference offered proof that women have a growing and important role in the workers' movement.
	www.wpiraq.net /english/2004/workerfederation-basra191204.htm (739 words)

	IRVAJ English -
		Less than a week before the first national election since longtime oppressor Saddam Hussein was toppled, the mood of Basrans is generally downbeat, and their simmering frustration with the city's interim rulers could result in a surprise at the polls.
		SCIRI's grip on local politics is particularly galling for Sunni politicians in Basra, who say that the province's 25% Sunni population has been frozen out of all levels of the government and security forces.
		Anger among marginalized Sunnis in Basra, Eissa said, was probably responsible for the recent wave of insurgent violence.
	www.iranvajahan.net /cgi-bin/news.pl?l=en&y=2005&m=01&d=25&a=4 (1028 words)

	CAAB - US-British air strikes kill two, injure nine: Iraq - 10/2/03 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		"Enemy combat aircraft struck civilian installations in Basra province, where two civilians were killed and nine were wounded," the spokesman said in a report carried by the official INA news agency.
		Basra is 555 kilometers (345 miles) south of Baghdad.
		The United States and Britain maintain that their air patrols are necessary to protect the Shiite Muslim population of southern Iraq and the Kurds in the north from the central government led by President Saddam Hussein.
	cndyorks.gn.apc.org /caab/articles/usukstrikeiraq.htm (268 words)

	Coalition targets Baath party in Basra, as civilians stream back into city
		The demonstration of coalition firepower came after the British, who are besieging Basra, said that the Baath party apparatus in the city was now their chief target.
		The British were carefully checking the few vehicles allowed to go into Basra for weapons and uniforms, and most people were made to leave their cars and walk the four kilometres (2.5 miles) to the city.
		The coalition had been hoping that Basra's mainly Shiite population would rise up against Saddam's regime, which is dominated by Sunnis in Baghdad.
	www.spacewar.com /2003-a/030329184413.h6yk32l4.html (764 words)

	PRESS RELEASE COALITION PROVISIONAL
		The new Regional Coordinator for the Coalition Provisional Authority Southern Region, Ambassador Sir Hilary Synnott today took the opportunity of his first meeting with the Governor of Basra Province, Judge Wael Abdelaetif to praise the work of the Interim Council.
		I am delighted to learn of the diligence and dedication of the Council as it serves the people of Basra Province, representing for the first time in many years the true views and aspirations of the Iraqi people.
		On completion of briefing in Basra, Baghdad and elsewhere, he takes up his post fully at the end of this month.
	www.cpa-iraq.org /pressreleases/PR11south_synnott1Aug03.html (234 words)

	Iraq's oil exports suspended by strike (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		A week ago, the governor of Basra, Mohammed Mosbeh al-Waeli, demanded a fair share of oil revenues from the central government for his southern Iraqi province, hinting that failure to do so could foment secessionist sentiment in his Shiite heartland.
		"The masses in Basra province have given the government a three-week deadline to fulfill their demands and warn against any attempts to treat them lightly or ignore them, because this will have negative consequences for the central government," he added.
		The governor denied he was working to split Basra province from the rest of the country and declined to elaborate on what he would do if the government failed to meet the deadline.
	www.turkishpress.com /news.asp?id=60729 (414 words)

	British appoint tribal leader for Basra area (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The British Army said on Tuesday it had appointed a tribal chief to provide civilian leadership in Iraq's southern Basra province now that forces loyal to President Saddam Hussein had been ousted by UK troops.
		Basically what we see in the Basra province is a broadly functioning civil infrastructure," he said, speaking a day after British forces entered the heart of Iraq's second largest city.
		"He will form, at present, the leadership within the Basra province and we have asked him to form a committee from the local community that is representative of the local community.
	www.rediff.com /us/2003/apr/08iraq6.htm (402 words)

	Gunmen Shoot Dead Interim Governor Of Basra Province (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Hazem al-Ainachi, coordinator for the Basra Provincial Council, and two other men were shot dead in the attack at 7:55 a.m.
		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.
	www.rense.com /general54/prov.htm (214 words)

	Global Vision News Network (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The spokesman said the attack on the airport in Basra, 300 miles (480 km) southeast of Baghdad, took place on Sunday at 00:45 a.m.
		Basra airport occupies a large area in strategic Basra province, home to Iraq's main port at the head of the Gulf and major oil installations.
		Sunday's raids took place at a time when three U.S. congressmen were visiting Basra to assess the humanitarian situation in the southern Iraqi city.
	www.gvnews.net /html/Shadow/alert2837.html (643 words)

	In the south, a bid to loosen Baghdad's grip \| csmonitor.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		BASRA, IRAQ – Crowded into a narrow room beneath an image of the Shiite icon Imam Ali, members of the Garamsha tribe drink tea and discuss current events with visiting journalists.
		Last month, representatives of the GCs from the southern provinces of Basra, Maysan, and Dhi Qar met to discuss forming a single administrative unit.
		Basra GC member Hamid al-Dhalimy notes that the US-designed Temporary Administrative Law - which forms the current guidelines for Iraq's government - allows three provinces to unite and veto any provisions to the yet-to-be-written Iraqi constitution.
	www.csmonitor.com /2005/0628/p01s04-woiq.html (1268 words)

	US jets bomb Iraqi airport (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The United States said it had hit a military radar at the airport and the target was far from civilian activity.
		The airport occupies a large area in the strategic Basra province, home to Iraq's main port at the head of the Gulf and major oil installations.
		"Al Basra is an airfield that's used both by civilian aircraft and by military aircraft by the Iraqis," Marine Corps Gen Peter Pace, vice chairman of the U.S. military Joint Chiefs of Staff, told reporters later in response to questions at a Pentagon briefing.
	www.capitolhillblue.com /cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi?archive=9&num=546&printer=1 (676 words)

	CNN.com - Basra governor: British threatening vote - Oct 10, 2005
		BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Recent tensions between Iraqi forces and the British military are threatening the upcoming constitutional referendum, the governor of Basra province warned Monday.
		In a statement Friday, the British military said it was concerned "that members of Basra police are involved in terrorism.
		Basra officials said the two men, dressed in civilian clothes, were arrested after they began firing on civilians.
	www.cnn.com /2005/WORLD/meast/10/10/iraq.main (751 words)

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