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	Tomgram: Michael Schwartz on What We Don't See in Iraq
		Maysan is not in the "Sunni Triangle," so it is not in the eye of the Sunni resistance hurricane.
		Maysan is worth our attention for another reason: For the past two-plus years it has been the site of a low-intensity, low-visibility war that may be a better measure of the fate of the occupation than higher profile battles in cities like Falluja and Tal Afar.
		Maysan is by no means a typical province, as the many elements in its history make clear.
	www.tomdispatch.com /index.mhtml?pid=32961 (3030 words)

	Maysan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Maysan is one of the governorates of Iraq.
		Maysan suffered greatly during the Iran-Iraq War, during which it was a major battlefield.
		A proposal to join Maysan with the neighbouring governorates of Basra and Dhi Qar to form a southeastern state in an eventual Iraqi federation is currently in the talking stages.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Maysan (105 words)

	Gorilla’s Guides » Maysan (Governorate)
		The southern governorates are to coordinate mine clearance operations representatives from Maysan, Dhi Qar and Babel, Najaf and Karbala attended a conferencein Basrah and agreed to coordinate their efforts.
		Maysan recorded 183 violent incidents that caused 273 civilian deaths and left 268 civilians critically injured.
		An official in the Iraqi Cabinet, who spoke on condition of anonymity as he was not authorised to talk to the media, told IRIN that RSF’s proposal had been circulating in government corridors but would be hard to implement because of the deteriorated security situation in the country.
	gorillasguides.com /category/iraq/maysan (10208 words)

	village voice > news > The Razor's Edge by David Axe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		As a result, Williams says, "Maysan does not have a Sunni problem." The insurgency here is a different animal than the insurgency in Baghdad and the Sunni triangle, which has well-financed former-regime types, Zarqawist madmen, and the occasional jihadist heaven-bent on blowing himself up at a police station.
		Williams says the attacks on his soldiers may be the work of a small group of residents who've decided that the occupiers have had their chance to prove their worth and have failed; now it's time for them to go.
		Otherwise, "violence in Maysan province is a way of life," Williams says, citing the recent (and perhaps tribal-motivated) murders of two Iraqi policemen in the province.
	www.villagevoice.com /news/0527,axe,65576,6.html (1740 words)

	Çukurova Group - Industry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		aysan Mando was established as a 50/50 joint venture between Mando Corporation of South Korea and Maysan in September 1997.
		The Maysan Mando plant in Bursa has an annual production capacity of two million shock absorbers, 15 million sintered components and two million automatic washing machine dampers.
		In 2001, Maysan Mando had gross sales of TL 9,091 billion and a shareholders' equity of TL 5,061 billion.
	www.cukurovaholding.com.tr /industry/maysan.htm (162 words)

	Iraqi Marsh Arabs Discuss Future of Wetlands
		The founding conference of the Maysan Marsh Arab Council marked the first time that Iraq's Marsh Arabs publicly expressed their wishes and concerns for the future of their marshland environment.
		According to a report from the Maysan Province office of the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA), several hundred marshland residents gathered in the city of Amarah, Iraq, on March 20 to meet with scientific experts and government officials regarding projects to restore portions of Iraq's wetlands.
		The report indicated that this was only the first in a series of meetings aimed at bringing local residents into the dialogue regarding the future of their region.
	www.cpa-iraq.org /pressreleases/20040322_marsh_arabs.html (499 words)

	GN Online: Lord of marshes joins with troops
		In the lawless south-eastern Iraqi province of Maysan, near the Iranian border, Karim Mahoud Al Mahamadawi - known universally by his nom de guerre Abu Hattem - and Lt Col Mark Castle, commanding officer of the King's Own Scottish Borderers, have forged a close and successful working relationship.
		In Maysan, Abu Hattem and Lt Col Castle work closely to solve tribal disputes, tackle looting and smuggling and calm tensi-ons between locals and British troops.
		Abu Hattem, 45, earned the respect of the people of Maysan - and the sobriquet Lord of the Marshes - for his exploits as leader of a Shiite rebel faction in the southern marshland after his release from jail in 1986.
	www.gulf-news.com /Articles/print.asp?ArticleID=97678 (547 words)

	Iraq's Maysan Province mixes peace and war -- World Peace Herald (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		A British patrol conducted Aug. 7 might offer a perfect microcosm of the situation in Maysan province, where a low-level conflict with Iranian-backed smugglers and militiamen periodically disrupts an uneasy peace.
		Despite the violence, the Iraqis here consider Maysan to be safe and secure because -- unlike in the Sunni triangle -- local civilians and police are not the targets of the insurgents.
		The local army brigade patrols the rural areas of Maysan, interdicting smugglers and insurgents.
	www.wpherald.com /print.php?StoryID=20050811-114326-2856r (1538 words)

	British consider partial pullout - World - The Washington Times, America's Newspaper (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Col. Williams called the security situation in Maysan "serious," but added that local forces are on track to take over security this year.
		His superiors at British army headquarters in Northwood, near London, decline to discuss dates, saying any drawdown of the 8,500 British troops in Iraq is contingent on Iraqi forces taking on greater responsibility for the country's security.
		Maysan province, with nearly 1 million people and few major industries, is one of the poorest of Iraq's 18 provinces.
	washingtontimes.com /world/20050607-115828-7402r.htm (409 words)

	Iran Focus-News - Iraq - Sophisticated strikes threaten British withdrawal from Iraq
		The 1,000-strong Task Force Maysan, stationed south of Amara, has noticed a dramatic change in the "quality" of attacks on them this summer.
		British forces were due to leave Maysan and the neighbouring desert province of al-Mathana early next year, after the general election due to be held in Iraq on 15 December.
		The arms, and training in their use, are believed to have been provided by local militias and units of the Revolutionary Guard across the border, though not necessarily sanctioned by Tehran.
	www.iranfocus.com /modules/news/article.php?storyid=3067 (675 words)

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	www.metroroommates.com /city_rentals/Maysan_Rentals.asp (78 words)

	news.mod.uk - Latest News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The aim of the operation was to arrest a small number of specific suspects, all of whom are believed to be Iraqi citizens.
		Careful consideration was given to the planning and execution of the operation in order to minimise disruption to innocent civilians, as the vast majority of the citizens of Maysan Province are not involved in any way with the terrorist elements that reside within their community.
		The operation is not connected to the ongoing Iraqi investigation of the murder of six Royal Military Policemen in Maysan province in 2003.
	news.mod.uk /news/press/news_headline_story.asp?newsItem_id=3284 (317 words)

	Distrust of government even in Shiite provinces bodes ill for Iraq's future - 11/20/04
		Abdul Hussain Mahmoud Badar arrived in the desolate moonscape of Maysan province from Baghdad last week to take command of the newly formed 73rd Brigade of the Iraqi national guard.
		The province is bisected by Route 6, an infamous highway that roughly follows the flow of the Tigris River and links Maysan to the commercial center of Basra to the south.
		Al-Sadr loyalists also fought a series of less-publicized battles in Maysan against British soldiers with the Princess of Wales' Royal Regiment, clashes that began in April and culminated in August with a firefight at a road junction the British call Danny Boy, just north of Majar Kabir.
	www.detnews.com /2004/nation/0411/20/nation-11013.htm (1378 words)

	HOK - Hærens Operative Kommando
		During the last 2 weeks in Maysan Province, tests have been ongoing on the new Buzargan gas turbines to ensure they are fully operational.
		The turbines have successfully completed all the tests and 8 generators will be fitted to the sub station south of Al Amarah by the end of this week.
		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)

	Telegraph \| News \| Welsh Guards seek justice for Redcap killings
		They plan to crack down on Shia fighters while seeking to persuade local leaders that their co-operation will enable much-needed improvements to the town's infrastructure.
		Like South Armagh, where Lt Col Bathurst was a company commander, Maysan province has a history of rebellion and independence.
		"Maysan is the backwater of Iraq," he said.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/12/12/wirq12.xml&sSheet=/news/2004/12/12/ixnewstop.html (762 words)

	Telegraph \| News \| Guards suffer the catapult gangs with good humour
		Children with catapults lurk at most street corners in Maysan province, the most lawless and by far the most dangerous of the four in Iraq under British control.
		Their idea of fun is to ambush patrolling soldiers by hitting one of the guardsmen providing cover through the top hatch of their armoured Land Rovers.
		In Maysan every soldier on patrol wears a helmet and bullet-proof vest and any exchanges of firepower are confronted and suppressed.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/02/03/wirq03.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/02/03/ixworld.html (710 words)

	Amarah
		Amarah [Amara] is the administrative center of Maysan [Misan] Governate [and should not be confused with the Al 'Amarah Marsh].
		The bulk of the Battlegroup is based at Camp Abu Naji which is just south of Al Amarah, the main city of Maysan Province.
		In the north, B Squadron of the Queen's Royal Hussars live in an old barracks in the town of Ali Ash Sharqi that is called Camp Jennings.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/iraq/amarah.htm (492 words)

	THE BELGRAVIA DISPATCH: Getting To Know You
		Rory Stewart, a member the British government, served with the Coalition Provisional Authority as deputy governor of the Maysan and Dhi Qar provinces in southern Iraq from August 2003 until June 2004.
		In Maysan, a proxy of Muqtada's party took three times as many votes as the next party, and the head of the Sadr office in a provincial city became governor of Maysan.
		In Maysan, in October 2003, the police chief was assassinated on the steps of a Sadrist mosque and in May 2004, the governor shot dead another police chief (with Iranian connections) in a hospital morgue.
	www.belgraviadispatch.com /archives/004816.html (3860 words)

	School and Clinic Refurbishment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		With 460 schools in the Maysan province requiring refurbishment in order for children to fully return to their education programme, the humanitarian relief agencies have their hands full.
		Added to this, the looting the followed the cessation of conflict left many of the schools in the Maysan province in need of major repair and refurbishment.
		Working closely with the director of education, schools are identified, assessed and a programme of refurbishment developed.
	www.salvationarmyusa.org /ihq/www_sa.nsf/txt-vw-sublinks/0A8DA41894B04A5180256E0800671174?openDocument (306 words)

	War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity
		Resistance in Maysan to rule by outsiders poses problems for British troops and underscores uncertainty over Iraq's future as a viable state.
		Bellicose Shiite cleric Muqtada Sadr enjoys formidable support in Maysan, and many of the province's men traveled to Sadr's spiritual home in Najaf last summer to take up a street fight there against U.S. troops.
		Sadr loyalists also fought a series of less-publicized battles in Maysan against British soldiers with the Princess of Wales' Royal Regiment, clashes that began in April and culminated in August with a firefight at a road junction the British call Danny Boy, just north of Majar Kabir.
	www.christusrex.org /www1/news/lat-11-18-04b.html (1217 words)

	Three British Soldiers Killed In Iraq
		The soldiers from Task Force Maysan died from injuries sustained in an incident in Al Amarah early this morning, a spokesman said.
		He added that further details would not be released until the next of kin had been informed.
		Task Force Maysan is a battle group based on the 1st Battalion Staffordshire Regiment and supporting troops.
	www.rense.com /general67/thsee.htm (203 words)

	Maysan -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Maysan is one of the (Click link for more info and facts about provinces of Iraq) provinces of Iraq.
		It is in the east of the country, bordering (A theocratic islamic republic in the Middle East in western Asia; Iran was the core of the ancient empire that was known as Persia until 1935; rich in oil; involved in state-sponsored terrorism) Iran.
		Its capital is (Click link for more info and facts about Al Amarah) Al Amarah.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/m/ma/maysan.htm (77 words)

	Vanessa-Mae - VMH MEDIA - MIDI FILES, Wednesday, 02-Nov-2005 06:33:45 GMT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		MIDI File 68,4 KB Transcribed & sequenced by Maysan with Digital Orchestra Pro v3.00.37 on Nov 22th, 1998.
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	www.vanessamae.com /midi.shtml (615 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Middle East \| War 'not over' in southern Iraq
		And a "war" is exactly what the British now believe they are fighting in Maysan province, just to the north of Basra.
		It started in early April, with the dramatic increase in attacks by Shia fighters loyal to the outlawed cleric, Moqtadr Sadr - the so-called Mehdi army.
		But the truth is that there's more fighting to be done if the British are to be able to say that they truly control all of Maysan province and its people.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/middle_east/3731635.stm (967 words)

	Three UK soldiers killed in Iraq: 16.07.2005: www.vienna-prague-hotels.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The troops, from Task Force Maysan, were attacked in central Amarah early on Saturday morning, a spokesman said.
		Task Force Maysan is based at Camp Abu Naji, just outside Amarah, which has a population of about 300,000 and was the scene of explosive violence last year.
		It is a battle group featuring the 1st Battalion Staffordshire Regiment, backed by a squadron of Challenger 2s from The King's Royal Hussars, No 1 Company, Coldstream Guards and a company from the 1st Battalion, The Royal Regiment of Wales.
	www.vienna-prague-hotels.com /article-88966-en.html (296 words)

	Foreign & Commonwealth Office Travel Advice by Country (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		There is an increased risk of kidnapping in the southern provinces of Basra and Maysan.
		There is an increased threat to the security of British nationals in Basra and Maysan following the incident involving British Forces in Basra on 19 September.
		There is a continuing direct threat of kidnap to foreign nationals across Iraq and we believe that British nationals may be targeted.
	www.fco.gov.uk /servlet/Front?pagename=OpenMarket/Xcelerate/ShowPage&c=Page&cid=1007029390590&a=KCountryAdvice&aid=1013618386640 (2194 words)

	LRB \| Rory Stewart : Degrees of Not Knowing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		It was dark because there is no electricity,’ he winks: he blames me, in my old capacity as ‘deputy governorate co-ordinator’ for Maysan province, for the lack of electricity in Amara.
		In Maysan, the winning Sadr-backed party is not only in favour of requiring women to wear headscarves and banning the public sale of alcohol (neither is part of the social practices of the minority religious groups) but also quietly in favour of a government supervised by clerics.
		In thirty years Iraq may well look more like Turkey than Egypt, but it will achieve this change in a way which we, the foreigners, are in no position to understand or predict and, therefore, which we are unlikely to be able to control.
	www.lrb.co.uk /v27/n07/stew01_.html (4228 words)

	Downing Street Says...: Maysan Province
		Asked for further information about the handover of Maysan Province, the PMOS said that this was the third of the four provinces to be transferred to the Iraqis, across Iraq as a whole.
		Asked if that had implications for the UK troops, the PMOS said that it did not, because we had been in a backup role since August.
		Asked if Maysan was one of the provinces that had been discussed when the Prime Minister was last in Iraq, the PMOS confirmed that it was, and this was the working out of a policy that was known in advance.
	www.downingstreetsays.org /archives/004008.html (281 words)

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