Tag: port of basra

Of course the cable news networks is still relatively silent on this (except Olberman last night): Iraq’s prime minister on Wednesday gave gunmen in the southern oil port of Basra a three-day deadline to surrender their weapons and renounce violence as clashes between Shiite militia fighters and Iraqi security forces erupted for a second day. […]

LONDON (Reuters) – The talk of British troops pulling out of Iraq rumbles on. Britain plans to pull out nearly all its soldiers from Iraq by the summer of 2008, with the first withdrawals within weeks, a top military commander said in an interview published on Tuesday. Lieutenant General Nick Houghton, Britain’s most senior officer […]