MORTAR BOMBS HIT BRIT BASE AT BASRA

The media was all excited when it was announced the British troops would be pulling out of Basra, Iraq, but look what has happened now.


Mortars hit British base in Basra-Security source

Basra - Voices of Iraq
Wednesday , 02 /01 /2008 Time 9:02:54

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Basra, Jan 2, (VOI) - Mortars rounds hit the British base at Basra airport on Wednesday, while police arrested the killer of the police non-commissioner for northern Basra, a security source said on Wednesday. “Three mortar rounds landed in the British base at Basra airport. No further details are currently available,” a Basra security said.He added “Al-Maaqal police forces captured the station’s non-commissioner Qutaiba Aziz’s killer in Al-Maaqal.”He noted “non-commissioner Aziz was killed by unknown gunmen one month ago.” British soldiers are stationed in one base now - the Basra International Airport, 25 km northeast of Basra - after handing over the former presidential palaces, which they had used as a military base, to the Iraqi forces.The British forces in Basra, 590 km south of the Iraqi capital Baghdad, maintain a presence of 5,250 troops within the Multi-National Forces in Iraq after withdrawing 1,600 soldiers over the past few months.Britain was the United States' prime ally in the March 2003 invasion of Iraq.