MORE VIOLENCE IN IRAQ. BRITISH BASE IN BASRA HIT BY ROCKET ATTACK

Once again violence is on the rise in Iraq. The Iraq Defense Ministry in the fortified Green Zone was hit by a mortar attack Sunday morning, and also on Sunday rockets were fired into the British base in Basra. No reports of injuries in the Basra attack so far, but three people were killed and seven injured in the Green Zone attack in Baghdad.

British base at Basra airport rocketed

Basra - Voices of Iraq
Sunday , 08 /06 /2008 Time 3:31:28
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Basra, Jun 8, (VOI)- British forces’ base at Basra airport came under Katyusha rocket attack on Sunday morning with no reports of casualties or damage, a British spokesman said.

“The British base at Basra International Airport was attacked this morning with ten Katyusha rockets,” Captain Chris Ford told Aswat al-Iraq – Voices of Iraq- (VOI).Captain Ford added “the rockets, which were launched from an area south of Basra, left no casualties or damage.”This is the second time the British base came under attack since 25 March 2008, a day that a large-scale military operation, dubbed Charge of Knights, started in the Shiite predominantly city of Basra with the aim of hunting down “outlaws”, a term used by the Iraqi government to describe the Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr’s Mahdi Army militiamen.Basra is 590 km south of Baghdad.