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Archive for September 20th, 2005

Tuesday, September 20th, 2005

Vast and Trunkless Legs of Stone

After yesterday’s incidents in Basra, even the Telegraph reports that
This summer, soldiers were able to patrol the city in relative safety. But security has deteriorated so badly that the Army has switched from lightly armed Land Rovers to the tank-like Warriors.
Although British troops and Iraqi security forces supposedly work together, in Basra the relationship has [...]