The Command Post - A Warblog Collective 08:56 PM | Lots of fighting around Basra
Strangely enough, some of it is Iraqi against Iraqi.
This Telegraph piece has lots of interesting information about fighting near Basra. The one element that was new to me was this.
But the fighting in southern Iraq has not been restricted to British and Iraqi forces.
Militia groups have been out to settle old scores after equipping themselves from raiding Iraqi arms dumps.
Near the town of Mushrif, a squadron of the Queens Dragoon Guards intervened to stop a firefight between two groups, one of which appeared to be local Ba'ath Party members.
The fighting had left one man with a gunshot injury to his head lying in a pool of blood, and another with a bullet wound in his leg, beside him an AK-47 rifle.
"We are here to protect the oil refinery," the injured man said, although his van, loaded up with canisters seemed to suggest otherwise.
Strangely enough, some of it is Iraqi against Iraqi.
This Telegraph piece has lots of interesting information about fighting near Basra. The one element that was new to me was this.
But the fighting in southern Iraq has not been restricted to British and Iraqi forces.
Militia groups have been out to settle old scores after equipping themselves from raiding Iraqi arms dumps.
Near the town of Mushrif, a squadron of the Queens Dragoon Guards intervened to stop a firefight between two groups, one of which appeared to be local Ba'ath Party members.
The fighting had left one man with a gunshot injury to his head lying in a pool of blood, and another with a bullet wound in his leg, beside him an AK-47 rifle.
"We are here to protect the oil refinery," the injured man said, although his van, loaded up with canisters seemed to suggest otherwise.
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