[NYTr] Basra after the Brits: Damning Assessment of Abysmal Failure

[All the News That Doesn't Fit]

Buried in the middle of today's trivial Brit Jon Snow news report
today, with no URL, was this:

Channel 4 News - Snowmail (UK) - Dec 3, 2007
http://www.channel4.com


Basra after the Brits
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A very strong report out of the Commons Defence Select Committee on the
true state of the Basra British troops left behind. It almost certainly
adds up to the most damning assessment of the failure of the results of
the British war effort in southern Iraq. Alex Thompson is on the case
together with an account of the appalling difficulties British
translators in Iraq are having in securing safe passage to Britain. 


READ/See it here: [a video link is at this URL]

http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/politics/domestic_politics/basra+after+the+brits/1136452

OR: http://tinyurl.com/23rln9

Basra after the Brits

By: Alex Thomson

A group of MPs has questioned whether Britain's aim of establishing
security in Basra has been left unfulfilled.

A Defence Select Committee report paints a bleak picture of a city
under the grip of militias with a police force that can't always be
trusted.