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British leave and Basra becomes a war zone.(QuickQuotes)(Brief article)
"It's hard now to paint Basra as a success story. The British have basically been defeated in the South." The British sent 40,000 troops into the war against Iraq, and they occupied the area around the southern city of Basra. As recently as February of this year, Vice President Cheney ...
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