Basra Battle between Mahdi Army and British
In apparent retaliation for the killing of their commander, Mahdi Army militiamen launched a fierce 2 and a half-hour assault on a British base in the southern Shiite city of Basra. The British military must have been alarmed by the assault, since they called in an air strike on the militiamen. Basra crowds said that the airstrike killed 8 innocent civilians and held a public funeral procession for them.
You have the sense that both politically and militarily, the British are hanging on in Basra by their fingernails.
Only 17% of Britons approve of the Iraq War.
posted by Juan Cole @ 5/26/2007 08:14:00 AM
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"One noteworthy observation about the recent arrests in Iran, including that of Haleh Esfandiary and Hossein Mousavian, and also reports about Mahmoud Sariolghalam brief detention, is that they all have close ties to Rafsanjani.
There has been enough evidence in the past few years that suggests Rafsanjani has been trying to create a network of well-connected Iranians in the U.S., with strong ties with neoliberal Americans, especially among the democrats. This network includes politicians, scholars, and businessmen."
http://hoder.com/weblog/archives/016063.shtml
Actually, according to my reading, 17 percent said they support Blair's handling of the current situation in Iraq.
Only 14 percent said they actually support the war.
Those who support the war and always have supported it, at 11 percent, are outnumbered two-to-one by those who supported war in 2003 but not today.
Only seventeen percent of the Brtish war yet British troops are still in Iraq? And GB considers itself to be a democracy? Why, because it hold elections? But what good elections if, when it comes to war or peace, those who get elected can decide for themselves and ignore the will of the people? No good, that's what, meaning that GB isn't a democracy no more, if ever it was.
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