Tuesday, December 18, 2007

Iraq: The calm before the storm?

The British forces have finally handed over control to the locals in Iraq's Basra and some British papers are cautiously optimistic. But their legacy after four and a half years in this southern province is less than impressive to the new police commander, Jalil Khalaf.
"They left me militia, they left me gangsters, and they left me all the troubles in the world," Khalif complains in a film by Britain's Guardian Films and ITV News, which can be viewed on the Observer website.

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