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Iraq - British to evacuate consulate in Basra after mortar attacks
Daily Telegraph (UK) (excerpt) ^ | October 30, 2006 | Thomas Harding

Posted on 10/29/2006 7:32:27 PM PST by HAL9000

Excerpt -

The British consulate in Basra will evacuate its heavily defended building in the next 24 hours over concerns for the safety of its staff.

Despite a large British military presence at the headquarters in Basra Palace, a private security assessment has advised the consul general and her staff to leave the building after experiencing regular mortar attacks in the last two months.

The move will be seen as a huge blow to progress in Iraq and has infuriated senior military commanders. They say it sends a message to the insurgents that they are winning the battle in pushing the British out of the southern Iraqi capital, where several British soldiers have died and dozens have been injured.

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(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: basra; iraq
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To: bnelson44; 2111USMC; 2nd Bn, 11th Mar; 68 grunt; A.A. Cunningham; ASOC; AirForceBrat23; Ajnin; ...

USMC ping to the Army. Must see: bnelson's link.


21 posted on 10/31/2006 3:07:11 AM PST by freema (Marine FRiend, 1stCuz2xRemoved, Mom, Aunt, Sister, Friend, Wife, Daughter, Niece)
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To: lp boonie

He is another one percenter libertarian.

Not that I don't like him, but if one truly believes that Bush invaded Iraq because of a plot to kill dad, then...well, nuff said.


22 posted on 10/31/2006 3:07:28 AM PST by bill1952 ("All that we do is done with an eye towards something else.")
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To: gcruse
"Maybe if Saddam had tried to kill Blair's daddy the Brits be more willing to bankrupt themselves forcing democracy onto people who don't want it."

Oh yea, our economy’s bankrupt and falling apart. Your insight into Bush’s character is as brain dead as your perception of economics.

23 posted on 10/31/2006 4:03:02 AM PST by elfman2 (An army of amateurs doing the media's job.)
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To: HAL9000

and this guy trying best he can to appease that POS cleric Sadar



BAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraq's Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki on Tuesday ordered the lifting of joint U.S.-Iraqi military checkpoints around the Shiite militant stronghold of Sadr City — another apparent move to assert his authority with the Americans and appeal to his Shiite support base.

All barricades and checkpoints around Sadr City and elsewhere in Baghdad must be lifted by 5 p.m., al-Maliki said in an order issued in his capacity both as prime minister and commander of the Iraqi armed forces.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,226357,00.html


24 posted on 10/31/2006 4:26:14 AM PST by sure_fine (*not one to over kill the thought process*)
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To: TomasUSMC
Plan B should have been started on 9/12. THEN, they would have been more interested in plan A.

Had Plan B been used; this war in the middle east would be finished by now and we would have a whole lot less dead on our side. As it is now, we will lose more people and the war will still not be won. I certainly do not understand our strategy. We can win this war in thirty days or less, if we have a mind to do so. So what are we afraid of.....?

25 posted on 10/31/2006 5:08:54 AM PST by From One - Many (Trust the Old Media At Your Own Risk)
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To: From One - Many

Afraid of? Simple:
(1) the Democrats.
(2) see (1).


26 posted on 10/31/2006 6:40:48 AM PST by OldArmy52 (China & India: Doing jobs Americans don't want to do (manuf., engineering, accounting, etc))
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To: freema
What is not dicussed are the Brits plans to perhaps go after those that are lobbing the mortar shells into the compound.
I do hope they start to take a more aggressive approach to the over all situation that has been brewing in southern Iraq for a few years. They do not have adequate forces in place for one thing, and they had farted around entirely to much with marginal dangerouse groups associated with both the Badr brigade and the Mahdi army.
Diplomacy only goes so far in this type scenario.
27 posted on 10/31/2006 8:34:44 AM PST by Marine_Uncle (Honor must be earned)
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To: HAL9000

...a private security assessment has advised the consul general and her staff to leave the building...



Yeah, they had ACME Security come in and do an assessment. They got skerred at the first boom, crapped their shorts, and said we gotta get the #(*& outta here!

They should have relied on the MILITARY assessment. Sandbag the roofs, and sit tight.


28 posted on 10/31/2006 1:20:10 PM PST by SFC Chromey (We are at war with Islamofascists, now ACT LIKE IT!)
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To: From One - Many

We can win this war in thirty days or less, if we have a mind to do so. So what are we afraid of.....?

====
EX ACT LEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!


29 posted on 10/31/2006 4:45:13 PM PST by TomasUSMC ( FIGHT LIKE WW2, FINISH LIKE WW2. FIGHT LIKE NAM, FINISH LIKE NAM)
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To: Marine_Uncle

As does farting.

There I was, reading another of your great analysis and you throw in 'farting'?! I'm absolutely cracking up!

Can't quit chuckling. : )


30 posted on 10/31/2006 6:34:59 PM PST by freema (Marine FRiend, 1stCuz2xRemoved, Mom, Aunt, Sister, Friend, Wife, Daughter, Niece)
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To: freema

Mom. Glad I made you laugh. Sometimes we get so absorbed in the details of often sad things, we forget humor should be introduced upon occasions where warranted.


31 posted on 10/31/2006 9:02:28 PM PST by Marine_Uncle (Honor must be earned)
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To: HAL9000

So... instead of establishing a 'no man's land' around the consulate that is greater than the range of the mortars, the British decide to evacuate the consulate?

Yeah, that'll ensure the terrorists learn the right lesson... that lobbing mortars will drive out the 'invaders'.

Whereas the other option would ensure that the terrorist learn that lobbing mortars would... hurt their fellow countrymen while not affecting the 'invaders' at all.

Hmmm...


32 posted on 11/01/2006 11:19:42 PM PST by gogogodzilla (I criticize everyone... and then breathe some radioactive fire and stomp on things.)
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