[freema]

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

[Marine_Uncle]

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.