While everyone is focusing on the U.S. led surge in Baghdad, Iraq's second largest city Basra--a city that the British army were supposed to be pacifying -- has been going down the tubes. That may well be the fate of Baghdad and much of the rest of Iraq as well, warns a report just issued by the International Crisis Group. It's a report that should be must reading for anyone attempting to decipher where Iraq is heading.
Basra is Iraq's economic...
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