British base in Basra, #Iraq under mortar attack in 2004 & an operation to catch the mortar-team.
Channel: Hugh Sykes
Date: 2023-04-16

An intelligence tip-off about a possible address for the leader of a mortar team who attacked a British army base in Basra leads British forces to a cinder-block home with a mother, father and three small children (one aged three weeks) in one of the most impoverished parts of the southern Iraqi city where many families were homeless and living rough in an abandoned Iraqi army camp.