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Titolo: UK has left behind murder and chaos, says Basra police chief

UK has left behind murder and chaos, says Basra police chief
Blunt assessment delivered as British hand over security to Iraqis 
(Warning: The film below contains graphic images which some viewers may
find distressing) 
Mona Mahmoud, Maggie O'Kane and Ian Black
Monday December 17, 2007
The full scale of the chaos left behind by British forces in Basra was
revealed yesterday as the city's police chief described a province in the
grip of well-armed militias strong enough to overpower security forces and
brutal enough to behead women considered not sufficiently Islamic.
As British forces finally handed over security in Basra province, marking
the end of 4½ years of control in southern Iraq, Major General Jalil
Khalaf, the new police commander, said the occupation had left him with a
situation close to mayhem. "They left me militia, they left me gangsters,
and they left me all the troubles in the world," he said in an interview
for Guardian Films and ITV.
Khalaf painted a very different picture from that of British officials
who, while acknowledging problems in southern Iraq, said yesterday's
handover at Basra airbase was timely and appropriate.
Major General Graham Binns, who led British troops into the city in 2003,
said the province had "begun to regain its strength". He added: "I came to
rid Basra of its enemies and I now formally hand Basra back to its
friends."
But in the film, to be broadcast on the Guardian Unlimited website and ITV
News, Khalaf lists a catalogue of failings, saying:
· Basra has become so lawless that in the last three months 45 women have
been killed for being "immoral" because they were not fully covered or
because they may have given birth outside wedlock;
· The British unintentionally rearmed Shia militias by failing to
recognise that Iraqi troops were loyal to more than one authority;
· Shia militia are better armed than his men and control Iraq's main port.
In the interview he said the main problem the Iraqi security forces now
faced was the struggle to wrest control back from the militia. He appealed
for the British to help him do that: "We need the British to help us to
watch our borders - both sea and land and we need their intelligence and
air support and to keep training the Iraqi police."
David Miliband, the foreign secretary, who attended the handover ceremony,
acknowledged that the territory was not "a land of milk and honey" and
promised Britain would remain a "committed friend" of Iraq.
But he insisted it was the right time to hand back control. "The key
conditions for the transfer of security responsibility to the Iraqi
security forces are whether they are up to it: do they have the numbers?
Do they have the leadership and training to provide leadership for this
province? And the answer to those three questions is yes," he said.
After the handover Des Browne, the defence secretary, praised British
forces - 174 of whom have died since the start of the war in March 2003.
"Their contribution has been outstanding and their courage inspiring," he
said. A scaled-down UK force will remain in a single base at Basra
airport, with a small training mission and a rapid reaction team on
"overwatch".
Britain now has 4,500 troops in Iraq. The prime minister, Gordon Brown,
has said numbers would shrink to 2,500 by mid-2008 though those released
may be redeployed to Afghanistan.
Khalaf, who has survived 20 assassination attempts since he became police
chief six months ago, said Britain's intentions had been good but
misguided. "I don't think the British meant for this mess to happen. When
they disbanded the Iraqi police and military after Saddam fell the people
they put in their place were not loyal to the Iraqi government. The
British trained and armed these people in the extremist groups and now we
are faced with a situation where these police are loyal to their parties
not their country."
He said the most shocking aspect of the breakdown of law and order in
Basra was the murder of women for being unIslamic. "They are being killed
because they are accused of behaving in an immoral way. When they kill
them they put underwear and indecent clothes on them."
In his office Khalaf showed the Guardian a computer holding the files of
48 unidentified women. "Some of them have even been killed with their
children because their killer says that they come out of an adulterous
relationship," he said.
Vince Cable, the acting Lib Dem leader, called for a timetable to bring
all British troops home from Iraq, adding: "If we are handing power back
to the Iraqis, why are 4,500 British troops needed for what is essentially
a training mission?"
· The General's Last Stand: a Guardianfilms/ITV News investigation can be
seen now on the Guardian website and later tonight on ITV News at 6.30pm
and 10.30pm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,2228690,00.html
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 piu'
non di fare di più, di fare l'esatto contrario di quello che hanno
fatto fino ad ora, cioè non addestrate la polizia e dare armi alla
gente sbagliata...ergo fino ad ora i britannici hanno sbagliato tutto,
zappatore zoppo....LOL

 Povero idiota: ci sono delle cose che gli occidentali non possono fare.
però questo potete farlo, eh?
http://www.venceremos.it/mondocane/2005/22settembre05.htm

 
http://www.venceremos.it/mondocane/2005/22settembre05.htm
Fulvio Grimaldi? Ma rotfl.
Tb
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 Fulvio Grimaldi? Ma rotfl.
lascia perdere la fonte...adesso ho trovato solo quella, ma la storia
è come la racconta lui, verifica pure...

 è come la racconta lui, verifica pure...
Me la ricordo. Era una puttanata grandiosa, dai.
Tb
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 Me la ricordo. Era una puttanata grandiosa, dai.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4271234.stm

 conclusione da far rizzare i capelli
ho già detto...lascia perdere la fonte che è quello che è, è la
notizia che conta....