Basra attacks down 90% since British troops left
So much for their theory that pulling out would leave chaos in its wake . . .
Friday November 16 2007 - The British army says violence in Basra has fallen by 90% since it withdrew from the southern Iraqi city earlier this year.Around 500 British soldiers left one of Saddam Hussein's palaces in the heart of the city in early September and stopped conducting regular foot patrols.
A spokesman says the Iraqi security forces still come under attack from militants in Basra, but the overall level of violence is down 90% since the British troops left.
Britain is scheduled to return control of Basra province to Iraqi officials next month, officially ending Britain's combat role in Iraq.
It's time for US to follow suit!
"Two Undercover Agents Rescued by British in Basra May Have Been Israelis "
You have two SAS undercover agents, disguised as Mehdi army, roaming around Basra, during a religious festival, with a car wired as a massive car bomb. They were stopped at a checkpoint, and if they were really SAS, all they needed to do was show an ID.
Something happened, and they decided to try an escape. They killed two policeman, were involved in a firefight, and captured.
The British and Americans installed these police, so what made this event escalate to a battle? Why shootouts at checkpoints, two assaults on police stations, arrest warrants, and numerous versions of what really happened.
Everything points to these 'SAS' as being Israeli commandos, and the Mossad was petrified they would talk. British now say they can't find the operatives.
Basra
Mounting evidence indicates that the ‘Salvador Option’ mooted for Iraq is already proceeding at full throttle From 2005 article
On 8 January this year, Newsweek published an article that claimed the US government was considering a ‘Salvador Option’ to combat the insurgency in Iraq (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6802629/site/newsweek/ ). The Salvador Option is a reference to the military assistance programme of the 1980s, initiated under Jimmy Carter and subsequently pursued by the Reagan administration, in which the US trained and materially supported the Salvadoran military in its counter-insurgency campaign against popularly supported FMLN guerrillas. The Newsweek article was widely cited in the mainstream media but the allegations were rapidly dismissed by Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld. Though the reports mentioned human-rights violations, they generally made little of the fact that it was the very units that US military advisors had instructed that were frequently responsible for the most unspeakable crimes* and that there was at times a clear correlation between fresh bouts of training and subsequent atrocities (see Noam Chomsky, ‘The Crucifixion of El Salvador’, http://www.zmag.org/chomsky/sam/sam-2-02.html ).
Global Research
And that is why the level of violence is down in Basra. US, British, and Israeli government backed goon squads, specifically sent to Iraq to spread mayhem, sow fear and distrust thru murder and wanton violence, have been pulled out.
People say the Bushies never had a plan for post war Iraq. BS. They've had a plan since the invasion and that plan was to get the Iraqi's fighting between one another and to use their goon squads to ramp up the level of violence until it spiraled out of control.
That way, the Ocuupation Army of the West would have an excuse to keep troops stationed in Iraq until the level of violence dropped.
Which would be about the same time the oil ran out.
It takes two parties to fight, and when one of them withdraws that is normally it! End of hostilities!
The Coalition of the Willing was pretty close to being welcomed with flowers by the Iraqis, but their mission was not to topple Sadam Hussein, it was not even to steal oil (a simple calculation will show that it is much cheaper to buy it at the petrol station like normal, honest people) it was to divide Iraq into three parts or more. That was an old Israeli dream that the Coalition of the Willing (to obey Israel) had to accomplish.
You cannot divide a country that without hostilities, and when the Iraqis refused to be hostile the Coalition of the Willing had to instigate the hostilities themselves. You remember the British soldiers dressed up like Arabs and shooting from a car rigged to be used later as a car bomb.
I am not impressed with the 90% reduction of hostilities, I am impressed that it has been possible to maintain a full 10% hostilities using locals to do the job.