Iraq rocket attack on Basra base kills two

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Source: Reuters

BAGHDAD, May 8 (Reuters) - Militants fired rockets into a British forces base in Iraq's southern oil town of Basra on Thursday, killing two contractors and wounding four other civilians, the U.S. military said on Thursday.

It said British forces had returned fire and U.S. forces killed six militants behind the attack in an air strike. The statement did not give the nationalities of the contractors.

Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki ordered a crackdown on militiamen in Basra at the end of March, mostly targeting fighters loyal to anti-American Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr.

After a bungled beginning to the campaign in which Sadr's Mehdi Army fought back and scores of civilians were killed, Iraqi forces have successfully wrested control of most the city. Basra's formerly lawless streets are now largely quiet.

Read more: http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L08232553.htm

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1. Iraqi forces sounds like we are fighting an Iraqi army? How are these Iraqi forces

....anyway? Were these the people who were to throw flowers at the liberating U.S. military? Something is terribly wrong, does George W. Bush know about this?:wow:

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2. 25 killed in Iraq as rockets shatter Basra calm

BAGHDAD (AFP) - A rocket attack on a coalition military base in Basra killed two civilian contractors Friday, while a retaliatory strike and separate attacks elsewhere in Iraq killed 23 others, officials said.

The two civilian contractors died when rockets slammed into the US-led coalition's base near Basra's international airport, wounding eight others, including four coalition soldiers, the military said.

Coalition forces responded with Hellfire missiles, killing six militants, the military said.

The military did not identify the nationality of the civilian contractors or the wounded coalition soldiers.

more:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080508/wl_mideast_afp/iraqunrest_080508200534;_ylt=AlmsRP8hMYF.qILuANNlAXpX6GMA