The mystery of the bombers targeting Iraqi Shiites has been solved!
Chossudovsky is correct. Bombers are British undercover agents inciting
civil war and attempting to fracture the Iraqi resistance.
UK denies storming Iraqi jail to free soldiers
British forces have freed two undercover soldiers from jail in Basra
after a day of rioting in the Iraqi city that was sparked when the
soldiers fired on a police patrol.
An Iraqi Interior Ministry official says British forces stormed the jail
using six tanks and that dozens of Iraqi prisoners escaped during the
raid.
But Britain's Ministry of Defence says the release of the two soldiers
had been negotiated and it did not believe the prison had been stormed.
"We've heard nothing to suggest we stormed the prison," a ministry
spokesman said.
"We understand there were negotiations."
Lisa Glover, spokeswoman for the British embassy in Baghdad, says three
people have been wounded in the operation to free the soldiers.
She did not give further details of how the soldiers were freed.
The events in the mainly Shiite city are likely to worsen relations
between British forces responsible for security in southern Iraq and the
local population.
Police and local officials say the two undercover soldiers were arrested
after opening fire on Iraqi police who approached them.
They say the men were wearing traditional Arab headscarves and sitting
in an unmarked car.
"They were driving a civilian car and were dressed in civilian clothes
when shooting took place between them and Iraqi patrols," an official in
Basra said.
Mohammed al-Abadi, an official in the Basra governorate, says the two
men looked suspicious to police.
"A policeman approached them and then one of these guys fired at him.
Then the police managed to capture them," Mr Abadi said.
"They refused to say what their mission was. They said they were British
soldiers and (suggested) to ask their commander about their mission."
Tank ablaze
Furious crowds pelted British armoured vehicles with rocks and petrol
bombs after the shooting incident.
A British soldier was engulfed in flames as he scrambled out of a
burning tank during the rioting.
He was pelted with stones by the crowd.
The tank tried to reverse away from trouble after it was attacked by
Iraqis flinging petrol bombs, burning furniture and tyres.
Iraqis had driven through the streets with loudhailers demanding that
the undercover Britons remain in jail.
Basra, capital of the Shiite south, has been relatively stable compared
with central Iraq, where Sunni Arab insurgents have killed thousands of
Iraqi and US troops, officials and civilians with suicide attacks,
roadside bombs and shootings.
But relations remain tense between the British military and some local
groups.
British Defence Secretary John Reid confirms in a statement that the two
undercover soldiers are back with British forces, but sheds no light on
their mission or how they were released.
"The situation in Basra is currently calmer after a day of
disturbances," he said.
"At this stage it is not possible to be certain why these disturbances
began."
The main ally of the United States, Britain said on Sunday it would if
necessary increase the number of troops in Iraq, where it has about
8,500 soldiers.
- Reuters
In other developments:
Iraqi Shiite pilgrims have descended on the holy city of Karbala in
their hundreds of thousands, as they prepare to celebrate a religious
festival under a threat of war declared by Sunni Arab radicals. (Full
Story)
An Iraqi court has sentenced a nephew of toppled president Saddam
Hussein to life in prison, on charges of financing insurgents and
possession of bombs. (Full Story)
Al Qaeda's wing in Iraq says it will not attack Shiite groups, including
that of maverick cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, which have opposed US and Iraqi
military operations in northern Iraq. (Full Story)
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200509/s1463925.htm
And, Chossudovsky's companion piece about "Al-CIA-duh" in Iraq:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=CHO20050918&articleId=967
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