How To Use Basra In A Sentence
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Today, I'm told, the people of Basra whisper and mumble about the intifada, but only among family members at home or in tearooms with their most intimate friends.
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Leaning heavily to port, the 200 ft Al Mansur was at the whim of the tide, bobbing around the main dock of Basra surrounded by an ugly puddle of diesel oil, its Iraqi flag hanging limp and torn at its sternpost.
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At the bottom end of Mesopotamia, the cradle of Western civilization, the Shatt takes in the water from the Tigris and Euphrates rivers and flows southward from Basra to the Persian Gulf.
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British diplomatic sources said the feuds in Basra would not be resolved until provincial council elections were held.
Times, Sunday Times
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Shortly after the invasion of Iraq, teams of minesweeping dolphins cleared the approaches to Iraqi ports in the Persian Gulf, allowing ships with humanitarian aid to reach the Iraqi city of Basra.
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And, while the "frightened fifteen", clutching their "lucky bags" revel in the warm embrace of their mummies and daddies, and sundry other "loved ones", the redtop has made it clear it sees a link between the bomb in Basra and what it calls the "Tehran tyrant".
Archive 2007-04-01
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Scenario: The Iraqi city of Basra suffers from severe gasoline shortages.
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He was also alleged to have used an agent in Basra who touted for business after the Iraq war.
Times, Sunday Times
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Pre-war, there was a strong whiff of wishful thinking in the coalition's plans for Basra.
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The British southeast area of responsibility will be confined to Basra.
Times, Sunday Times
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British diplomatic sources said the feuds in Basra would not be resolved until provincial council elections were held.
Times, Sunday Times
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Two in a hundred children in Basra are now being born with birth defects.
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A NI posting has been, in recent years, a doddle for most squaddies, especially when the alternative, the alternation is a spell in Basra or Helmand.
Pathetic army excuse about base security does nothing to answer the questions
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Which means I basically spend my free time in Basra languishing in the hotel, smoking narghiles and ordering yet another delicious meal of lamb kabobs.
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Basra's water authority is constructing 12 small purification units that will eventually produce 25 cubic meters of clean water every hour.
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For Basrah has the most malarial air, the most choleraic water, and the most infernal climate of any spot in the world outside 'Tophet.'
With a Highland Regiment in Mesopotamia 1916—1917
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But the two men sounded a cautious note over a swift withdrawal of British servicemen and women from the southern city of Basra.
The Sun
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Iraqi officials say fighting today between government security forces and Shiite militias in the city of Basra has killed at least 12 people and wounded more than 18.
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The draining of the marsh Arabs' swamps and the forcing of them into Basra slums were planned out in those buildings.
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Iraqi security forces and Shi'ite militias fought fierce gun battles on the streets of Basra after Iraqi troops launched a pre-dawn offensive to crack down on armed groups in the southern city.
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The officials said Iraqi troops rescued Richard Butler in a raid in Basra today.
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He was also alleged to have used an agent in Basra who touted for business after the Iraq war.
Times, Sunday Times
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British troops clash with irregular forces during a raid in Basra.
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The congregation in Basra is doing better and meets regularly now.
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CHARLES BURBRIDGE, SPOKESMAN, MULTINATIONAL FORCES BASRA: Well, it's a serious incident developed since the last the last 36 hours in the town of Amara, which is not a particularly large place.
CNN Transcript Oct 20, 2006
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Iraqi official say fighting today between government security forces and Shiite militias in the city of Basra has killed at least 12 people and wounded more than 16.
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When the Iraqi government took over formal control of Basra Province from the British military on Sunday, the Americans put out a congratulatory and supportive press release.
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A military headquarters in Basra city was mortared on October 8, injuring three soldiers.
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A NI posting has been, in recent years, a doddle for most squaddies, especially when the alternative, the alternation is a spell in Basra or Helmand.
Pathetic army excuse about base security does nothing to answer the questions
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To be sure, the Kagans still overblow the political progress made by the Maliki government and oversimplify the intraShi'ite power struggle -- and are blithely innocent about the role of the Iranians in calming things down in Basra and Sadr city, but they are right about one important thing: the military situation in Iraq has improved so much that normally sober and pessimistic military and intelligence sorts are simply stunned.
Progress in Iraq…and What To Do About It - Swampland - TIME.com
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In Basra, satellite dishes have sprung up on many homes, there are luxury cars on the roads and ordinary people now carry mobile phones.
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McInerney also asserted during the same episode that invading Iraq and overthrowing Saddam would actually improve public opinion of America in the Arab world, and predicted that the "jubilation in Mosul, Basra, and Baghdad" after the invasion "will silen [ce] the Arab street.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Brendan DeMelle: Unearthed: News of the Week the Mainstream Media Forgot to Report
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It flows southeastward for 120 mi (193 km) and passes the Iraqi port of Basra and the Iranian port of Abadan before emptying into the Persian Gulf.
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And so Basrans toil in the blazing heat of the Arabian Gulf, waiting for fate, kismet, providence, grace - or perhaps the more earthly mechanism of globalization - to inspire them to reclaim their former greatness.
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It's 6am and Basra is burning, black clouds of oily smoke drifting over the city to the east, the sound of gunfire rolling across the canal.
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About a dozen anti-war protesters shouted "terrorists" and held placards saying "Anglian soldiers go to hell" and "butchers of Basra" as soldiers from the 2nd Battalion The Royal Anglian Regiment, known as the Poachers, paraded through Luton town centre at midday yesterday.
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Mr Joyce has just returned from Basra where he was able to take dozens of helmets, tunics, leggings and boots to the under-privileged men.
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The Basra provincial council should not let itself remain swept up in a spurious frenzy.
Times, Sunday Times
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Christians in Basra are also grieving the loss of one of their number.
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Lt.Gen. Lloyd Austin attributed the decline mainly to efforts by Iraqi forces to choke off radical elements of Shiite militias in the southern cities of Basra and Amarah.
Iraq: Bombs kill 14
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It isn't easy living on the Al Basra oil terminal.
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U.S. Ambassador Ryan Crocker said that despite a "boatload" of problems with the Basra operation, he was encouraged that the S.iite-led government was finally confronting extremists regardless of their religious affiliation.
World Watch
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In Basra they have found the bombs that were used had enriched uranium in them - neptunium.
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When the Iraqi government took over formal control of Basra Province from the British military on Sunday, the Americans put out a congratulatory and supportive press release.
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Basrah and the site of old Kufah near Kerbela; the well known visitation place in Babylonian Irak.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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This, for instance, is how Darius describes the foundation of the sea-green palace of Susa, across the border north-east of Basra.
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They will be joining nearly 150 Territorial Army gunners from across the country to form 220 Battery which is being sent to guard the Shaibah Logistics Base, eight kilometres south-west of Basra.
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Already, members of the Da'wa Party, many of whom were taught in Iran, have taken over mosques in Basra, and members of Hezbollah have heavily infiltrated the Shi'ite population, in addition to Iranian intelligence and members of the Pasdaran-i-Inqalab Iran's Revolutionary Guards to pave the way for vilayet-e-faqih.
THE NEWS BLOG
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Last week, gunmen kidnapped and then freed a British journalist in the southern city of Basra.
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In Basrah, Red Cross instructor was conducting mine and unexploded ordnance awareness activities with schoolchildren.
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Armed forces are counter-attacking at every point of the 200-mile stretch from the north of Najaf to Basra in the south.
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Scenario: The Iraqi city of Basra suffers from severe gasoline shortages.
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Armed forces are counter-attacking at every point of the 200-mile stretch from the north of Najaf to Basra in the south.
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He was also alleged to have used an agent in Basra who touted for business after the Iraq war.
Times, Sunday Times
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Vinny and Neil managed to meet in Iraq around three weeks ago while both were stationed in Basra.
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The First Battalion of the Black Watch is based in the British sector of southern Iraq, near Basra.
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In Basrah, Red Cross instructor was conducting mine and unexploded ordnance awareness activities with schoolchildren.
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American marines defeated Iraqi forces in a battle on the outskirts of Basra.
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He was also alleged to have used an agent in Basra who touted for business after the Iraq war.
Times, Sunday Times
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Raging street battles began Tuesday in Basra after the government led a crackdown on what it calls outlaw or rogue militants.
CNN Transcript Mar 30, 2008
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The cooking of Basra has had considerable influence on that of the Persian Gulf.
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More recently, he was involved in escorting workers for reconstruction projects in Basra province.
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The Basra provincial council should not let itself remain swept up in a spurious frenzy.
Times, Sunday Times
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He was also alleged to have used an agent in Basra who touted for business after the Iraq war.
Times, Sunday Times
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They're staying in their base in Basra in a so-called overwatch position, ready to move back in if things start to go wrong.
CNN Transcript Dec 17, 2007
