Anybody have a good analysis on the situation in southern Iraq?
Did the Brits blow it with their somewhat hands off approach?
I'd like to know that to...my son is heading to Basra this summer...
I've read that Iranian intelligence agents arrived to 'stir things up' a while back. Remember when those two SAS agents were beaten and detained - they were doing counter-intelligence work against the corrupt local governmental security/police forces.
Somewhat blow it? They totally blew it.
British and American intelligence services are training and arming Iranian Arabs and Kurds who live in southern Iran and oppose the extremist regime in Tehran.