TEHRAN (AFP) - An uprising against Iraqi President Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s regime is under way in the southern city of Basra, the main Shiite Iraqi opposition group said.
"A revolt is taking place in Basra," Mohammad Hadi, spokesman of the Iran-based Supreme Assembly for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (news - web sites) (ASRII), told AFP.
"We have no more details for the moment."
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