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Khor Az Zubayr power passes to Ministry of Electricity By Suzanne M. Fournier Gulf Region Southern District U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Photo by Gulf Region Division) Base Camp Adder (Ali Base) Iraq – Today, the Khor Az Zubayr Power Plant is officially operating under the Ministry of Electricity and providing 250 additional mega watts of power generation to the Iraqi national power grid. Construction started at the power plant in December of 2004 and completed on schedule one year later. Training for plant operators concluded in March at the facility, located 20 to 25 kilometers south of Basrah....

GULF WAR II: Brit support grows for conflict + Officer reveals brutality LT COL TIM COLLINS: Reveals his battle to lift Iraq's shadow of tyrannyTO THE RESCUE: US marine carries tot to safety after Iraqis fire on civiliansTO LOVING CARE: Forces doc cradles tot A SMILING teenage girl who waved at patrolling British soldiers and accepted a big-hearted squaddie's gift of chocolate was HANGED by agents of Saddam. The butchers of the dictator's corrupt Ba'ath party had spied on the Muslim youngster from an alleyway in Az Zubayr near Basra. Battle-hardened troops of the 1st Batallion, The Royal Irish Regiment...

Terrorists behind the September 11 attacks on New York are thought to be fighting alongside Iraqi forces. Captured Iraqi soldiers have told British interrogators that members of al-Qaeda are in the town of Az Zubayr co-ordinating grenade and gun attacks on coalition positions. It is believed British forces are preparing a military strike on the base where the terrorists belonging to Osama bin Laden's network are understood to be holed up. A senior British military source said: "The information we have received from PoWs is that an al-Qaeda cell may be operating in Az Zubayr. "There are possibly around a...

Captured Iraqi soldiers have told British military interrogators that members of Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida terror network are fighting alongside Saddam Hussein's forces against U.S. and British troops near Basra. Specifically, the Iraqi POWs claim that about a dozen al-Qaida members are in the town of Az Zubayr, coordinating grenade and other attacks on coalition positions, according to a Scotsman report carried in several papers, including London's Financial Times.