British keep out of Basra's lethal Islamic take-over By Oliver Poole (Filed: 15/07/2005) The bodies of young women began to appear in Basra six weeks ago. First there was a group of three, then two, and last week the corpses of six were found, each victim riddled by gunshots and left on the street to die in pools of blood. Protesters in Basra demonstrate against government attempts to arrest supporters of Moqtada al-Sadr The Iraqi police say they have no strong leads. But it is an open secret in the port city why they died. They worked as prostitutes and...