{"id":843,"date":"2007-08-07T06:22:37","date_gmt":"2007-08-07T06:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.briangreene.com\/bhg\/2007\/local-militias-fight-over-oil-in-basra-as-british-troops-leave\/"},"modified":"2007-08-07T06:22:37","modified_gmt":"2007-08-07T06:22:37","slug":"local-militias-fight-over-oil-in-basra-as-british-troops-leave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/2007\/local-militias-fight-over-oil-in-basra-as-british-troops-leave\/","title":{"rendered":"Local militias fight over oil in Basra as British troops leave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.briangreene.com\/mar22\/feb15-1-175.jpg\" align=\"right\" \/>from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/08\/06\/AR2007080601401.html?blog\">washington post<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 40px\">&#8220;The British have basically been defeated in the south,&#8221; a senior U.S. intelligence official said recently in Baghdad. They are abandoning their former headquarters at Basra Palace, where a recent official visitor from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/ac2\/related\/topic\/London?tid=informline\">London<\/a> described them as &#8220;surrounded like cowboys and Indians&#8221; by militia fighters. An airport base outside the city, where a regional U.S. Embassy office and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-srv\/world\/countries\/greatbritain.html?nav=el\">Britain&#8217;s<\/a> remaining 5,500 troops are barricaded behind building-high sandbags, has been attacked with mortars or rockets nearly 600 times over the past four months.<\/p>\n<p> bhg &#8211; no comment<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.briangreene.com\/july15\/mini-AL%20ARABIYA%20-%20July%2015%2019%2034%2033.bmp.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from washington post &#8220;The British have basically been defeated in the south,&#8221; a senior U.S. intelligence official said recently in Baghdad. They are abandoning their former headquarters at Basra Palace, where a recent official visitor from London described them as &#8220;surrounded like cowboys and Indians&#8221; by militia fighters. An airport base outside the city, where&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/2007\/local-militias-fight-over-oil-in-basra-as-british-troops-leave\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Local militias fight over oil in Basra as British troops leave<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-news","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}