Tuesday, September 20, 2005

So is it all quiet outside of the Sunni triangle? U.K. "Cabinet members yesterday admitted that signs of the breakdown of law and order in British-controlled southern Iraq will place extra pressure on Tony Blair ahead of next week's Labour party conference. Ministers familiar with Iraq suggested it was a worrying development that the Iraqi government in Baghdad had not had the de facto political authority to force the police in Basra to free the two SAS men. "We don't seem to be building a nation," one cabinet aide said."