Quotes About Basra

Tipu even asked his ambassadors to Ottoman Istanbul to secure for him the ijara – farm – of Basra so that, like the Europeans, he could establish an overseas settlement which would be a base for his vessels.

'Basra' is high on content, but a good dose of action sequences will make it edgy and pretty dark as well.

Now what do you get in the Army? Bad helmets and Basra. Your guns don't work and everyone hates you when you come back.

By the end of 2008, clearly, the al Qaeda and Sunni insurgency had been relatively stabilized. And in the al Qaeda's mind, they were defeated. They actually said that in many of their transmissions that we were able to pick up. And the Shia militia, largely those trained by the Iranians in Basra and also in Sadr City, had been defeated.