The British Military, in particular the "Desert Rats", had
moved right up
to the edge of Basra in their siege of this southern Iraqi city. Overnight,
they had taken a key point on the southern edge of the school, the
Basra Technical School. Until this point, Pro-Saddam militia were
using this as one of many points from which they were firing RPG's
and mortar rounds at the British. The British military moved in to
this school to set up a base there. On the outside perimeter of the
school, dead Iraqi corpses lay with RPG launchers and RPG's strewn
all over around them. They were killed while fighting the British
forces on the edge of the city. Late in the afternoon one day, several
people, who appeared to be relatives, came to recover the body of
one of the Iraqi fighters. Aside from the men that came to claim his
body, an elder woman was present, and judging from her emotion and
intense
interest in the recovery of the body, one could assume it was a family
member of the dead soldier.
