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.


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