The Middle-East expert at Warwick University (whose name I didn't catch) has just been speaking on BBC Radio 4. It is his opinion that the fierce resistance that Iraqis in and around Basra augurs badly for the prospects of a quick victory. He thinks that these southern groups of Iraqis are not fighting under the control of Saddam, but under their own volition out of a sense of nationalism. The situation will be far worse when the Americans will try to take Baghdad. Even when Saddam is defeated, the expert believes that American forces might be fighting such groups all over Iraq for years to come.
(This rather agrees with my recent prognostications that when the two heavy armour Divisions arrive in Iraq the Americans will easily establish total occupation of the oil "lozenge" [the Tigris valley] but will not bother overmuch about the rest of the country even though they will make some feeble efforts at establishing a "democratic" government in Baghdad.) Keith Hudson ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------ Keith Hudson, General Editor, Handlo Music, http://www.handlo.com 6 Upper Camden Place, Bath BA1 5HX, England Tel: +44 1225 312622; Fax: +44 1225 447727; mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://scribe.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
