Holiday in Basra anyone?

Meekon · Post by **Meekon** » Mon 28 Jun, 2004 3:13 pm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/f ... 840401.stm

Cobalt · Post by **Cobalt** » Mon 28 Jun, 2004 4:28 pm

I was thinking about it earlier in the year but decided against it. If I was to go anywhere in Iraq it would be up north with the Kurds.

Spannerman · Post by **Spannerman** » Mon 28 Jun, 2004 7:05 pm

1958 Basrah and Shaibah were grot holes, I'll bet that in 2004 it ain't changed much for the better, except maybe the road out!

minimac · Post by **minimac** » Mon 28 Jun, 2004 7:15 pm

Whats the nightlife like?

. I hear that the 'fireworks' are fantastic

MM

Spannerman · Post by **Spannerman** » Mon 28 Jun, 2004 8:04 pm

Not like Downtown Baggers for fireworks, Shock and Awe stuff there, it occasionally lights up the night sky

chrisfow · Post by **chrisfow** » Thu 01 Jul, 2004 11:13 am

I think I'll go out there with a few hundred pounds and build a palace! Land must be well cheap and labour is prob even cheaper. Just a small prob with the liklihood of death but other than that, dream place

Pasha · Post by **Pasha** » Thu 01 Jul, 2004 10:56 pm

To quote a remark that Mr. H Hopkins, special envoy to Roosevelt, made to a British General;

The Persian Gulf is the arsehole of the world, and Basra is eighty miles up it.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Mon 05 Jul, 2004 6:37 pm

Pasha wrote:To quote a remark that Mr. H Hopkins, special envoy to Roosevelt, made to a British General;
The Persian Gulf is the arsehole of the world, and Basra is eighty miles up it.

I don't remember "him-who-keeps-me-in-cash-so-I-can-be one-of-them-ladies-what-lunch " saying that.
Although, perhaps his dad did

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Holiday in Basra anyone?

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