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Basras Security Endangered By Drug

Juan Cole 02/11/2004

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Basra’s Security Endangered by Drug Smugglers, Terrorists

Az-Zaman conducted an interview with the Iraqi police chief in Basra about security there. He said the city’s security was threatened by al-Qaeda terrorism and by criminal gangs. The latter are involved in drug smuggling and in looting the materials being used for reconstruction and reselling them elsewhere. He said that drug smugglers had set up a number of unauthorized docks along the Shatt al-Arab waterway that feeds into the Persian Gulf.

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Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Follow him on Twitter at @jricole or the Informed Comment Facebook Page

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