Picture of the Day - 2

An explosion destroys the Al Jameat Police Station in Basra, south of Baghdad, December 25, 2006. British and Iraqi forces stormed and destroyed the headquarters of the serious crimes unit in Basra on Monday after learning prisoners were about to be executed, the British military said. (Crown Copyright/Cpl Russ Nolan RLC/Reuters)
















A general view shows a prison cell that held around 70 prisoners at the Al Jameat Police Station in Basra, south of Baghdad, December 25, 2006. Cpl Russ Nolan RLC/Crown Copyright
















An Iraqi passes by police vehicles damaged in a British army raid on on Jameat police station in Basra, 550 kilometers (340 miles) southeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, Dec. 25, 2006.(AP Photo/Nabil al-Jurani)

















Police sift through the rubble of a building of a police station after it was destroyed by British forces in Basra, 550 km (340 miles) south of Baghdad, December 25, 2006. British forces seized a major Basra police station suspected of militia activity and transferred prisoners to another station before planting explosives and destroying the building. REUTERS/Atef Hassan

Here's an AFP article on the raid.