The British success in Basra

From the Guardian,

As British forces finally handed over security in Basra province, marking the end of 4½ years of control in southern Iraq, Major General Jalil Khalaf, the new police commander, said the occupation had left him with a situation close to mayhem. "They left me militia, they left me gangsters, and they left me all the troubles in the world," he said in an interview for Guardian Films and ITV....."

(Khalaf has survived 20 assassination attempts in six months.)

From the Independent: Britain bows out of a five-year war it could never have won.

CSM: British hand over Basra in disarray.