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 | A British soldier takes aim during clashes with Shiite militiamen in the southern Iraqi city of Basra May 11th 2004. Amnesty International accused British troops of killing Iraqi civilians who posed no immediate threat. click to open  |  | British soldiers guard a burning oil pipeline near Basra, southern Iraq, Monday, May 10, 2004. The sabotage attack on this southern pipeline has hindered oil exports from Iraq's vital Basra terminal. click to open |  | Iraqi Sheikh Abdul Satar Al-Bahadli, an aid to radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, holds aloft pictures of allegedly abused Iraqi prisoners and urges Iraqi people to participate in the jihad during Friday prayers in Basra, southern Iraq, Friday, May 14, 2004. click to open |  | Iraqi Shi'ite cleric Abdul-Satar Al-Bahadli holds up a rifle while addressing worshipers during Friday prayers in Basra, May 14, 2004. U.S. forces intensified their war against Iraqi cleric Moqtada al-Sadr on Friday, sending tanks into Najaf's vast cemetery to blast guerrilla positions among its ancient tombs for the first time. click to open |  | Gulf War II - Battle in Basra: A British soldier lays explosives to detonate an arsenal of shells at an Iraqi army base south of Basra, southern Iraq Sunday, March 30, 2003. click to open |  | Gulf War II - Battle in Basra: Soldiers serving with the Number 2 Company, the 1st Battalion, The Irish Guards, look to one of their commanders, in an armored personnel carrier, for the location of the Iraqi firing positions, on the outskirts of Basra, Iraq Sunday March 30 2003. click to open |  | Gulf War II - Battle in Basra: Soldiers from 40 Commando of the Queens Dragoon Guards fire at Iraqi positions in the Date Groves, south of Basra in southern Iraq, Sunday, March 30, 2003. click to open |  | Gulf War II - Battle in Basra: A British soldier checks an Iraqi man trying to flee the city of Basra, southern Iraq, Sunday, March 30, 2003. click to open |  | Gulf War II - Battle in Basra: British soldiers from 29 Commando Regiment Royal Artillery fire at targets in Abu al Khasib, an Iraqi military stronghold outside the city of Basra in southern Iraq in support of a British Royal Marines attack on the area, March 30, 2003. British Foreign Office Minister Mike O'Brien said that military forces in Iraq were 'reshaping' but stressed the war was going according to plan. click to open |  | Gulf War II - Battle in Basra: A British soldier from 2CS patrols past an elderly woman in a village near Basra, southern Iraq, on Friday, March 28, 2003. click to open |
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