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作者：Anonymous 在 罕见奇谈 发贴, 来自 http://www.hjclub.org
Uprising reported in Basra
British forces are bombarding the city
A "popular civilian uprising" is reported to be taking place in the southern Iraqi city of Basra, according to British military intelligence officials.
A spokesman in Kuwait said there appeared to be some form of civilian revolt taking place, but as yet there is no independent confirmation of the report.
According to military intelligence officials, Iraqi troops in the city have turned mortar fire on their own civilians in an attempt to crush the unrest.
Journalist Richard Gaisford, who is with the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards just outside Basra, says the British troops are bombarding the mortar positions in an effort to support of the uprising.
"There is more artillery being fired into the city centre of Basra - they are doing that to try to take out Iraqi mortar positions and the mortar positions are firing on the uprisers," Richard Gaisford told the BBC.
BASRA REGION
Map: Military operations in Iraq
"We are being told there is a popular uprising in Basra itself, because of that the armed forces that remain, the Iraqi forces, are firing on those people who are protesting against Saddam Hussein's regime," he added.
He said that the British troops were using a system of radar tracking to pinpoint and then attack the mortar positions.
One unnamed British officer said the rebellion was taking place in the north of the city.
"We have seen a large crowd on the streets. The Iraqis are firing their own artillery at their own people. There will be carnage," he added.
Coalition planes have dropped two very large bombs on the Baath Party headquarters in the city, which is reported to have been reduced to rubble.
Level of support
The BBC's Tim Franks who is on the Iraq-Kuwait border, says that if reports of the uprising are true, this is what the British forces had hoped for.
Until now, there has been no evidence of any support for British and American forces inside Basra.
Rather, the coalition forces believed that around 1,000 die-hard Saddam Hussein supporters were based in the city and keeping the population in check, our correspondent says.
Why Basra matters
The United Nations has warned of a potential humanitarian crisis in Iraq's second city, which is home to about 1.5 million people.
Some 100,000 children are at risk of disease as fighting there has continued for four days, disrupting supplies of drinking water, a UN spokesman said.
Engineers from the International Committee of the Red Cross are currently working at the water pumping station with serves the city, and are hoping to restart the plant later on in the day.
Aid plans
Spokesman Florian Westphal told BBC News Online that no more than 40% of the city's population had access to piped water at present, and that the rest were probably taking water direct from the river, where sewage is dumped.
A UK naval ship loaded up in Kuwait with stocks of food, water and other supplies is still waiting to dock in the nearby Iraqi port of Umm Qasr as work continues to clear mines from the sea there.
Securing the port is seen as a crucial stage in ensuring the delivery of humanitarian aid to people in southern Iraq, and particularly in Basra.
Leaflets and wind-up radios have been dropped from aircraft to try to reassure the population of Basra.
People have also been warned not to carry weapons on the street and advised to listen to military radio set up by the coalition forces.
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