Basra the battleground for Iraq army effort…

Iraq's Army will target militias in Iraq's oil capital Basra in a last ditch effort to route the growing violence before provincial elections which may take place this fall, Kim Sengupta reports for The Independent.

This poses a huge dilemma for citizens and the country. Who exactly of the dozens of militias will the Army target — the random and/or organized street gangs, the religious fundamentalists that pack heavy weaponry, those armed fighters loyal to the ruling political parties in Baghd…