Basrah was the home of Sinbad the Sailor and from here he sailed the high seas. British soldiers were back again to their former Empirical roots and grappling with Islam,
A City that is tainted indelibly with the culture of a thousand races and it will be unrecognizable in 50 years. This ever changing beast is as horrifying as it is beautiful.
"It takes an amateur 30 minutes to kill a person with a hammer where it would take a pro under a minute," he explained to me in the Charity Shop after we picked her out.