UK troops leave Basra police HQ
Updated on 26 August 2007
Shiite militiamen from the Mahdi Army have taken over the police joint command centre in Basra after British soldiers withdrew from the facility and handed control to the Iraqi police, witnesses said.
Police left the building when the militiamen, loyal to anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, arrived, the witnesses said.
The British military disputed the reports, saying they had been in contact with the Iraqi general in charge of security in Basra, who has said the Mahdi Army was not there.
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