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Witnesses said about 150 Iraqi prisoners also fled the jail.Violence flared earlier in the day as demonstrators hurled stones and Molotov cocktails at Britishtanks; at least four people were killed.The British Defense Ministry spun, but found it difficult to maneuver with its pants about itsankles. "We‘ve heard nothing to suggest we stormed the prison," a defense ministry spokesmanin London said. "We understand there were negotiations." When it found some equilibrium, itchanged its story to better comport with the undeniables: "We understand that the authoritiesordered their release. Unfortunately they weren't released and we became concerned for theirsafety and as a result a Warrior infantry fighting vehicle broke down the perimeter wall in oneplace."These hard men, likely SAS ops, must have had some stories to tell, otherwise tanks would nothave negotiated their way through the prison walls of Britain's reputed hosts so soon after theircapture.Walking into the untidied mess of this astonishing and grotesque and predictable story feels a bitlike the British detective catching the killer red-handed: "Well well well, what have we here?"We have long had reason to suspect imperial instigation to Iraq's sectarian violence, but here, asclearly as we've ever seen it, is the provocateur state revealed: two British "undercover soldiers"in Arab dress, caught firing upon police from a car laden with explosives. And the Britishgovernment all but admitting its culpability by breaking them out of prison.It doesn't make sense? Only if you haven't been paying attention. This is the subtext of the Iraqtragedy: blow up the Hajis and play the Sunnis on the Shias; create the chaos that introduces theconditions necessary for the long-game, and the long-held aspirations of the neoconservatives todivide Iraq into ethnographic bantustans.I wonder what will be made of this story by those who think escalating bloodshed in Iraq is ameasure of the failure of US policy, and not its success, and who believe black ops and falseflags are figments of our paranoiac fantasies. Probably, as with so much that would bedevil theirworldview if only they were intellectually honest enough to permit it, this too will be filtered outand forgotten. But our burden is we won't forget. And damned if the Iraqis will.A British soldier jumps from a burning tank which was set ablaze after a shooting incident in thesouthern Iraqi city of Basra September 19, 2005. Angry crowds attacked a British tank withpetrol bombs and rocks in Basra on Monday after Iraqi authorities said they had detained twoBritish undercover soldiers in the southern city for firing on police.rigorousintuition.blogspot.com/2005/09/carry-on-killing.htmlMiddle East Press: "Suspicions occupation involved in armed operations against civilians andplaces of worship"GlobalResearch.caSeptember 20, 2005207