A clearer picture developed overnight as to exactly what happened yesterday when British armored forces staged a break-out of two undercover British soldiers from an Iraqi jail.
It appears that the soldiers were taken into custody by Iraqi police, and for some reason the soldiers were handed over to Shiite militiamen and held at the jail. The Iraqi Interior Minister ordered the soldiers released into British Army custody, but the order was ignored by the militiamen, whose alliegence and affiliation is unclear.
When that happened, the British stormed the jail and took the men from the militiamen.
So this wasn't a case of the British Army taking on the Iraqi police; it was the British Army putting illegal militias into their places.
Puts the story in an entirely different light.
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