Rockets hit British in southern Iraq (AP)

A boy cycles past Iraqi soldiers guarding house of Adnan al-Dulaimi, one of Iraq's most influential Sunni politicians who leads the Iraqi Accordance Front, the largest Sunni Arab bloc in parliament, in Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday Jan. 31, 2008. The Iranian ambassador to Iraq, Hassan Kazemi Qomi who was to meet al-Dulaimi was turned back at an Iraqi army checkpoint near compound in the Adil neighborhood in western Baghdad, according to officials from both sides. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed )AP - Violence returned Thursday to the southern city of Basra, where militants pummeled Britain’s airport base with 20 rockets and British gunners answered with volleys of artillery. Civilians were killed and wounded in the crossfire.

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