Basra

Al-Baṣrah (Arabic: البصرة‎; BGN: Al Basrah, also called 'Basorah) is the capital of Basra Province, Iraq, and is Iraq's second largest and second most populous city. Basra is also Iraq's main port, although it is incapable of deep water access, which is handled at the port of Umm Qasr. The city is the historic location of Sumer, the home of Sinbad the Sailor, and a proposed location of the Garden of Eden. It also played an important role in early Islamic history, being built in 636 CE.

Basra in Worldwar
Basra was a restive city within the Race's Tosev 3 colonies. The Muslim population chaffed under Race rule. Very early in the Race's invasion, several infantrymales disappeared outside the city. The Race responded violently, which helped quell Basra until the arrival of the Colonization Fleet. As that fleet neared, tensions began mounting in Basra again. Ruhollah Khomeini, a Muslim firebrand from Iran, made Basra one of his regular haunts. Days before the Colonization Fleet was due to land, Khomeini whipped up a riot against the Race, which was brutally put down. However, tensions simmered, especially when colonists began living in Basra, and some of the most fundamentalist Muslims learned that unclothed females were among them.

After a time, the followers of Khomeini learned that subtle terrorist attacks would work better than rioting. When they discovered that females of the Race went into heat upon tasting ginger, they kidnapped females, fed them ginger, and waited for out of control infantrymales to arrive. Whole squads of males were wiped out using this trap.

However, incidents such as this decreased as the Race's retaliation increased in scale. Basra quieted down further once an infanrymale named Gorpett actually captured Khomeini, who was quickly tranferred to Argentina. Basra would never be a completely safe place for the Race, but it was less dangerous from then on.