Basra Mulls Breaking Away from Baghdad

28 Dec 2010 (Washington Times) BASRA, Iraq | Over a recent dinner, two friends — both local businessmen — dished over a simmering topic in Iraq’s oil-rich port city: whether to boost Basra’s
future by partially breaking away from the federal government in Baghdad.

“How long will Basra act as Iraq’s milk cow while we are starving?” Najim Edan said, arguing that the city and province that surrounds it could thrive if it stopped sending more money to the Iraqi capital than it gets back in government aid…Read the rest from Washington Times