Al Jameat police station
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The Al Jameat Police station was a major Iraqi police station in Basra, Iraq that was involved in several incidents involving British soldiers. It was destroyed by the British army on December 25, 2006.
[edit] September 19, 2005 raid
The raid was mounted after the two undercover soldiers were arrested by Iraqi police and passed on to a Shia militia. Although this was disputed by Iraq's interior minister, Bayan Jabr, disputed the British account who said the soldiers had not been handed over to anyone else and that the British had acted on a rumor. A spokesman for Muhammad al-Waili, the governor of Basra Province, said the same thing in an interview, adding that the British were "claiming that to justify their illegal behavior"
British troops used armoured vehicles to storm the Jameat police station compound, demolishing perimeter walls and buildings inside, and freed the two British prisoners. The Iraqis claim seven people were killed during day-long demonstrations
[edit] December 25, 2006 incident
The British army claimed that the 'Iraqi serious crimes unit' of the Iraqi police was planning to execute several prisoners, and raided the compound. They also say they came under fire and killed seven Iraqi policemen, after removing the prisoners, the British army engineers planted explosives and destroyed the police station complex
