this is a repeat of basra.i would like to the prime minister to declare [unintelligible] >> i know my hon. friend has great experience in afghanistan, having trrveled there many times themselves. 3 repeat of basra. what is happening is making sure we have the correct number of troops spread across helman and at the country for counterinsurgency. that this mean moving forces from one place to another to make sure they are thick enough across the hall of the ground. it is welcome there are now 20,000 u.s. marines there and it should enable us to enable the security. we should not be worried or shame or anything if we move the disposition of our forces around with their u.s. allies. that was part of delivering a successful outcome. >> i welcome the prime minister's statement. its soldiers have been deployed time. any statement on the equipment prime minnster did not mention was unmanned aerial vehicles. barry in mind there are tools that are very important, would pe give a commitment that they will be very much th

ccller: i wanted to ask about someone in basra and he did not seem to have power. his father was an ayatollah. he went to ayatollah school or some kind of thing. if he graduates this school -- host: who are you talking about specifically? caller: i do not know his name. host: any idea of that? guest: i think our caller is talking about the head of the trend that is from central iraq and the son of a revered and distinguished grand ayatollah who was assassinated by saddam hussein in 1999. he has been in iran studying theology since the beginning of 2007. he has taken himself out of the political discourse in the r iraq. %+e longer he's there, the less influential he will become. is a proud state. they have limited affinity towards iran against whom they fought in a bitter ground war from 1980 until 1928. the longer that he is in iran, the less politically influenced he becomes. host: michael on our independent line. caller: my question -- you have worked in pakistan and work with the government'. at the time, we needed the government to crack down on the talbot comi

ccller: i wanted to ask about someone in basra and he did not seem to have power. his father was an ayatollah. he went to ayatollah school or some kind of thing. if he graduates this school -- host: who are you talking about specifically? caller: i do not know his name. host: any idea of that? guest: i think our caller is talking about the head of the trend that is from central iraq and the son of a revered and distinguished grand ayatollah who was assassinated by saddam hussein in 1999. he has been in iran studying theology since the beginning of 2007. he has taken himself out of the political discourse in the r iraq. %+e longer he's there, the less influential he will become. is a proud state. they have limited affinity towards iran against whom they fought in a bitter ground war from 1980 until 1928. the longer that he is in iran, the less politically influenced he becomes. host: michael on our independent line. caller: my question -- you have worked in pakistan and work with the government'. at the time, we needed the government to crack down on the talbot comi

ccller: i wanted to ask about someone in basra and he did no seem to have power. his father was an ayatollah. he went to ayatollah school or some kind of thing. if he graduates this school -- host: who are you talking about specifically? caller: io not know his nam host: any idea of that? guest: i think our caller is talking about the head of the trend that is from central ir and theon of a revered and dtinguished grand ayatollah who was assassinated by saddam hussein in 1999. he has been in iran sdying theology since the beginning of 2007. he has takenself out of the political discourse in the r iraq. %+longer he's there, the less influential he will become. is a proud state. they have limed affinity towards iran against whom they fought in a bitter ground war om 1980 until 1928. the longer that he is in iran, the less politically iluenced he becomes. host: michael on our independent line. caller: my question -u have worked in pakistannd work with the government'. at the time, we needed the governmento crack down on the talbot coming in -- on the taliban coming i