How Is Basra Doing?

"Queen Amidala sent me this letter from Basra:

Here what has happened in Basrah during the past 3 or 4 days.

A lot of threats were issued to people with jobs in general, and also to some important supermarkets. I think it's just for the sake of issuing threats because they threaten to punish some shops if they sell anything to the British army. The Brits aren't in the habit of buying anything from the city. So there was no reason for issuing threats to those shops.

Fayrouz in Beaumont