December 17, 2007 (LPAC)--In an interview to air this evening on ITV, and available on the Guardian Unlimited website, Major General Jalil Khalaf, the police commander in Basra, who has survived 20 assassination attempts over the past half year, says the pull-out of British troops ``left me militia, left me gangsters, and they left me all the trouble in the world.'' Gen. Khalaf says that one of the priorities now is to wrest control back from the Shia militias, who, he says, are better armed than his men, and control Iraq's main port. He says that the British rearmed the militias, and ``put weapons in the hands of the wrong people.'' After they disbanded the Iraqi police and military in 2003, the British ``armed these people in the extremist groups, and now we are faced with a situation where these police are loyal to their parties, not their country.''