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Sun 04 Apr 2003Hundreds of tanks enter Basra in major assaultBritish troops have launched a second wave of attacks on Basra, Iraq's strategic second city. Hours earlier soldiers from the 7th Armoured Brigade made a breakthrough following more than two weeks of battling on the city's outskirts.The campaign comes a week after the Marines' biggest attack of the war - codenamed Operation James - when they seized large parts of the city suburbs.