They said as many as 1, 000 Iraqi army irregulars had withdrawn into the city.

CNN: UK: Iraq to feel backlash in Basra

The Iraqis fighting in Basra were "irregulars, " lightly armed and few in number, Lockwood said.

CNN: British troops in southern Iraq.

The new bodies bring the known total of Jupiter satellites to 39, of which 31 are irregulars.

BBC: More moons for Jupiter

He said British forces also killed 20 irregulars in the swiftly conducted raid.

CNN: UK: Iraq to feel backlash in Basra

Some of the battle groups have met some resistance from irregulars.

CNN: Basra offers a lesson on taking Baghdad

He later claimed, however, that he and his compatriots were disarmed and turned back by other Arabs who did not want the help of Palestinian irregulars.

CNN: Struggle for Peace: Yasser Arafat

Opposing Frank is the real-life police detective Richie Roberts (Russell Crowe), who hunts Frank down with a group of irregulars (that is, honest cops) operating out of Essex County, New Jersey.

NEWYORKER: American Gangster

At face value, Bernanke and the rest of the Easy Street Irregulars would have us believe that QE2 is about creating juuuuussssst enough inflation for at least one person in this country to want to hire one other person.

FORBES: The Shelf Offering Theory of QE2

In 1811, President Madison secretly dispatched a disgraced Georgia pol and land speculator named George Mathews to secure Florida for the U.S. After a year's boondoggling, Mathews and a force of nine irregulars talked the nine Spanish defenders of the island into ceding it to America, a meaningless swap that neither country recognized.

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