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Shatt Al Arab Sports Club in Basra Renovated

Shatt Al Arab Sports Club in Basra Renovated

Ten years ago, Shatt Al Arab sports club in Al Tanoma city in east Basra was an old building. “Shatt Al Arab sports club was a really unusable building, all the walls and ceilings were in very bad condition, but now everything looks new thanks to the U.S. Army Engineers efforts,” said Lateef Khalf, the sports club administrator. The Gulf Region Division, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in Iraq, invested $300,000 to reconstruct the four-decade-old facility. Khalf said … Read entire article »

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