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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 »
Filed under: Iraq, Rebuilding, War on Terror
Tournament Showcases Fun + Unity Throughout E Baghdad
Cheers, music and fun filled the famed Shaab stadium during a two-day soccer tournament held, May 22 and 23, in eastern Baghdad’s Rusafa District. The tournament symbolizes the success of a month-long effort between FC Unity, a London-based organization, and U.S. and Iraqi officials to provide the people of Iraq a platform for development and education through a series of soccer programs. As a sense of normalcy continues to fill the Iraqi capital, Paratroopers of the 3rd … Read entire article »
Filed under: Iraq, Rebuilding, War on Terror
