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To: gandalftb

“Tunneling is something that Iran has always done better than any country in the world, throughout history, it’s an engineering fact.”

Very interesting. Have a source or two for that?

TIA!


47 posted on 03/07/2012 12:08:06 PM PST by Yehuda
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To: Yehuda

Yeah. . .I was wondering that, too.

I thought the North Koreans had that tunneling thing down to an art and science.


51 posted on 03/07/2012 1:01:39 PM PST by Hulka
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To: Yehuda

The qanat system (underground aqueducts) over 3K years old and still in use today by the Persians. Ok, Iranians. Ghadffi of Libya was in process of building/adding to his underground water system when bayoneted.


58 posted on 03/07/2012 5:46:55 PM PST by donozark (A soldier lives as long as he is remembered...)
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To: Yehuda

Google “qanat”

Ancient Persians started civilizations first tunnels, 7th century BC:

http://www.waterhistory.org/histories/qanats/

Iran taught the world how to dig. They still have 170,000 miles of underground water conduits.


73 posted on 03/09/2012 12:43:35 PM PST by gandalftb (11th MEU, 2/4 Echo, TRAP Force)
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