Basrah International Airport Opens to Commercial Flights

CENTCOM ^ | 06/20/05 | BJ Weiner Gulf Region Southern District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

[Marine_Uncle]

Basrah - After almost 20 years of sporadic flying and finally being grounded, the first Iraqi Airways flight landed at Basrah International Airport June 4 with the help of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Gulf Region South.

The Corps’ goal is to give the Iraqis a functioning civil aviation airport that will allow planes with passengers to land and take off, both domestically and internationally, according to Robert Vanoer, resident engineer for the Basrah Resident Office, Gulf Region District South (GRS).

[Marine_Uncle]

In my opinion, worth clicking on the URL to read full article. One hightlite: "...Originally built in 1986, the plant, like many of the airport’s facilities was never maintained and now needs refurbishment."

As usual shows just how bad the Saddam regime maintained the countries infrastructure. Most monies went into building a war machine, and the hell with the country.

[federal]

Well I guess they didn't get the message from Biden and the rest of the democRATS. Everything is screwwed up in Iraq, how dare them land commercial airliners there........

[Marine_Uncle]

"Well I guess they didn't get the message from Biden and the rest of the democRATS. Everything is screwwed up in Iraq, how dare them land commercial airliners there........"

Could make one wonder if these bozos ever read current events. Of course in the case of Biden, I bet he has people scanning the news of Iraq on a daily basis. I doubt the scales on his eyes would enable him to read the significance of this lastest report. After all GWB surely betrayed us.