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Posted on 08/23/2007 6:49:43 PM PDT by SandRat
BAQOUBA, Iraq, Aug. 23, 2007 — The Baqouba public flour mill began processing wheat Aug. 20, after being closed for nearly a year, marking the local production of flour in the Diyala Province as a major step toward Iraqi self-sufficiency. "This is one more piece to the larger puzzle of providing normalcy here. It's probably the most important thing we've done."
Lt. Col. Fred Johnson, deputy commanding officer of the 3rd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division.
"This is one more piece to the larger puzzle of providing normalcy here," said Lt. Col. Fred Johnson, deputy commanding officer of the 3rd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division. "It's probably the most important thing we've done."
Five-hundred and sixty tons of imported wheat arrived in a 21-truck convoy at the flour mill Aug. 16 from Baghdad. The grain, imported from the United States, will be cleaned in multiple processes and milled with a mixture of 25 percent locally-grown wheat.
The product will then be sacked and distributed to the local population as part of the Public Distribution System, an Iraqi program dating back to the 1980s. The distribution program largely collapsed after insurgent forces disrupted Public Distribution System operations in Baqouba last year.
The mill is expected to employ around 100 workers in addition to truck drivers. Its addition to the local economy is expected to help lower the price of bread for the people of Diyala province. The mill is capable of producing 200 tons of finished flour per day.
FR WAR NEWS! More progress for the lib-tards to try and trash.
WOW! 200 tons of flour each day! That’s 400,000 pounds of flour.
When is the first brewery gonna open?
Wait a second...this is good news. Why, it brings hope to everyone who reads it! How did good news make it out of Iraq ? Someone alert harry reid.
Came from Defense Department Public Affairs...they’re sneaky bustards.
They leak news to the public without first notifying Hairy Reid or the Washington Press Corps.
Come on SandRat huh? 5 years and they open a friggin flour mill and this is a thread? Hats and horns !!!
So much for your "5 years". Also why are you suggesting that this flour mill is the first thing they open? There are dozens of other infrastructural facilities that have been built already before.
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