Posted on 01/03/2008 3:15:53 PM PST by SandRat
BAGHDAD, Jan. 3, 2008 Thousands of families in eastern Baghdad soon will have their neighborhoods free of raw sewage in the streets.
Residents there appreciate the improvements taking place, said Iraqi engineer Mustafa Haddad, who works for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. For over two years, weve been working on this project, and the community has been very supportive. They were using slit trenches and wading through raw sewage to get to their homes, a definite health risk. Haddad is the deputy resident engineer of the corps Loyalty Office, located south of Sadr City. More than 20 Iraqi engineers work out of the office, overseeing more than $125 million in infrastructure improvements in eastern Baghdad, including school and hospital renovations, electric network upgrades, road paving and new water-treatment facilities. Haddad has put up with mortars, one of his fellow Iraqi engineers was gunned down after visiting a school project, other office workers have been injured, and he personally has been targeted by insurgents and had to move his family to a different area. Were here because we know how important this work is for our country and our people. Yes, its a difficult time. But those in need are looking for help, and were going to continue to do everything we can to offer it to them, he said. Their streets will soon be dry and clean. People in Kamaliya are seeing significant signs of progress. Haddad, 29, earned a bachelors degree in civil engineering from Baghdads University of Technology. My family worries about me and the dangers I face, but they understand how important this work is, he said. We need to keep making things better, and some day soon Iraq will turn the corner. Apart from Kamaliya, Haddad is overseeing 20 other sewer projects in eastern Baghdad. (Norris Jones is a public affairs officer with the Gulf Region Central district, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, in Iraq.) |
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Do I really need the < /sarcasm > ?
What a crime that the lamestream won't inform us about these major improvements ... One month with a modern sewer system, and those Iraqi's will see to it their whole country starts to modernize.
Thanx for the report.
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