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The problem is that the Italian contractor refuses to work unless the Italian army is allowed to send a unit to defend them. Last I'd heard, the Iraqi governmen
by afarrell 11y ago
The problem is that the Italian contractor refuses to work unless the Italian army is allowed to send a unit to defend them. Last I'd heard, the Iraqi government is withholding their approval for this.
- spacecowboy_lon 11y agoAnd the problem of getting workforce and the required plant to the location in the middle of a low level civil war.
- mercurial 11y agoConsidering the propension of the Iraqi military to run away when faced with ill-equipped, outnumbered opponents, I can't blame the contractor.
- arethuza 11y agoSome Soviet engineers ended up having a particularly nasty end when they were captured while working on the infamous Kajaki dam in Afghanistan.