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Iraq
IS caused $37 billion damage to Iraq’s infrastructure
2017-05-01
[Iraq News] The damages which the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
(IS) organization caused to the infrastructure of Iraq are estimated to be around 42 trillion IQD (approx. 37 billion USD), according to a report by Turkish Anadulo news agency.

The report cited Abdulzahra al-Hindawi, the spokesperson for the Ministry of Planning, as saying the total figure does not include the damages to the houses and personal possessions of residents of the war-torn areas.

The official added the Ministry of Planning conducted a survey in the areas which were under IS control and found the volume of the damages "extremely extensive, as 80% of the areas has been razed."
Posted by:Fred

#3  0bumhole is gone. I can hope.
Posted by: gorb   2017-05-01 11:27  

#2  "If", gorb, "if"?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2017-05-01 07:48  

#1  And if the US is stupid enough to pay for it, it will be $370B.
Posted by: gorb   2017-05-01 01:21  

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