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2004-05-15 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Still Plenty of Time for Hot-Rod Racing at Mullahsâ Airport

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Posted by Mike Sylwester 2004-05-15 12:00:00 AM|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 An Iranian Big Dig.

Posted by Super Hose 2004-05-15 4:04:42 AM|| 2004-05-15 4:04:42 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 It's interesting to watch the various types of spin being deployed on this fiasco. The early story (commented on in RB last week) was that the original engineering firm overseeing the effort "quit" at the end of the Iran-Iraq war in 1988 and the effort was "awarded" to an Islamic charity. The net result was a flurry of changed specifications, runways built from asphalt instead of concrete, faulty wiring, faulty flight control systems, etc. leading to an inability to get the airport certified for international service, cost overruns, missing money, political corruption, etc. The last story was that the mullahs' enforcers shut it down because they were "shocked" to discover that the Turkish company had "Zionist partners."

Basically just another story of Islamic greed, graft, and incompetence being blamed on the Jews. This civilization peaked with the fall of Constantinople in 1453.

Posted by RWV 2004-05-15 9:55:48 AM|| 2004-05-15 9:55:48 AM|| Front Page Top

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