Iraq Asks Russian Power Engineers to Come Back

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Another instance of de-Bremerization.

Iraqi government has asked Russian power engineering specialists to continue working on the objects that they used to build before the beginning of 2003 U.S.-led invasion, RIA Novosti reported.

Iraqi Electricity Minister Mohsen Shalash told Russia’s temporary representative in Baghdad Ilya Morgunov that the help of Russians is needed at such objects as the country’s biggest heat power plant Yusefiya, Dibis power plant in Kurdistan and Nasiriya in the southern Iraq.

Iraq has also invited Russian specialists to work as consultants and advisers at the Electricity Ministry.

The question of the return of Russians to Iraq will be raised in late September, during the Mohsen Shalash’s visit to Moscow.

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[BootinUp]

1. it would be funny

if the dead were just imaginary pieces in a board game.

[damntexdem]

2. Hey, Iraq, get in line --

the U.S. needs those engineers to get power back to New Orleans.

[Athame]

3. Question. I read on DU a while back but can't find the source for it

that the US had redesigned the Iraqi power grid to American format and that is why the whole country had to be rewired to get the power back on. Anybody else recall this info?

Looks like Iraq is finally going back to the previous grid. Hope their power is soon ON. They have lived far too long with our greedy fuck ups.

[Igel]

4. It makes sense: the Russians designed and built a lot of the

stuff, and have largely the same kind of "kick it and jerry-rig it until it works ... for now" attitude. It worked in the USSR, it's working in Russia, it'll work the same way in Iraq.

I'd fix the English to make it comprehensible without a lot of assumptions. The first line should probably read "The Iraqi government has asked Russian power engineers to resume work on the projects they were building at the beginning of the 2003 US-led invasion." That is, that's probably what the Russian said, before the non-native translators got a hold of it.

Moscow English was always a bit quirky, but used to be much, much better. Standards have slipped. A lot.

I'm not sure what a 'heat power plant' is, unless it matches the centralized Soviet system of heat generation in a central location, with steam sent through pipes to heat a section of the city (rather than have individual furnaces/heat exchangers, electric heat, or gas heat).

[Duer 157099]

5. Was this because they saw the result of American handiwork

in New Orleans?