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| | Marine Corps News -> Marine-funded, Iraqi-built water plant quenches long parched village |
 | | AL KABANI, Iraq (July 26, 2004) -- For the first time in almost 10 years, the citizens here have clean water and constant electricity flowing into their homes, thanks to their local government, the Marines and their own hard work. |
 | | Earlier, leaders from 3rd Battalion, 24th Marine Regiment, met with Kabani's leader, Muktar Ismael Mahmoud Hamaad, 36, and district manager, Thayer Hamdallah, 28, to cut the ribbon to a Marine-funded, Iraqi-built, water purification station, which pumps fresh water to approximately 3,000 impoverished people in the area. |
 | | Earlier, leaders from 3rd Battalion, 24th Marine Regiment, met with Kabani's leader, Muktar Ismael Mahmoud Hamaad, 36, and district manager, Thayer Hamdallah, 28, to cut the ribbon to the station, which pumps fresh water to approximately 3,000 impoverished people in the area. |
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