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Old 10th Apr 2014, 17:02
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I was in Shaibah the week we pulled out in 2007 if memory serves and in a sorry state. Runway not in the best condition and most if not all of the HAS's had been blown.

Basrah Maqal is at the front of the Shaat al Arab hotel which was our main presence downtown, not counting the Palace. From memory the runway was a vehicle park and the rest was tent city.

Basrah Int was in comparatively good nick apart from the terminal building which needed a lot of work, I think we moved out of the Terminal in '96 and handed it back to the locals, we then used our own dedicated terminal - read two big tents and a baggage scanner.

Didn't go to any of the other southern strips, but up north Balad, Talil & Baghdad were all in fairly good condition.
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