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		<title>Al Qa’im station returned to civil use</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2008 11:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Grantham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The railway station at Al Qa’im near the Syrian border has been used as a US military base, but was handed back to Iraq in October.
The Daily Telegraph had an Iraq insurgency: Defending the railroads on October 12 2007, describing activities on the railway in the area.
Warlords Turn Over Camp Al Qaim; Railroad to Open [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Old train at the train yard in Al Qaim</title>
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Old train at the train yard in Al Qaim

Originally uploaded by Hired Gun


Flickr user &#8220;Hired Gun&#8221; has some rather artistic photos of rail facilities at Al Qaim in northwest Iraq, near the border with Syria. DEM 4152 (or is it 4153?)  is a Francorail loco dating from the early 1980s.

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		<title>Defending the railroads</title>
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		<dc:creator>Andrew Grantham</dc:creator>
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McElroy reports from al-Qaim,saying

The unending suspension of Iraq&#8217;s national railway stands as a stark symbol of the failure to rebuild the nation. 
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