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Khalid Kabasy, an Iraqi real-estate investor, climbs out of the back of a Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicle before touring the Tourist Village hotel and resort April 6. It wasn't Kabasy's first visit to the once-popular vacation spot – he was married in 1984. The resort was built in 1979 and boomed during the 1980s, attracting tourists throughout the Middle East until the start of Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2003. Some of the necessary repairs and planning have begun with help from Marines with Charlie Battery, 1st Battalion, 11th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division – deployed to Camp Taqaddum with the 1st Marine Logistics Group – but Marine and Iraqi officials said further improvements to the existing facilities must take place to bring the resort back to its former prominence.
| Date Taken: | 04.06.2008 |
| Date Posted: | 02.10.2012 09:30 |
| Photo ID: | 83664 |
| VIRIN: | 080406-M-1588E-002 |
| Resolution: | 3504x2336 |
| Size: | 3.96 MB |
| Location: | HABBANIYAH, IQ |
| Web Views: | 205 |
| Downloads: | 23 |
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