Iraq: Iraq Awards Contract for Repairing 'Most Dangerous Dam in the World'

Feb 3, 2016 | Qassim Abdul-Zahra, The Associated Press
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Iraq on Tuesday awarded an Italian company a contract to overhaul and maintain the Mosul dam in the country's north, days after a U.S. general warned of its possible collapse. Government spokesman Saad al-Hadithi told The Associated Press the Cabinet awarded the contract to Italy's Trevi group Tuesday. He had no precise figure for the contract's value. However, a Cabinet official told AP it was worth $230 million and that work on the dam would begin later this month.