Ebook: Mr Dan and the Dams of Kurdistan: a Cork Man in Saddam's Iraq

Prologue; Amman to the Iraqi Border; Iraqi Border to Baghdad; Journey to Work in Baghdad; Journey from Work in Baghdad; Hotel Babel; Republican Palace; Mini history of Baghdad; Martyrs' Monument and the Canal Hotel; Freedom Frieze; Baghdad to Taji; Taji to Sammara; Tikrit to Sulaymaniyah; Baji Oil Complex; Formation of Kurdistan; Operations Northern Comfort and Northern Watch; Erbil Leaders; Kurdish Factions conflicting electricity requirements; Baghdad Jesuit College; Kurdish UN Staff; Erbil Citadel; Social Life Erbil; Escape of Saddam's Nuclear Scientist; The Hamilton Road.;For Dan Coakley, Iraq ticked all the boxes. It had a mad dictator, a secret police that left the Gestapo far behind in terms of brutality and sadism and a temperature range that varied from minus fifteen to plus fifty degrees Celsius. Dan was asked to be the Technical Manager of the electricity sector, the largest module of the largest aid programme in UN history, helping to repair the country after the first Gulf War. But when he arrived in Iraq he had no idea that he would be involved in conflict resolution between the warring Kurdish parties, or that some of Saddam's nuclear scientist.