Word: craa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Mauritanian capital a great victory. They have brought Mauritania close to economic disaster with periodic attacks on the 450-mile rail line, which brings the country's iron ore to the sea. In the north, Polisario has also shut down the vast Moroccan-controlled phosphate deposit at Bu Craa by harassing the mine and its 60-mile conveyor belt to Atlantic Ocean docks at Aaiun. The attacks, ironically, have helped Morocco's domestic phosphate industry by keeping supplies short...
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